Chris RogersIncumbent
Candidate for Assembly District 2
Chris Rogers is the incumbent Democratic member of the California State Assembly, District 2. He represents the North Coast. That runs from Sonoma County to the Oregon border. He was raised on the North Coast. He holds a bachelor's degree from UC Santa Barbara. He holds a grad degree from Sonoma State University. Rogers began in public service as a legislative aide. He later became a senior staffer for State Senator Mike McGuire. He was elected to the Santa Rosa City Council in 2016. He later served as mayor there. As mayor and councilmember, he led Santa Rosa's recovery from the 2017 Tubbs Fire. He led the city through later wildfires, drought, flooding, and COVID-19. He also helped start a first-time homebuyer program for low-income workers. He was elected to the Assembly in November 2024. He took office December 2, 2024. He is running for a second term, in the November 2026 election. He lives in Santa Rosa with his wife Sarah, a nurse, and their son. In the Legislature, he has focused on rural health care access. He has also focused on wildfire and forest policy. He has also worked on housing and childcare. He has said poverty, children's issues, climate change, and health care drew him to politics. Home: Santa Rosa, California. Occupation: California State Assemblymember, District 2. Prior office: Incumbent since December 2, 2024, elected November 2024. He was earlier a Santa Rosa City Councilmember, elected 2016, and Mayor of Santa Rosa.
On the issues
- Economy & Jobs
Has authored labor-related legislation, including a bill to clarify prosecution jurisdiction for wage theft/labor trafficking and a bill addressing meal-break rules for stationary engineers to allow collective bargaining flexibility.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports building more affordable housing, expanding rent protections, and reducing homelessness; as Santa Rosa mayor launched a first-time homebuyer program for low-income workers.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Has supported legislation aimed at strengthening protections for people seeking urgent restraining orders, and frames public safety substantially around wildfire/disaster preparedness rather than policing specifically.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Prioritizes expanding rural healthcare workforce and access, protecting rural clinics, lowering prescription drug costs, and preserving federal shortage-area designations that direct resources to underserved areas.
Source → - Reproductive & Social Issues
States support for protecting reproductive freedom, citing concern about federal policy changes affecting reproductive rights as part of his motivation for seeking re-election; no specific LGBTQ-rights bill or statement was found.
Source → - Family & Social Services
Supports expanding access to childcare, improved fiscal accountability in childcare funding programs, and services for foster youth, including tribal foster youth prevention programs.
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Supports wildfire prevention and forest resilience policy, expanded prescribed burning, biomass utilization to reduce wood-waste wildfire risk, and greater transparency and planning in utility energy transmission and cost allocation.
Source → - Water & Natural Resources
Cites work on drought response and serves on the Assembly's water/parks/wildlife-related committee assignments; campaign material references addressing drought as part of his North Coast agenda, though no specific water-supply or groundwater bill was identified.
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Introduced legislation to limit corporate spending on state elections, framing it as an effort to curb dark-money influence in California politics.
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