VOTER ALERT: The Point Reyes-to-Oil Pipeline | Gregory Burgess for CA-2
⚠ Voter Alert — California's 2nd Congressional District

The Point Reyes
to Oil Drilling Pipeline

Your Congressman bypassed NEPA to displace families from public land.
Then the One Big Beautiful Bill Act used the same playbook to open 200+ million acres to mandatory oil & gas drilling.

Same process. Same constitutional violations. Different beneficiaries.

How Your Congressman Engineered a Closed-Door Deal

February 2022
The Phone Call
Rep. Huffman personally calls Michael Mantell (Resources Legacy Fund) to initiate private mediation. Mantell pays $30,000 to cover initial costs. Later contributes $1 million to TNC's buyout fund.
June 2022 – January 2025
Secret Negotiations
2.5 years of closed-door talks. NDAs silence ranchers. Farmworker families, Coast Miwok descendants, and the public are excluded from the table. When residents try to intervene, NPS and environmental groups fight to block them.
January 8, 2025
The Deal Drops
The Nature Conservancy pays ~$30 million to buy out 12 ranches. Gets a cooperative agreement to manage 16,000 acres of former Pastoral Zone — land Congress designated for agriculture in 1962. No Congressional vote. No public comment.
March 1, 2026
Families Displaced
26 farmworker families (90+ people, including children) face eviction from employer-provided housing. $2.5M transition fund = ~$27,000 per person in Marin County, where median rent exceeds $3,000/month.
July 4, 2025
The Template Goes National
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act codifies the same mechanism: bypass NEPA, eliminate public comment, hand public lands to private interests. This time for oil & gas on 200+ million acres.

The Constitutional Symmetry He Won't Talk About

Point Reyes (Huffman's Deal)

Private mediation bypasses NEPA public comment

No Congressional vote to eliminate Pastoral Zone

Private entity (TNC) gets management control

NDAs silence affected parties

Farmworkers & indigenous peoples excluded

16,000 acres

transferred to private nonprofit

=

One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Pay-to-play fees bypass NEPA timelines

Mandatory lease sales override BLM discretion

Oil & gas companies drive land decisions

Public input gutted from leasing process

Communities near national parks excluded

200M+ acres

opened to mandatory oil & gas leasing

"Huffman fights to protect NEPA when it's politically convenient to oppose Republicans. But when it was his own deal in his own backyard, he engineered a closed-door process that excluded the public, displaced Latino farmworker families, ignored indigenous rights, and handed 16,000 acres of public land to a private conservation corporation."
— The question CA-2 voters deserve an answer to

The Choice in 2026

Selective Constitutionalism vs. Show Your Work

Jared Huffman

Incumbent · Democrat · 13 years in Congress
  • Orchestrated secret Point Reyes deal behind NDAs and closed-door mediation
  • Former NRDC attorney — knew NEPA requirements and bypassed them anyway
  • Champions NEPA against oil companies but waived it for The Nature Conservancy
  • 26 farmworker families displaced with $27K per person in Marin County
  • Coast Miwok excluded from decisions about their ancestral lands
  • Boston College Law School cum laude — took an oath to uphold the Constitution

Gregory Burgess

No Party Preference · Show Your Work · 38 Bills Drafted
  • Filed DOI Inspector General complaints challenging the settlement process
  • Wrote three letters to all 988 Point Reyes community members
  • Drafted the Federal Lands Stewardship & Human Sustenance Act
  • 38 complete federal bills as platform — not promises, legislation
  • Fighting for constitutional process that protects ALL communities
  • "I Want Your Vote, Not Your Money" — zero corporate donations

By the Numbers

90+ People Displaced
$30M TNC Buyout
0 Public Votes
62 Years of Ranching Erased
200M+ Acres Now Open to Drilling

An Honest Economy for All

The Constitution applies to everyone — or it protects no one.

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All claims sourced from public reporting by The Press Democrat, Marin Independent Journal, KQED, Point Reyes Light, National Park Service press releases, and congressional records.

Sources & Further Reading

Press Democrat: "How The Nature Conservancy came to broker a secret deal" (Jan 29, 2025)
pressdemocrat.com

Press Democrat: "$10M in restoration funds lined up before deal" (Sept 13, 2025)
pressdemocrat.com

Point Reyes Light: "Congress probes park settlement" (April 18, 2025)
ptreyeslight.com

KQED: "Republicans' Probe Could Threaten Historic Deal" (April 13, 2025)
kqed.org

Marin IJ: "Point Reyes litigants want residents excluded from talks" (Nov 13, 2024)
marinij.com

One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Pub. L. No. 119-21, July 4, 2025) — NEPA § 60026, Federal Lands Leasing Provisions

NPS Revised ROD announcement (Jan 8, 2025)
nps.gov