{"id":63593,"date":"2026-02-13T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-lawmakers-criticize-mahan-endorse-opponent\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:30:05","slug":"silicon-valley-lawmakers-criticize-mahan-endorse-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-lawmakers-criticize-mahan-endorse-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley lawmakers criticize Mahan, endorse opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan\u2019s moderate campaign for California governor has fared well with billionaires and tech moguls. But two progressive state lawmakers in his own backyard are less enthused. Democratic Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Alex Lee are spurning Mahan\u2019s bid for statewide office as a \u201chandpicked\u201d vessel for big tech\u2019s movement to consolidate control over California. During a Friday online news conference, they counted Mahan \u2014 a fellow Democrat \u2014 among a line of well-connected, private school-educated politicians who have sought office in San Jose as a stepping stone to reach more powerful public roles. Recent campaign filings show&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-lawmakers-criticize-matt-mahan-endorse-opponent\/\" 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\u2019s moderate campaign for California governor has fared well with billionaires and tech moguls. But two progressive state lawmakers in his own backyard are less enthused. Democratic Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Alex Lee are spurning Mahan\u2019s bid for statewide office as a \u201chandpicked\u201d vessel for big tech\u2019s movement to consolidate control &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63594,"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-63593","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\/63593","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=63593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}