{"id":105465,"date":"2025-12-22T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105465\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:40:11","slug":"san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-blasts-gavin-newsom-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/105465\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan blasts Gavin Newsom on crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan<\/a> is giving Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s California woeful marks on homelessness, drugs and crime, saying the state has failed miserably on the issues voters care most about.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just grade government in California. It\u2019s definitely not an A \u2014 we\u2019d be lucky to get a C right now,\u201d Mahan told Fox40\u2019s Nikki Laurenzo.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The law-and-order Dem knocked Newsom for odd decisions<\/a> on public safety and homelessness during an interview on Inside California Politics.<\/p>\n

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is giving Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s California woeful marks on homelessness. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a pretty big debate apparently on things like Prop. 36 and recovery housing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The mayor, a frequent Newsom critic, knocked the governor for vetoing a bill that could have made it easier for local governments to use state housing funds for badly needed sober living homes. <\/p>\n

The bill, AB 255, would have tweaked California\u2019s controversial \u201cHousing First\u201d policy \u2014 which requires homeless people<\/a> to be granted permanent housing regardless of drug use or addiction. Supporters say that addicts need housing first to kick bad habits, but critics argue that the policy has turned state-funded housing into drug dens and made it harder for well-intentioned tenants to stay clean.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just want to know, practically, why that isn\u2019t a good idea because we\u2019re funding a Salvation Army site here that\u2019s getting amazing results and I think the state ought to help us in offering that as an option,\u201d Mahan told the outlet. <\/p>\n

Newsom, in his veto message<\/a>, claimed the sober housing bill would be costly and duplicative.<\/p>\n

Mahan has flirted with a run for governor, telling Laurenzo he hasn\u2019t \u201cruled it out\u201d amid a lackluster Democratic field<\/a> that includes Rep. Eric Swalwell, Rep. Katie Porter, former attorney general Xavier Becerra, ex-LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. <\/p>\n

The Democratic mayor knocked the gov. for odd decisions on public safety and homelessness. San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Asked if he and Newsom have \u201cbeef,\u201d Mahan \u2014 who\u2019s slammed Newsom in the past for grandstanding social media antics<\/a> \u2014\u00a0called him a talented political leader. <\/p>\n

But the San Jose mayor also hit Newsom for initially refusing to fund Prop. 36, an anti-crime measure that passed with 68% of the vote in November 2024. <\/p>\n

Newsom, in his veto message, claimed the sober housing bill would be costly and duplicative.
REUTERS<\/p>\n

The proposition gives prosecutors more leeway to charge drug and theft-related crimes as felonies, but Newsom \u2014 who opposed Prop. 36 \u2014 did not include<\/a> any direct funding for it in his May 2025 budget proposal. <\/p>\n

State legislators pushed back and partial funding was included in the final bill. <\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is giving Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s California woeful marks on homelessness, drugs and crime,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,723,457,1493,13,88,90,89,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-105465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gavin-newsom","11":"tag-homelessness","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}