Matt Mahan

It's a platform that says that the answer to our problems is more revenue.

It's revenue, revenue, revenue, as Representative Swalwell's top three goals.

And look, we need to think differently.

What I'm offering is an approach that's been working in Northern California's largest city.

I call it getting back to basics.

It's focusing on fewer things, the things that are most foundational to opportunity and quality of life for everyone.

It's being humble about what government can actually do, not thinking that the answer to every problem is more revenue in another government program.

It's being radically more transparent and accountable about how we spend dollars and rooting everything in results or measurable outcomes.

And just bringing a new politics of pragmatism as an antidote to this incredibly destructive populism we're seeing on the right and the left that really risks the democratic, lowercase d, democratic project of this country.

And I think that California has, throughout its history, been the innovative state that has led the way.

and change the world and i am hopeful that californians are ready for a different kind of politics that focuses on problem solving i jumped in this race because all of the other candidates across the spectrum had already been in for a year and i didn't hear anyone talking speaking honestly about our problems and how to solve them and i thought that i had a unique

voice in this race.

And we're seeing that.

It's a short runway, but as I travel around the state, go to see the sewage crisis in the Tijuana River on the border that shut down all the beaches down there, walk all to Dena, or go through the Tenderloin in San Francisco, people are responding because all they really want is for their tax dollars to be used responsibly.

They want their government to work.

They want their life to get better when they send so much of their money to their government.

And that's my commitment.

Thanks, David.

I enjoyed it.

Thanks for having me, Sam.