{"id":1007207,"date":"2026-05-07T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007207"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:56:46","slug":"tech-is-betting-on-a-former-executive-in-the-race-for-california-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/tech-is-betting-on-a-former-executive-in-the-race-for-california-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech is betting on a former executive in the race for California governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One tech investor called him &#8220;the only sane&#8221; Democrat in the race for California governor. Others have dumped millions to boost his campaign, even paying for a Super Bowl ad to introduce him to voters. He&#8217;s against a proposed billionaires&#8217; tax that has the state&#8217;s wealthiest residents threatening an exodus. <\/p>\n<p>San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is tech&#8217;s favourite candidate to be the next leader of California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tech investor called him &#8220;the only sane&#8221; Democrat in the race for California governor. Others have dumped millions to boost his campaign, even paying for a Super Bowl ad to introduce him to voters. He&#8217;s against a proposed billionaires&#8217; tax that has the state&#8217;s wealthiest residents threatening an exodus. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is tech&#8217;s favourite candidate to be the next leader of California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007231,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007207\/revisions\/1007231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}