Matt Mahan
speaker
2,299 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 22 May
Matt Mahan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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...
start to tune into this race, hear what the candidates have to say.
I think people's common sense intuition on this is that, yes, we want to elect a Democrat who's going to fight for our values nationally, somebody who understands that Trump is an existential threat to our values and our way of life, and we need to fight through the courts and through the bully pulpit and do everything we can to offer an alternative.
But I also think they understand.
I think this is actually true across Democrats, independents, and moderate Republicans, that in California, for most of our challenges around public schools, housing costs, energy costs, we can't blame anybody else.
We need to take ownership of our mistakes.
We need to take control of our own destiny.
And we need to solve our problems because that's actually the best counter to this populist authoritarian strain in our politics.
Yeah, my view of it is there are a number of other things we should be doing to make the tax code fairer and to make sure that the wealthiest amongst us pay their fair share.
And as you've heard, I'm worried about regressive taxation, income inequality and opportunity gaps.
That's been kind of my whole career is thinking about those issues.
I
And I am not supportive of the wealth tax specifically because I don't think it'll work.
And I think it will actually ultimately burden middle class and working families in California because billionaires aren't going to pay this tax.
Half of them have already left the state since it's been proposed.
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