During his run for mayor in 2022, Matt Mahan played down his political inexperience by hyping up his business background – specifically his founding of two social media companies. He promised voters he would leverage his experience within the technology industry to implement new tools to enhance community engagement, streamline city operations, and provide better service to businesses and residents. …
Following an 8-year mayoral tenure defined more by his crises than successes, Sam Liccardo appears ready to try his luck running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Recently, an opinion poll began circulating testing former San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo‘s viability in a hypothetical race against incumbent congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who has represented San Jose in Congress for nearly 30…
Last week at San Jose City Hall, the mayor and city council held a pair of special meetings to make appointments to two vacant council seats. Political observers throughout the city rightly saw the appointments as the first big tests of Mayor Mahan‘s administration – would he be able to cobble together the necessary votes to appoint much needed allies…