{"id":64653,"date":"2026-03-31T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valleys-tech-world-takes-center-stage-in-state-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:30:06","slug":"silicon-valleys-tech-world-takes-center-stage-in-state-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valleys-tech-world-takes-center-stage-in-state-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s tech world takes center stage in state politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a wide-open governor\u2019s race to a bitter congressional contest, Santa Clara County has emerged as a key battleground in the tech industry\u2019s bid to control California politics \u2014 and shield billionaires from a wealth tax. Two electoral fights have shaped the \u201cValley of Heart\u2019s Delight\u201d into combative territory. In the 17th Congressional District, incumbent Rep. Ro Khanna is facing a challenge\u00a0from tech founder Ethan Agarwal, a fellow Democrat. Agarwal is an opponent of the ballot initiative to levy a one-time, 5% wealth tax on Californians with more than $1 billion in assets. He announced his bid after Khanna became&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valleys-tech-world-takes-center-stage-in-state-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a wide-open governor\u2019s race to a bitter congressional contest, Santa Clara County has emerged as a key battleground in the tech industry\u2019s bid to control California politics \u2014 and shield billionaires from a wealth tax. Two electoral fights have shaped the \u201cValley of Heart\u2019s Delight\u201d into combative territory. In the 17th Congressional District, incumbent &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-64653","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\/64653","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=64653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}