Gregory Burgess for Congress
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From the Chesapeake to the Continental Divide, from Big Sky Country to Delaware Bay, the ideas at the center of this campaign have reached newspaper readers in five states beyond California.
The Point Reyes settlement created a procedural template that affects every community adjacent to federal land. The Agricultural Resilience Imperative addresses a food security crisis that affects every American household. These are not local issues — and the editors of these papers agreed.
Delaware Daily State News
Burgess: Why the U.S. Food Supply Can't Wait
I briefed 89 congressional staff with a 14-point Agricultural Resilience plan and five-scenario food price projection through 2050 — days before the Hormuz fertilizer crisis hit the news cycle.
Published in the Bay to Bay News network — including the Delaware Daily State News — this op-ed by Gregory Burgess takes the Agricultural Resilience Imperative to a Mid-Atlantic readership where the food supply chain crisis lands as directly as it does in CA-2. The piece argues that the convergence of fertilizer shock, herd contraction, farmworker disruption, and SNAP cuts is not a partisan issue — it is a documented failure of preparation that Congress can address with the legislation already drafted and on staff desks.
Letter to the Editor: California Backroom Deal Adds a New Threat to Big Sky Country
Published in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle — Montana's paper of record for the Yellowstone gateway region — this letter warns Big Sky Country readers that the procedural template used in the January 2025 Point Reyes settlement is not a California-only event. When a federal agency can use confidential mediation, NDAs, and private nonprofit financing to displace ranchers from public land without NEPA review, the same mechanism becomes available for use on federal land in any state. Montana, with its enormous federal-land footprint, has direct stakes in whether this template stands.
Letter to the Editor: Montanans Should Be Watching the California Court Case
A second letter in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, drawing Montana readers' attention to the federal court litigation surrounding the Point Reyes National Seashore settlement. The argument: the precedential value of how federal land disputes are resolved in California will affect how they are resolved in every other federal-land-rich state. Montana ranchers, hunters, recreationists, and conservation organizations have a shared interest in whether confidential settlements with private financing become the new federal land governance model.
Oil Leases Put Profits Before People
Published in The Durango Herald — the paper of record for southwestern Colorado and the Four Corners region — this opinion piece connects the procedural shortcuts used in the Point Reyes settlement to the broader pattern of federal land decisions made without meaningful public input. The argument: when the public process is bypassed for one purpose, it can be bypassed for any purpose — including oil and gas leasing on federal lands across the Mountain West. Communities in southwestern Colorado have a direct stake in whether NEPA remains a meaningful constraint on federal land management.
Letter to the Editor
Published in the Times-Call — the daily newspaper serving Longmont and the northern Front Range of Colorado — this letter reaches a Boulder County and Front Range readership on the federal lands accountability and food security themes that connect rural CA-2 to rural Colorado. A second Colorado outlet, alongside The Durango Herald, makes Colorado the most-published state outside California in this campaign's national footprint.
The Rising Cost of Food
Published in the Chesapeake Bay Journal — the regional environmental publication of record for the Chesapeake watershed states (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, the District of Columbia) — this letter brings the Agricultural Resilience Imperative argument to a readership intensely focused on agricultural runoff, watershed health, and food system sustainability. The Chesapeake region's fertilizer-runoff and food-supply concerns map directly to the AR Imperative's framework on synthetic-fertilizer dependency and regional food resilience.
Federal land sits in every western state. Food supply chains run through every region. The procedural questions raised by the Point Reyes settlement — confidential mediation, NDAs, private nonprofit financing in place of Congressional appropriation — affect every community adjacent to federal land in the United States. The food security crisis documented in the Agricultural Resilience Imperative affects every American household.
That is why these letters and op-eds were published. Editors in Montana, Colorado, Delaware, and the Chesapeake region judged the arguments worth their readers' time. The pieces above are not reprints of CA-2 coverage. They are original arguments addressed to those readerships, in their own context, on their own terms.
This is what the Show Your Work standard looks like outside the district: showing up, in writing, on the editorial pages of papers in five states beyond California — without paying a dime in advertising, hiring a single PR firm, or accepting a single campaign donation.
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