With that, I hope an investigation follows these allegations come to some conclusion of facts instead of a one-sided report.

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$35 Million or Your Money Back: One Candidate’s Silicon Valley Lifeline

#MattMahan tries to buy the Governor's spot with his tech supporters $35 million by giving guarantees to donors. #JustSayNo #CAGubernatorialcampaign #CAGovernor

While Mahan highlights lives saved through these moves, critics continue to debate the long-term impact of shelter-first vs. permanent housing strategies in the Bay Area. 🛡️🏙️ #SanJose #MattMahan #HousingFirst #BayAreaNews #PublicPolicy

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He wants to go to a flat tax on vehicles instead of a gas tax! People buying gas guzzlers that pollute air more & weigh more pay same as others vehicles! It also removes an incentive to buy #EV. #CAGubernatorial #CAGovernor #CA #California

voteinorout on Instagram: "#GavinNewsom’s term ends soon, and #MattMahan, a Democrat candidate, is accused of serving corporate elites like #PeterThiel. Critics claim Mahan’s policies favor big tech and the wealthy over Californians’ needs. #Politics As #California gears up for elections, concerns rise over MattMahan'’ ties with billionaire PeterThiel, known for supporting right-wing figures. Mahan’s approach to issues like homelessness is criticized for prioritizing corporate interests over public welfare. — You do realize some people aren’t who they say they are, right? 😳 Follow @joshtheprogressive for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson" 125 likes, 7 comments - voteinorout on March 24, 2026: "#GavinNewsom’s term ends soon, and #MattMahan, a Democrat candidate, is accused of serving corporate elites like #PeterThiel. Critics claim Mahan’s policies favor big tech and the wealthy over Californians’ needs. #Politics As #California gears up for elections, concerns rise over MattMahan'’ ties with billionaire PeterThiel, known for supporting right-wing figures. Mahan’s approach to issues like homelessness is criticized for prioritizing corporate interests over public welfare. — You do realize some people aren’t who they say they are, right? 😳 Follow @joshtheprogressive for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

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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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Santa Clara County critical of plan to arrest homeless people Despite San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s claim his policy to arrest homeless people for refusing shelter is meant to connect them to treatment, there isn’t a plan for how it’s supposed to work. Since Mahan rolled out his “Responsibility to Shelter” policy in March, Santa Clara County officials and a former judge have pushed back on the plan that citing homeless people for trespassing will get them connected to the county’s Behavioral Health Court and into treatment. Mahan wants people who refuse offers of shelter three times within 18 months to be arrested on trespassing charges, but state law prohibits holding those who commit nonviolent misdemeanor charges in custody. Homeless people will be released within hours or days, thus preventing them from connecting to treatment. Couple this with the county’s massive shortage of mental health treatment beds — and a lengthy waitlist for not just unhoused people — and the mayor’s plan is on thin ice. “This proposal is misguided. It will not achieve its stated objective,” retired Judge Richard Loftus, who used to sit on the Behavioral Health Court, wrote in a letter to the San Jose City Council. “The justice system does not work the way this proposal contemplates.” In 1999, Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley launched the county’s behavioral health court, pairing close judicial oversight with intensive supervision and treatment services in lieu of jail. Offenders who go through this alternate court system are released on probation with a tailored treatment plan depending on level of need — whether that’s an acute psychiatric hospital, a residential treatment facility or an Assisted Outpatient Treatment program. But beds or services need to be available for the system to be successful. Every month, these individuals are required to appear in court and update the judge on their progress. For those who have committed a misdemeanor, that process can take a year — a felony charge could take up to two years. If the offender commits another crime or fails to appear for their court hearings within that period, they can be sent back to jail. **No beds, no treatment** A person’s referral to behavioral health court is a collaborative decision between the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, behavioral health treatment team and public defender or lawyer representing the defendant. But in order to access the system, the person must be in custody and go through the adjudication process — something that won’t happen if they are released immediately from jail. Supervising Deputy District Attorney Brandon Cabrera, who works in the behavioral health court, said it’s already extremely busy, serving more than 3,000 clients a year. In addition, the waitlist for people in jail to get into a treatment facility hovers between 100 to 125 people, Cabrera said. If there are no treatment beds available, the defendant remains in custody until a spot opens up. ### Related Stories May 8, 2025 #### San Jose mayor wants new police unit to arrest homeless people September 10, 2024 #### Santa Clara County courts redirect mental health cases August 30, 2022 #### Santa Clara County mental health system ‘fundamentally broken’ The county has 1,268 beds for various levels of treatment: 374 beds in locked facilities for acute need, 322 beds in skilled nursing facilities and mental health rehabilitation centers, 378 beds in residential adult facilities for people with mental health issues and 194 beds for people detoxing from substance use. In 2022, Santa Clara County Supervisors Susan Ellenberg and Otto Lee declared a mental health crisis in the county due to the lack of treatment beds and called for more investments and a coordinated response. Since then, the county has added 208 beds, including 53 acute in-patient beds at the San Jose Behavioral Health Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital. “Our biggest issue in the collaborative court system is space and capacity of beds,” Cabrera told San José Spotlight. In a May 12 joint statement to the city council, Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Bob Jonsen and County Executive James Williams said arresting and releasing people for low-level offenses is counterproductive — taking away resources and aggravating the criminal justice system. “We ask that you consider the impacts that these additional unnecessary and ineffective arrests and bookings will have on our community’s criminal justice system,” the letter said. “At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, city policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities.” Mahan shot back at the county, stating misdemeanor charges have historically been used to compel treatment. “Before Proposition 47, diversion programs paired with accountability proved effective at encouraging people to engage in treatment through the justice system,” Mahan wrote in a May 15 letter to the county. “Other states continue to use similar tools successfully.” When reached for comment, Mahan referred San José Spotlight to his letter. **Health care, not handcuffs** However, County Public Defender Damon Silver said he’s not familiar with any evidence-based research that shows arresting and criminalizing homelessness has been successful. Numerous studies indicate it makes matters worse. “Half-baked incarceration-based proposals inevitably exacerbate the problem and will likely result in catastrophic outcomes for this vulnerable population,” Damon told San José Spotlight. Mahan called for the county to reconsider its plans to get rid of the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team known as PERT, a model program where a licensed clinician pairs with a police officer to respond to mental health crises. The county has shifted its focus to the Trusted Response Urgent Support Team, a non-police, mobile crisis intervention team to helps deescalate mental health situations. Williams said there’s a reason why doctors aren’t placed in a 911 call center. “It’s far more effective to have clinicians in clinical settings, and instead give professional dispatchers the training, resources and tools to accurately and timely direct emergency calls,” the county executive told San José Spotlight. “As we have communicated to the city manager, we are available to offer expertise to assist the city on the challenges its dispatch center currently faces — only triaging 64% of medical emergencies and with a 16% abandoned call rate, which should alarm every resident.” Chris Ferry, who was director of mental health treatment in the county jail system for more than two decades, said Mahan’s policy is ill-conceived. “Arresting all these people is just like clearing the encampments,” Ferry told San José Spotlight. “They’re going to be back in whatever amount of time. I don’t see it having a potential for success.” _Contact Joyce Chu at[email protected] or @joyce_speaks on X. _ *[May 8, 2025]: May 8, 2025 *[September 10, 2024]: September 10, 2024 *[August 30, 2022]: August 30, 2022

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#MattMahan #SanJose - if the unhoused are not going for your programs, it's because your programs suck. Criminalizing the homeless is not the answer. Create better programs and do your job better. This is a reflection on your incompetency.

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