Observers say Mahan captured voters’ frustration with quality-of-life issues and offered a fresh Silicon Valley solution.
Ed Berger cast his vote for Cindy Chavez in the San Jose mayor’s race, but he wasn’t totally surprised by the political veteran’s narrow loss this past week to newcomer Matt Mahan.
To be sure, Mahan’s message was off-putting to many. Raj Jayadev, founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a civil rights and criminal justice reform advocacy group in San Jose, felt the Mahan campaign rhetoric demonized the poor and desperate, and was surprised most voters went along. Chavez even won over former city leaders with whom she’d sparred in years past, like Rose Herrera, the former District 8 City Council member and president of the United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County. Herrera said she was impressed with Chavez’s leadership during the pandemic, and wanted to see another woman mayor.
“I’ve never seen anybody connect like Matt did with normal people,” McEnery said. “I think it becomes a case of people saying, should I believe those ads or my own eyes?” “Matt was more definitive in his responses,” Kraus said. “I was impressed with Matt’s ability to communicate. It was how he projected himself was how he convinced me, and maybe that’s what convinced others.”
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