Robert BrownstoneIncumbent
Candidate for City Council Member, Half Moon Bay, District 1 · Incumbent
Robert Brownstone was first elected to the Half Moon Bay City Council in November 2018 and served as vice mayor in 2019 and mayor in 2025. He has a background in organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, and diversity and inclusion work for companies including Cisco, eBay, and Oracle. Earlier in his career, he directed the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's San Francisco office and worked for the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. He holds a law degree and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and has practiced state and federal employment discrimination law.
Positions in brief
Public sources describe a long record of council service and a professional background in civil rights and workplace culture, without a detailed 2026 issues platform.
Brownstone's public profile emphasizes his professional background in organizational effectiveness, employment law, and civil rights work rather than specific stated positions on core city-council issue areas for this race.
On the issues
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