Sam Mahood

Team @CapAdvocacy. @AlexPadilla4CA alum. Bay Area sports fan living in Sacramento. All views my own.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's a conspiracy against you/your candidate!

Just because you didn't know about a long standing election law doesn't mean it's a dirty trick against you/your candidate!

Let's get started!

[David Shor @davidshor]

This I think is the big thing that people who are paranoid about on this issue do not understand: both the Democratic and Republican party have invested literally hundreds of millions of dollars into sophisticated data operations that constantly are looking for evidence of malfeasance to forward to their well funded army of lawyers who are ready to file injunctions at a moment's notice.

Whenever one side tries to do something sneaky (IE, when a GOP sheriff purposely purged every black voter off the rolls in 2008, or in 2022 when someone tried to do actual ballot harvesting), the other side (and also data journalists and outside groups!) notices it very quickly because there actually is a massive data trail on these things that outsiders have no idea about.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election — including from the President.

This explainer is worth a watch.

And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

Vintage Steph. Vintage Draymond. Championship DNA. Incredible, incredible game.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

It's already illegal to vote if you're not a citizen.

They're trying to convince us there are droves of people who are willing to risk deportation and the abuse that we are seeing from ICE to vote illegally.

It defies credulity and it's simply not true.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NFL REDZONE JUST HAD ITS FIRST COMMERCIAL (TERRIBLE. SO DISTRACTING!!!) I AM VERY SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING BANNING THEM FOREVER. TRUMP LET THIS HAPPEN. TOTAL DISASTER!! I, AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (MANY SAY “THE FIXER”), WILL CLEAN IT UP. ESPN, A GREAT AMERICAN COMPANY, STOP THE COMMERCIALS! THANK YOU!!! — GCN

[California Common Cause @CACommonCause]

@AdamSchiff backs the CA Fair Elections Act (SB 42)!
Repealing the ban on public financing means:

✅ Big money out of politics
✅ More transparency
✅ Voters’ voices put first

Let’s put power back where it belongs, with the people.

#SB42

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

I worked for Alex Padilla for nearly a decade. There is no one more decent, respectful, and level headed. To say his treatment today was uncalled for would be an understatement. It made me sick to my stomach—and it should be an outrage to all Americans.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

@CapitolCorridor @ucdvolkie You clearly can send texts about late trains because I got one after the train departed on Wednesday night (and after I bailed). Telling me how delayed a train is after it departs is pretty useless. And guess what—my train today is delayed and I received no text. Embarrassing.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

@ucdvolkie Pretty ridiculous that @CapitolCorridor has provided NO proactive communications to riders about this delay.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

The 49ers’ Special Teams play is a joke without a punch line.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

It’s @politicoca official—I’m back in Sacramento and joining the team at @CapAdvocacy!

I will be forever grateful that @AlexPadilla4CA took a chance on me, naming me his Press Secretary when I was barely 25 years old. The past decade was an incredible, unforgettable ride.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

Bring Raheem Mostert or Jeff Wilson Jr. home this week. Guerendo is not viable long term.

[MIKE GRIER stan account @AndyKHLiu]

FRED WARNER DPOY!!!!!

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

It was a party. It was a funeral. It was beautiful watching the Oakland A’s win one last game at the Coliseum. It didn’t have to end this way.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The Oakland A’s were killed by greed. Do not allow the people responsible for this to spin it any other way. John Fisher did not have to move this team. Major League Baseball and its owners did not need to be complicit in it. This was a choice. A wrong one. History will sneer.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Larry Beil of KGO (Bay Area's ABC affiliate) read "a great work of fiction," AKA John Fisher's letter to Oakland A's fans.

Then strongly reacted to it.

Well worth the time.

(H/T @LastDiveBar)

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

He’ll always be Clay Wood “The Magician” to OG A’s fans. I can still hear Fosse clear as day in my head talking about so many of the characters that made Oakland A’s baseball great.

[Clay Wood @oaklandturf]

Expecting a huge range of emotions this week! Thank you to all of the vendors and their support staff for helping keep our grass green and dirt solid for the last 30 years! @WestCoastTurf @JohnDeere @belkorpag @EwingOutdoor @Irritrol_ #toroirrigation @DuraEdge @Turfaceproducts

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

@Snack_Memories Growing up in the Bay Area in the 90s/2000s, I remember there also being a 49ers ice cream (with mini-chocolate footballs) that was either from Dreyer’s or Safeway.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

@jfkooAN I remember this was a radio only game and for some reason I followed only on the online game cast. The final “in play run(s)” explanation took FOREVER to load. One of my all-time favorite random A’s regular season wins.

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

Photographic proof

[Sam Mahood @Sam_Mahood]

As President of the Davis College Democrats I was one of the few in the room for the AG debate that day. Who knew we would witness a moment that has had a ripple effect on the trajectory of American politics. Elections matter. Campaigns matter. Candidates matter.

[Shane Goldmacher @ShaneGoldmacher]

NEW: The 47 Seconds That Saved Kamala Harris’s Political Career

My piece on one of the most crucial and long-forgotten episodes in the arc of her political career — in a race she nearly lost.
https://t.co/Mbl39tZwtm