Matt Mahan
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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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As Democrats, we have to own the outcomes we're getting in this state.
And for too long, our reflexive answer has been, we need more revenue.
If we just have more money, we'll solve this problem.
I just don't believe that.
And I say that as the only current executive in this race,
I'm the mayor of the largest city in Northern California, San Jose.
And because of a quirk of history, we were built as a bedroom community for the job centers just north of us.
We actually have significantly lower revenue per capita than many other cities.
We're not a job center.
And so with Prop 13, our tax revenue goes up more slowly and it is smaller.
Our revenue is about a third less than some of our neighboring cities, and we're delivering
huge increases in sheltering people, getting housing built, reducing crime by thinking differently.
But it all starts with being willing to set a goal publicly and allow the public to hold you accountable for spending dollars in a way that actually achieves outcomes.
And that sounds so simple.
Most of your audience I've been listening for years are in the private sector, and it almost seems so obvious that why would you even need to say it?
But the truth is, as elected officials, we almost never set public goals where we can actually be held accountable.
Heaven forbid, in your next election, you might get called out for not actually reducing homelessness or reducing crime or getting housing built.
And instead, to your point, we pass bill after bill showing that we're doing something, and half the time, with the law of unintended consequences, we make it slower and more expensive to do the very thing
that we want.
Yeah.
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