Matt Mahan

The governor does not have executive authority over the education department.

Huge problem.

We're one of just a dozen states who has that structure.

I don't know that it matters as long as – basically what Governor Newsom has proposed, which I agree with, is keep the office, but have it be a sort of watchdog, ombudsman, an advocate for parents.

Don't have it be the executive authority over an entire – More like a comptroller.

Yeah.

Monitor the spending to be the advocate for the parents and students.

But the governor is the chief executive of the state and the Department of Education ought to report directly up into the governor.

So that's one I totally agree with.

He sees the need for reform there.

On housing, we talked earlier.

the governor and I are completely aligned on the importance of interim solutions.

In fact, it's his state budgets that have helped fund the solutions that we've championed in San Jose.

Now, we've done it faster, better, more cost-effectively than any other city in the state, but we're aligned there.

He also recognizes the need for an alternative on treatment for addiction, for mental health, put forward things like CareCourt, Proposition 1, which expands treatment beds.

My

The area where I think we differ is I am very...

I'm very execution focused, and I have been willing to take on members of my own party, highly organized interests, in some cases disagree with the governor, the most prominent example being Prop 36, where I believe that if someone is repeatedly committing crime due to addiction, at some point, they should be given a clear choice between treatment and jail.

And that was an area where he and I just fundamentally disagreed.

That's a philosophic