#CentristSludge
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#ShitLibs, or not liberal at all...

#Golden #Cuellar #Landsman #Vargas
you needn't bother running for Congress again
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👉 Vote 'em Out!

Conservative heads San Jose mayor’s governor campaign **Getting yourTrinity Audio player ready...** --- San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he’s a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign could fuel fresh skepticism. Mahan’s 23-year-old campaign manager, Adrian Rafizadeh, registered as a Republican in 2020, voter records show. Rafizadeh previously worked on Mahan’s mayoral campaign from 2021 to 2022, and as a policy analyst under Mahan as councilmember in 2021. Rafizadeh was also CEO of Back to Basics, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group Mahan launched to tackle homelessness and development policy statewide, in 2024. That role is now filled by Mahan’s former Chief of Staff Jim Reed, who took over the organization in December. Rafizadeh acknowledged the Republican registration and said he later switched to Democrat before he knew Mahan was considering running for governor. He didn’t answer questions about when exactly he switched parties — or why. “Mayor Mahan never asked me about which party I belonged to,” Rafizadeh told San José Spotlight. “Just about if I could help him run the kind of thoughtful campaign that focused on solutions to big problems like ending street homelessness, making every neighborhood safe, building more homes and making housing more affordable and lifting more families into the middle class.” ### Related Stories February 4, 2026 #### San Jose mayor spars with gubernatorial candidates during debate July 29, 2025 #### San Jose mayor and Trump aligned in homeless response April 11, 2025 #### Are San Jose voters rejecting mayor’s agenda? Rafizadeh has not been shy about his conservative leanings in public. But like Mahan, he’s made frequent centrist gestures, such as aligning with liberals on the issue of climate change. Mahan didn’t respond to requests for comment. Santa Clara County Democratic Party Chair Bill James said Rafizadeh’s involvement in Mahan’s run for governor is no surprise. “The campaign manager is a former staffer of his,” James told San José Spotlight. “To me, it’s less a question of, ‘Why is Matt Mahan picking a Republican to be his campaign manager?’ The more revealing question is, ‘Why are Republicans drawn to work for Matt Mahan?'” James’ conservative counterpart doesn’t claim Mahan either. Santa Clara County Republican Party Chair Dave Johnson has publicly cautioned fellow conservatives against buying Mahan’s moderate image — arguing Mahan is too liberal. “Mahan is no moderate, no matter who is running his campaign,” Johnson told San José Spotlight. In prior years, Mahan’s candidacy for local office has been supported by conservative groups such as the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women. He was a special guest during his mayoral campaign at a Bay Area GOP fundraising dinner focused on “taking back San Jose” in 2022. After the publication of this story, Mahan told this news outlet he was listed as an attendee without his permission and did not attend. Mahan not only aligned with California Republicans on Proposition 36 — a voter approved initiative to create harsher penalties for petty theft — but helped lead the charge for it. He appeared for TV news interviews across the state to cast doubt on his would-be predecessor, Gov. Gavin Newsom, over attempts to strategize California’s resistance to President Donald Trump. The mayor of Northern California’s largest city has pushed back at being labeled a conservative. He has instead chalked his platform up to political pragmatism. He’s pushed to tie city employee pay raises to performance. He is against a proposed billionaire tax in California, arguing it would drive billionaires out of state and hurt tax bases supporting critical public services. President Donald Trump has mirrored Mahan’s platform on homelessness with an executive order in July calling for an end to “housing first” policies in favor of forced treatment. Mahan created a policy to arrest homeless people who repeatedly refuse shelter, arguing that by arresting them, the city could then turn them over to the county’s behavioral court system or a treatment center. Mahan has similarly dismissed housing first policies by prioritizing temporary shelter construction over permanent affordable housing. “My politics are not center right,” Mahan previously told San José Spotlight last year. “I’m a lifelong Democrat who worked for (former state lawmaker) Jim Beall and has volunteered on most Democratic presidential campaigns and I hold progressive views on a range of issues from taxation and climate change to LGBTQ rights.” _Contact Brandon Pho at[email protected] or @brandonphooo on X._ _Story updated Feb. 12 at 9:26 a.m. Original story published Feb. 11 at 8:30 a.m._ *[February 4, 2026]: February 4, 2026 *[July 29, 2025]: July 29, 2025 *[April 11, 2025]: April 11, 2025

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STOP VOTING FOR ANY DEMOCRATS THAT IS AIPAC FUNDED. THEY ARE NOT REAL PROGRESSIVES & DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICANS!

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Zero @democrats.senate.gov fought to date. @democraticparty.bsky.social has proof to remove based on Treason with Russia; Foreign Election Interference (2024); nation-wide Hybrid-Hacking of OUR VOTE(2024).
Data doesn’t lie; #FakeDemocrats do. @aoc.bsky.social

Exactly this… now we’re seeing #GOP (many of whom are quitting) trying to save their reputations w fake statements in support #Democracy

We’ll see same from the #FakeDemocrats who pretend they’re supporting Dem voters. @chuckschumer.com comes to mind but there are more

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Know the assignment. #VoteThemOUT #traitors #fakeDemocrats #ACA #Shameful

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The fucking Democrat establishment is racist, Islamophobic, and blood thirsty demons. They love Republicans and kiss their asses.

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Any democrats that want to protect Trump can just go over to the other side and put on your new red hat. #fakedemocrats

Is this you pretending to be a Democrat?!! Can’t believe you stand behind the illegal Iran bombing under false pretenses like Bush-era idiots?!! What a disgrace you have turned out to be! Don’t forget your MAGA moron hat! #fakeDemocrats #impeachtrumpSycophants #ConstitutionalTraitor

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Dear Democrats, do not ask for another penny of support until you
PERMANENTLY REMOVE:
Chuck Schumer
Dick Durbin
Catherine Cortez Masto
Maggie Hassan
John Fetterman
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Kirsten Gillibrand
Jeanne Shaheen
Angus King

100%COMPLIANCE
THIS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!
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THANK YOU, AOC & BERNIE!
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PRIMARY FOR EVERY ONE OF THESE TURNCOAT MOTHERFUCKERS!
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Prepare to be primaried.
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#GavinNewsom is full of crap.

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Democrats kiss the asses of Republicans and Ronald Reagan.

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Democrats pretending to be real Democrats. But Democrats act like Republicans.

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Cowards. Every last one of you pathetic excuses of democrats. While an orange f*ck is tearing apart our country, one single person stood up for the people during that horrendous "speech," and you turn your backs on him?

Here's what I think of that 🖕

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Pressure Democrats enough. If they start to criticize you, they are Republicans.

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