Grindr CEO Backs “Moderate Dem” For California Gov

Politico reports: Grindr CEO George Arison tries to avoid discussing politics. But he and the popular gay dating app he leads are making a play for influence both in Sacramento and Washington. Grindr recently announced it was hosting a buzzy party as part of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner weekend. And now Arison, … The post Grindr CEO Backs “Moderate Dem” For California Gov appeared first on Joe.My.God..

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Grindr CEO Backs “Moderate Dem” For California Gov

Politico reports:

Grindr CEO George Arison tries to avoid discussing politics. But he and the popular gay dating app he leads are making a play for influence both in Sacramento and Washington. Grindr recently announced it was hosting a buzzy party as part of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner weekend. And now Arison, like many of California’s tech executives, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to be the next governor.

Mahan, a moderate Democrat, is making an aggressive fundraising and advertising push after Eric Swalwell dropped out of the governor’s race and resigned from Congress amid allegations of sexual assault. Arison, however, says he’s been a fan of Mahan for years.

The longtime Bay Area resident sent Mahan’s campaign a $7,000 check this week and expressed his increasing frustration with the state’s direction in an interview with POLITICO Magazine. “I like living here for professional reasons. I like living here for the environment,” Arison said, echoing sentiments from a politically reawakened Silicon Valley. “But I hate living here for the fact that we have a state government that is quite bigger than the one a decade ago that provides less services.”

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Mahan is currently polling at 5%.

Arison, who was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, is also the founder of the taxi payment app Curb.

When he became Grindr CEO in 2022, he faced a backlash over resurfaced tweets praising Trump and then-Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

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