Phil Mateer
Bay Area political insider and journalist; KCBS Radio commentator and ABC7/KGO-TV political analyst, longtime co-author of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Matier & Ross" column.
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Oct 20, 2026
Steve ScottHOST
What is pointing voters to believe that, that big tech has gone more conservative?
Phil MateerGUEST
You know, when tech started in the Bay Area, it was considered as sort of a libertine, liberal, socially conscious, new type of economy and new type of products out there.
Phil MateerGUEST
Elon Musk was being praised for revolutionizing the electrical vehicle market and getting those cars on the road and sort of kicking off the whole EV boom.
Phil MateerGUEST
Zuckerberg was leading the nation in sort of this is a new way to communicate and it's open to everybody.
Phil MateerGUEST
You can be a hot item for a while, and then you sort of drop off, and then maybe you come back.
Phil MateerGUEST
But Gavin Newsom has a couple of things that he has to deal with, not the least of which is the state of the state of California.
Phil MateerGUEST
They're talking about California gas prices, housing prices, utility costs, just basically saying that you want to turn your state or the nation into California.