Gregory Burgess for Congress
Answered in Full
CA-2 · No Party Preference · Show Your Work · An Honest Economy for All
Every candidate questionnaire I have received, I have answered in full. The League of Women Voters. Seamless Bay Area's transit advocates. NumbersUSA, the national immigration-restriction organization. Real Impact, a ministry of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. The Charter Schools Action Fund.
Show Your Work means showing it to everyone — not only the audiences I find sympathetic. My answers are unedited and complete. Read them. Decide for yourself.
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Comprehensive Candidate Answers — All Eight CA-2 Candidates Side-by-Side
I briefed 89 congressional staff with a 14-point plan and five-scenario food price projection through 2050 on March 22, 2026, days before the crises hit the news cycle.
The League of Women Voters' Vote411 is the most widely-consulted nonpartisan voter guide in California. All eight CA-2 candidates have answered the questionnaire — top three priorities, biography, immigration, campaign finance, water and natural resources. Compare every candidate side-by-side at the official LWV Vote411 site, or read the full text of Gregory Burgess's answers below.
Sustainable Transportation Questionnaire — June 2026 Primary
Ten substantive questions covering transit modes, greenhouse gas reduction, disability access, traffic safety, regional integration, street-running transit, state funding, project delivery, and transit-oriented development. Answers grounded in direct experience as a former Teamster, school bus driver, and Whistlestop/Vivalon paratransit operator. Includes specific commitments on the SMART Cloverdale extension, a Distribution Center Transportation Impact Fee, vehicle smog-check revenue sharing, and a federal Coastal Rail Corridor feasibility study from Larkspur to Crescent City.
2026 Congressional Candidate Immigration Survey
NumbersUSA is a national organization that advocates for reduced immigration. Twelve questions on border policy, E-Verify, guest-worker programs, public benefits, sanctuary policy, amnesty, birthright citizenship, legal immigration levels, chain migration, the visa lottery, biometric entry/exit, and 287(g) cooperation. My answers are nuanced and on the record — supporting effective enforcement and worker protections while defending birthright citizenship and a farmworker pathway, and declining to take positions where I judge the data insufficient.
CA Congressional Candidate Questionnaire 2026
Real Impact is a ministry of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, a Christian conservative congregation. Seven questions on the SAVE America Act, the national debt, U.S. support for Israel, border security, the 2024 California marriage amendment, abortion and the Supreme Court, and parental rights at school. My answers distinguish religious from civil institutions where the Constitution requires it, defend constitutional rights consistently regardless of which side benefits, and treat the questions as serious moral inquiries — because they are.
Public Education Questionnaire
The Charter Schools Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that supports public charter school expansion. Twelve questions on federal Charter Schools Program funding, facilities access, regulatory flexibility, educator-led school development, and the broader philosophy of school choice. As a former Special Education teacher with ten years in the classroom — last hired and first downsized for seven of those ten years — and as a former CTA member and grievance representative for the Hawaii Teachers' Union, my answers support public AND charter schools that meet a common standard: state-licensed teacher certification, broad programs including real Special Education capacity at both ends of the ability spectrum, and full transparency. I do not support educational savings accounts or private school vouchers.
If a candidate publishes answers from organizations they agree with and withholds answers from organizations they don't, that is selective transparency — and it is incompatible with Show Your Work. The five surveys above were chosen by the organizations that asked, not by me. They span progressive transit advocacy, nonpartisan civic education, immigration restriction, Christian conservative ministry, and charter school expansion.
I answered each one honestly and in full. None of the answers pander. None has been edited for the website. Each is linked to the page where the questionnaire and my full responses live, so you can read the questions in context and verify the source.
If a campaign emerges between now and June 2 that publishes a candidate questionnaire I have not yet received, I will answer it and add it here. That is the standard.
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