Matt Mahan for Governor - Getting California Back to Basics

A Better Future for California Starts with
Getting Our Government Back to Basics

A Better Future for
California Starts with
Getting Our Government
Back to Basics

A Better Future
for California
Starts with
Getting Our
Government
Back to Basics

Join Mayor Matt Mahan’s campaign to make California work for all of us by
holding our leaders accountable, putting toxic politics aside, and making sure
government at every level is working smarter to solve our problems and uphold
our values. Mahan is running to unite Californians around the basic common-
sense ideas that build a better future for every family.

Join Mayor Matt Mahan’s campaign to make California work for all of us by holding our leaders accountable, putting toxic politics aside, and making sure government at every level is working smarter to solve our problems and uphold our values. Mahan is running to unite Californians around the basic common- sense ideas that build a better future for every family.

California is a great place to live
but it is getting tougher all the time.

California is a great
place to live but it
is getting tougher
all the time.

With accountability and true boldness, we can make California affordable again, starting with building the housing we can afford by cutting fees and regulations, using surplus government land, and dramatically lowering the cost of construction.

The number one way we can make California an easier place to live is to dramatically reduce the cost of homes and rents — which is within our reach if we work smarter and hold ourselves accountable to results.

A great state brings everyone indoors. We can do that, as Mahan has worked to do as Mayor, by building safe and decent shelter and then requiring that our homeless neighbors use it when available.

Homelessness should not be a choice we accept. It should be a tragedy we end. And we can do more than save billions of tax dollars by ending street homelessness — we will save lives.

A compassionate California should help people who are a danger to themselves and others by requiring treatment for the drug, alcohol, and mental health conditions that lead to repeated arrests and trap people on the streets.

It simply isn’t humane to let so many people live and die on our streets or hurt themselves and others. The era of mass treatment needs to start now. And with mass treatment we will make our state safer, cleaner, and kinder.

We can address our needs for improved health, housing and public education without asking our people to pay more in taxes. Instead, let’s require government to spend the money they have now better before they ask us to pay more.

California is one of the highest taxed states in the nation and independent analysts have clearly identified billions in fraud and waste. Let’s make government accountable to results, root out the fraud, and require state, county, and local governments to do better by working together before we ask hard-pressed taxpayers to pay even more in taxes.

Let’s remember that a better future that lifts more Californians into the middle class starts with lifting up our public schools. Matt Mahan is a former school teacher who understands the problem isn’t our kids – it is adults who won’t hold our kids, our schools, and our state to the highest academic standards.

Let’s bring back the SAT, bring back the science of reading, and bring back the best public schools, colleges and universities in the nation.

Fighting for California values means fixing what’s broken. That means delivering outcomes that actually improve people’s lives: more housing people can afford, fewer neighbors living on our streets, and a government that does better with what it has, before asking hard-pressed taxpayers to pay even more.

Matt Mahan believes the strongest resistance is results – not just more rhetoric.

California needs a fighter, and the best fighter is someone who knows how to fix what’s broken. When we focus on solutions instead of slogans, we don’t just fight back, we move forward.

Matt Mahan is the
Democratic Mayor of San
Jose who has dramatically
lowered the level of street
homelessness, made his city
the safest big city in America,
and successfully focused on
attracting middle-class jobs.

He believes we can bring all Californians of good will
together to address massive challenges like the cost of
housing, energy, our budget deficit, homelessness and
other pressing concerns. His overriding value is to put
pragmatic and successful policies first so we can build a
better California together.

He believes we can bring all Californians of good will together to address massive challenges like the cost of housing, energy, our budget deficit, homelessness and other pressing concerns. His overriding value is to put pragmatic and successful policies first so we can build a better California together.

A Better California Starts
With Getting Back to Basics.

PAID FOR BY MAHAN FOR GOVERNOR 2026. FPPC# 1486858