Candidate for
Councilmember; City of Mountain View

Rosemary Stasek was elected to the Mountain View City Council in 1996 and currently serves as the City's Mayor. She chairs the Council's Technology Committee and serves on the Council Procedures Committee, the Appointments Review Committee and various ad hoc committees. She represents the City at the Santa Clara County Cities Association, and the South Bay Military Affairs Council. She is a member of Women in Municipal Government for the National League of Cities and serves on the Arts, Recreation and Culture committee for the US Conference of Mayors.

Stasek was born and raised in Northeast Pennsylvania and graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. She was a Dean's List student and manager of the football and wrestling teams.

Stasek has worked for the past decade in the computer industry as a systems administrator, network engineer and currently web developer. She has worked for prominent high tech firms in Silicon Valley including WebTV, Netscape, Cisco, 3Com, Oracle, and Lucent. She spent six years as an instructor at DeAnza Community College teaching Introduction to Microcomputer Networks.

In addition to serving on the Mountain View City Council, Stasek has a broad history of political involvement, especially women's issues activism. In 1989 she co-founded California Catholics for Free Choice and serves as state director. She has served on the Board of Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte and the Santa Clara County Commission on the Status of Women. Her honors include being named a Distinguished Woman of the 14th Congressional District, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights Freedom of Religion Award and the Alameda National Women's Political Caucus Pro-Choice Champion Award. She is a member of the California State Democratic Central Committee.

In 1999 she was selected by the Secretary of Defense to participate in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference which took her to military installations across the country and aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific ocean. She broadened her knowledge of military affairs, especially issues involving women serving in the Armed Forces. She now serves as a member of the US Air Force Space Commanders Group.

Stasek's interest in international issues has taken her to Nepal, Ecuador, France, Britain, Holland, Germany, The Czech and Slovak Republics, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, and Venezuela. She has traveled to Cuba as a member of a special women's delegation. She is currently learning Spanish.