Thursday, January 29, 2026

MATT MAHAN IS IN THE RACE

By Bob Walsh

 

San José Mayor Matt Mahan
 

Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, has just announced that he is running for Governor in the formerly great state of California.

He is apparently going to try, probably with some success, to position himself as a moderate, or at least as not a psychotic, and hope that will get him into one of the top two spots when the primary is over.  

I am not sure how much of a moderate he truly is, but compared to the other Democrat-Socialists in the race he probably is.  He is a successful businessman and reasonably successful large city mayor.  He is not a "defund the police" nutter and he seems to recognize that chasing wealthy people and successful businesses out of the state is not a good overall fiscal strategy.  

There is less than five months until the California primary.  

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