Matt Mahan

We make sure people have access to health care.

But we need to upgrade everything.

the, the platform, because we're still trying to do things the way we did in the 20th century, where the answer to every problem is, if we just have more tax revenue and more programs, we're going to fix it.

And at some point, we've got to make government smarter, more responsive, more efficient.

We're, we're the party that needs government to work.

We believe in government as a force for good.

That's

Many of the folks on the other side of the aisle, if you will, are more interested in just kind of hobbling and shrinking and making government as small as it can be.

And that's kind of an endless debate.

But for where I'm at, it's not about making government smaller or bigger.

It's especially in a state with the very high tax burden we have in California.

Let's give people value for their dollars.

Let's make sure we're making people's lives better, right?

So I just, yeah, I grew up in the Democratic Party.

I believe in the core values.

I think the party is salvageable, but I'm running as a different kind of Democrat to try to make the case for a different kind of politics, whereas my opponents in the race are kind of offering more of the same.

I have a lot of faith in the common sense of the voters, of the people of California.

I've knocked on well over 10,000 doors.

I have spoken with tens of thousands of people over my six years now in public life.

And I think when people...