Updated: September 4, 2026
Mai Vang will fight corruption so Congress starts working for working families instead of enriching Doris Matsui and her billionaire friends.
Summary: City Councilmember Mai Vang is the daughter of refugees and a teacher fighting to get corporate money out of politics, stop data centers in California, and finally ban insider trading that lets members of Congress make millions. Raised in a family that relied on SNAP and Medicaid, Mai knows what it's like when Washington rigs the system against regular people. Mai is married to a son of Mexican immigrants and is the only candidate endorsed by the Sacramento Bee.
In contrast, voters need to see on the go, read, and if resources allow, see that Doris Matsui is a billionaire-class establishment politician who has been in DC for decades, enriching herself by trading $38 million* in stocks and serving on committees that oversee companies she's directly invested in.
Doris Matsui has not only taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate PAC money from big tech and utility companies profiting off data centers, but stands to make millions from data centers because her billionaire husband started a utility company that builds them.†
Proof Points
Corruption:
Mai Vang knows Washington is corrupt. DC politicians in both parties rig the system to help their friends, family, and donors and we end up paying the price. That's why Mai supports a ban on members of Congress taking gifts from lobbyists or trading stocks while serving in public office. She will also work to get corporate money out of politics entirely by banning dark money super PACs
Doris Matsui has traded $38 million in stocks while serving as a member of Congress, helping her become one of the richest people in Washington.* She even served on committees that oversee companies she's directly invested in. She has also taken campaign contributions from ICE contractors¶, AIPAC, and companies profiting off of data centers.§ After marrying a DC billionaire and becoming one of Washington's richest individuals, she visited California less often and never without bodyguards.
Data Centers:
Mai Vang knows that data centers are driving up costs for regular Californians, damaging the environment and infrastructure, and over-consuming natural resources. That's why she will fight for a moratorium against constructing any new data centers until real safeguards are in place that ban data centers and utility companies from passing off higher costs onto regular people, require data centers to pay for any damage they do to the energy grid or other infrastructure, and hold data centers accountable for any damage they do to the environment and drinking water.
Doris Matsui has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate PAC money from big tech and utility companies profiting off data centers. Even worse, she stands to make millions because her new billionaire husband started a utility company that is making money from and pushing data centers when they pass off rising energy costs onto regular people.† That's why in 2022 she voted to fast-track data center construction and to allow data centers to bypass environmental regulations to build them faster.‡
Core Goals
In weeks 6 - end, voters need to see contrast messaging on the go.
In weeks 6 - end, voters need to read contrast messaging.
If resources allow, in weeks 3 - end voters should see messaging that mirrors the campaign’s messaging on broadcast and cable.
