Thrilled to see Ellen Kamei running. She is smart, reasonable, and deeply rooted in Mountain View. Go Ellen!

Great options for the Council seats so far. The challenge will be how to choose among them!

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Let’s not get carried away about for quality candidates! I am excited to see Ellen running but for Lenny you got to be kidding me!! He is the main reason our RV problem is so bad! Lenny wants to make MTN VIEW the BERKLEY of the area. Sickening!

@Really Bruce, Berkeley evicted their waterfront RV's last month. I am keeping my eyes open for the new arrivals in Mountain View....

We need council candidates who will slow down the out of control development with no infrastructure to support it. I will NOT be voting for Siegel or Showwalter who support "build baby build"!

Time to change the balance of power on MV City Council, the only way to do that is to elect new council members who care about the quality of life and are not beholden to developers. The high-density luxury rentals going up all over the city serve as transient housing for tech workers, they will not make their homes here, they will stay a few years and move on to a real community.

Sorry Ellen - no housing support - no vote.

I was born on July 19, 1959 and grew up in Mountain View. My Dad was foreman at Ozawa's Nursery at 235 Ortega Ave. In 1967 we moved to Santa Clara but I always consider M.V. as my Hometown.

Great article about City Counsel Race in Nov 2018. I agree that is time to elect new CC's who care about M.V.
I know Lucas R. and Ellen K. Both are smart, young community involved citizens of M.V. Both would make great CC's in M.V.

I always go back to M.V. to visit. I miss Linda's fast food place. Google has totally changed M.V. Which is good and bad!

Its great that M.V. will have some great candidates to choose from in Nov. Good Luck Lucas and Ellen.

As someone who knocked on doors in the 2014 race, I remember nine candidates for City Council, not eight!

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1. Showalter topped all the candidates with 16.57 percent of the vote.
2. Ken Rosenberg held 14.79 percent
3. Lenny Siegel had 13.31 percent.
4. Lisa Matichak with 11.42 percent.
5. Greg Unangst with 10.70 percent.
6. Ellen Kamei with 10.28 percent.
7. Margaret Capriles with 9.85 percent.
8. Mercedes Salem at 6.75 percent.
9. Jim Neal with 6.32 percent.

I know the Google employees are fed up with the housing situation. They will not vote for anyone who is not pro housing and definitely not anyone who is against north bayshore development.

Ellen Kamei has sure worked for a lot of politicians. Why so many? In any event, figure Ellen this time around knows plenty about local issues. That is a plus. The question then is WHERE DOES SHE STAND SPECIFICALLY on, for example, (1) whether voters should sign the "sneaky" petition to repeal Measure V, (2) what she would do, if anything, to stop the residential highrises (without even parking for the new residents) that would be authorized by the enactment of state Senate Bill 827 (or a similar bill), and (3) whether to halt the waste of city funds and other resources on a school site in the San Antonio area that the Los Alto School District may (and surely will) use to house Bullis Charter School (not a neighborhood school). Maybe the candidate could start her campaign by addressing those 3 issues. Go ahead. Post.