An Honest Economy
For All of CA-2
Your groceries cost too much. Your doctor is 90 miles away. Your town lost its mill and nobody came back. Gregory Burgess is running a "Show Your Work" campaign — 38 drafted bills you can read today, covering every county, every problem, before you cast a single vote.
- Third-generation Marin County native, grew up in Mill Valley
- Master's in Public Health — food security, environmental health, climate
- CDC Quarantine Public Health Officer
- 30 years behavioral health — group homes, homeless services
- Special Education Teacher · Clinical Engineer · US Postal Carrier
- Teamster · USPS Union Member · Teachers' Union Grievance Rep
I Want Your Vote, Not Your Money
$100,000 budget cap · no corporate donors · no PAC money · $100 donations at a timeOther candidates make promises. I wrote the legislation. Every bill is public. Every fiscal note is real. Read them all — then decide.
Four Issues. Real Legislation.
These aren't talking points. They're drafted bills — with constitutional authority statements, fiscal analysis, and sunset clauses — covering every challenge CA-2 faces.
Rural Healthcare — Close to Home
CA-2's nine counties have some of the worst rural healthcare access in California. If you need a cardiologist in Trinity County, you drive three hours. That ends.
- Forgivable SBA loans for doctors & nurses who open rural clinics in CA-2
- Telehealth infrastructure & mobile clinic networks in every county
- Voluntary universal Medicare eligibility — no one forced, no one denied
- Senior independence & aging-in-place: keep elders in their communities
- Childcare: $300M annually for student parents; affordable secure childcare
- Behavioral health: addiction, mental health, crisis intervention — treated as healthcare
Economic Revitalization — Jobs That Stay
California went from 300 sawmills to fewer than 30. Post-cannabis contraction hit Humboldt and Mendocino hard. The fishing industry is collapsing. This district needs jobs that don't leave.
- Reopen mills: 45-day permitting, tax credits up to $37,000/employee for forestry jobs
- Forest slash → farm soil: connect wildfire thinning to composting cooperatives — 100,000+ rural jobs
- Working waterfront preservation: fishing ports, seafood processing, dock access
- Post-cannabis diversification: specialty crops, hemp, agro-tourism, small farm grants
- Broadband: rural CA-2 cannot compete without it — federal infrastructure mandate
- Tribal cultural burning as sovereign right — partner with Karuk, Yurok, Hoopa for forest health
Food Security — From Farm to Family
Fertilizer prices are up 30% from the Iran conflict. The U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low. The USDA cancelled its food security survey in 2025 — we're now managing a crisis with no scorecard.
- Restore the USDA Household Food Security Survey — the only national measurement tool
- Halt APHIS staffing cuts: H5N1 biosurveillance gaps put CA-2's dairy & poultry at risk
- Organic transition framework: soil health credits, nitrogen independence roadmap
- Wolf-livestock coexistence: spatial management, compensation, rancher support
- $52M in Modoc grasshopper losses — the Pest Suppression & Restitution Trust Fund pays ranchers first
- Acorn economy, salmon fisher income support, SNAP multiplier protection
Ecological Restoration — Heal the Land & Sea
CA-2 sits on some of the most ecologically significant land on Earth: Klamath River, Pacific coast, old-growth redwoods, Tomales Bay. Protecting them isn't ideology — it's economics. You can't fish a dead ocean.
- West Coast kelp recovery initiative: bull kelp collapsed 95% — this reverses it
- Salmon recovery: Klamath dam removal follow-through, Pacific fishery disaster response
- Tri-Zonal forest management: core wilderness protected, working forests restored, buffer zones managed
- Carbon fee-and-dividend: 75% of revenues go directly back to families as dividends
- Water security: aquifer protection, watershed resilience, water-table sustainability provisions
- Indigenous co-management: Traditional Ecological Knowledge as co-equal to scientific management
Fighting for All of CA-2
Every county in this district has a page on this website with specific legislation addressing its specific problems. Click your county.
38 Bills. Every Word Public.
Agriculture, housing, healthcare, forestry, fisheries, insurance, tribal justice, education, veterans, workers, tax fairness, and the Constitution. Read them before you vote.
"The same-old political slogans are what got us into this mess. I am leading by example — removing money from the equation and replacing it with competence and hard work."
— Gregory Burgess, Candidate for CA-2
Six Careers.
One Mission.
I've never had a conventional career. I have been a counselor, a teacher, a federal officer, an engineer, a bus driver, and a mail carrier. Each of those jobs taught me something that a career spent only in politics never could.
I know what it means when your rural clinic closes. I know what it means to drive children to school on roads that haven't been repaved in twenty years. I know what it means when the government fails to act and people suffer for it.
I wrote 38 bills — covering agriculture, housing, healthcare, forestry, fisheries, insurance, tribal justice, education, veterans, workers, and tax fairness — before I asked for a single vote. That's what "Show Your Work" means.
This Campaign Belongs to You
No corporate donors. No PAC money. No empty promises. Just drafted legislation you can read today — and a candidate who'd rather show his work than sell you a slogan.