"Matt Mahan didn't set out to be a scold and pain in Gavin Newsom's backside. He doesn't mean to sound like a wrathful Republican when he criticizes one-party rule in Sacramento. Or a disgruntled independent when he assails a Democratic establishment that's become, as he sees it, a club of insiders who take care of each other and mostly go along to get along."
"Maybe because that's my diagnosis of it, said the 42-year-old San Jose mayor, I have tried very consciously to not fall into that trap of just wanting to be liked. He is, Mahan insists, a Democrat to his core, his roots sunk deep in the loamy soil of working-class Watsonville, where, over the mountains and light years from Silicon Valley, he grew up the son of a mail carrier and a high school teacher."
Matt Mahan criticizes one-party rule in Sacramento and calls out a Democratic establishment he views as an insiders' club that mostly goes along. He insists on Democratic identity rooted in working-class Watsonville, where he grew up as the son of a mail carrier and a high school teacher. He emphasizes results over intentions, warning that performative rhetorical fights yield short-lived appeal and do not produce solutions or majorities. Mahan says many Democrats feel frustrated and powerless. He rode a bus four hours daily to attend a college-prep academy on a work-study scholarship he called his 'golden ticket.'
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