EVERY COUNTY
COUNTS.
Rural California is where the party has the most room to grow. I am running to make the Rural Caucus show up in every region, build the bench in every county, and deliver rural priorities through every channel the party has.
Raised in the Sierra. Working for all of rural California.
Mat Galvan was raised in Tuolumne County and lives in Mi-Wuk Village. He chairs the Tuolumne County Democratic Central Committee, serves as Gold Country Regional Chair of the CDP Rural Caucus, and is a member of the Democratic State Central Committee.
He founded Sierra Focus Media, a strategy-first communications firm in Sonora, after 15 years in communications. His approach to party work is the same as his approach to client work: set clear goals, measure them, and report back. Receipts, not rhetoric.
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What the caucus will carry to the party
The party already has a Rural Plank. These are the priorities the caucus will move through resolutions, legislation, and convenings, with one test for every policy the party supports: is it fair, and will it work in rural California?
Home insurance and wildfire
Keep coverage available and affordable in fire country, and back forest and land stewardship that works alongside the tribal nations who have cared for these lands since time immemorial.
Broadband
Push state broadband dollars all the way to the last mile, so rural families, schools, and small businesses can work and learn from home.
Rural health care
Protect rural hospitals and clinics, and make sure care is within reach without a two-hour drive.
Water
Clean, reliable water for the communities, farms, and ranches where it starts.
Workforce and local economies
Good jobs that let people build a life where they grew up, with labor, local business, and tribal partners at the table.
Show Up. Build. Deliver.
Every goal is measurable, tracked on a scorecard, and reported to members.
Bring the party to rural California in person. A statewide tour bringing [X] statewide officials and party leaders into rural counties each year.
Seat and activate every regional chair, reach [X] members in good standing by [date], recruit Democrats for local office in every rural county, and give county parties a shared toolkit.
Move [X] caucus resolutions each cycle on rural priorities, apply the Rural Plank test to the legislation the party supports, and bring the caucus through 2027 recertification with measurable goals on file.
Backed by the people doing the work
"[Endorsement quote from Michael Saunders]"