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🎙️ This Week on the So, Does It Matter? Podcast — Jon Slavet, Candidate for Governor of California
Welcome back to So, Does It Matter? The Podcast — where we sit down with the people who want to shape California’s future. I’m Jon Fleischman, publisher of So Does It Matter, and in this episode, I am joined by Jon Slavet, a Republican candidate for governor, bringing a career of private-sector leadership and business building into the political arena.
Slavet’s candidacy is rooted in his experience as a successful entrepreneur and executive who has spent decades navigating regulatory systems, managing large organizations, and growing companies in competitive environments. More recently, he launched the State of Gold podcast as a side project to explore California’s policy failures and cultural divides through conversations with state leaders and reform-minded thinkers. That platform gave him a new lens on Sacramento, but his core perspective is firmly grounded in the realities of the private sector.
In our conversation, we dig into why he decided to enter the gubernatorial race, what he believes is fundamentally broken in California’s economic and regulatory climate, and how his business experience informs his approach to restoring growth, accountability, and basic competence in state government. It is a substantive, wide-ranging discussion that gives listeners a clear sense of Jon Slavet’s priorities, governing philosophy, and the campaign he hopes to take statewide.
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Links mentioned in the show…
Slavet for Governor - Official Website.
Jon Slavet on X.
Slavet interviewed… ME.. on State of Gold here.
Slavet announcing his candidacy on CNN’s The Story Is…
Podcasts With Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton
The Other Republicans! A few weeks ago, we featured a podcast with Steve Hilton about his campaign for Governor. If you missed that, you can catch that here. And a couple of weeks ago, we published a podcast with Sheriff Chad Bianco on his gubernatorial run. You can watch that here.
One More Thing…
Below the paywall, you’ll find One More Thing — Jon shares a couple of great stories with us… One of which references the State of Gold Podcast episode he did with former Assembly Speaker and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Jr.
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