{"id":63561,"date":"2026-02-11T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/conservative-heads-san-jose-mayors-governor-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:30:06","slug":"conservative-heads-san-jose-mayors-governor-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/conservative-heads-san-jose-mayors-governor-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative heads San Jose mayor\u2019s governor campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he\u2019s a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign could fuel fresh skepticism. Mahan\u2019s 23-year-old campaign manager, Adrian Rafizadeh, registered as a Republican in 2020, voter records show. Rafizadeh previously worked on\u00a0Mahan\u2019s mayoral campaign from 2021 to 2022, and as a policy analyst under Mahan as councilmember in 2021. Rafizadeh was also CEO of\u00a0Back to Basics, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group Mahan launched to tackle homelessness and development policy statewide, in 2024. That role is now filled by Mahan\u2019s former Chief&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/conservative-heads-san-jose-mayors-governor-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he\u2019s a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign could fuel fresh skepticism. Mahan\u2019s 23-year-old campaign manager, Adrian Rafizadeh, registered as a Republican in 2020, voter records show. Rafizadeh previously worked on\u00a0Mahan\u2019s mayoral campaign from &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}