Joe Mathews

OPINION: Why are there so many governor candidates? My fellow Californians, it’s your fault. You adopted a “top two” system that puts all parties on the same ballot, Joe Mathews writes.

With 61 Names on the Ballot, Is the Best Choice No Choice at All?

That you’re a movie character is hardly disqualifying, since you’re no more fictional than the civic leadership in L.A.

ICE on the Streets? An Olympics That Could Bankrupt Us? Sharks in the Water? Let’s Ignore Them

My fellow Californians, I am no longer your best choice for lieutenant governor. The job which I long coveted, has simply become too important — and frightening.

My fellow Californians, I am no longer your best choice for lieutenant governor.

The salary is good, the duties are few, but there are new risks to being No. 2.

Contributing columnist Columnist Joe Mathews, pictured in 2018, when he still wanted to be lieutenant governor.

A Sweet Sinecure Has Become a Perilous Position in Poisonous Times

In today’s climate, ‘the chances are simply too high that the next (lieutenant governor) … will soon become governor’