{"id":223019,"date":"2026-03-17T01:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:55:28","slug":"a-good-week-for-alysa-liu-a-bad-week-for-matt-mahan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223019\/","title":{"rendered":"A good week for Alysa Liu, a bad week for Matt Mahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/arrow-3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alysa Liu<\/p>\n<p>Forget politicians. The buoyant young Olympic skating gold medalist, the true Queen of Oakland, is awarded the key to the city by Mayor Barbara Lee at a rally with 4,000 cheering fans outside City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/arrowdown-2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Mahan<\/p>\n<p>San Jose\u2019s mayor announced a run for governor in late January. But despite big fundraising, he\u2019s still stuck at 3%, according to two new polls, likely because of low name recognition in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/arrow-sideways-3.png\" \/>Dave Regan<\/p>\n<p>President of the SEIU-UHW union pushing the proposed billionaire\u2019s tax can celebrate that it has 50% support in polls this week. But billionaires only need to boost opposition a little more to kill it in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu Forget politicians. The buoyant young Olympic skating gold medalist, the true Queen of Oakland, is awarded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64618,40292,1453,4421,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-223019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alysa-liu","tag-billionaire-tax","tag-california-governors-race","tag-matt-mahan","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223019","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=223019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}