Business Leaders
For owners, operators, managers, founders, executives, family businesses, and local employers trying to plan ahead.
Business leaders plan in years. Washington fights in news cycles.
CA-18’s economy spans technology, agriculture, retail, tourism, healthcare, manufacturing, and local services. It needs predictability, workforce stability, and infrastructure — not constant brinkmanship.
The partisan problem
They fight. CA-18 keeps working.
Employers can plan around competition. They can adapt to market cycles. What they should not have to plan around is a federal government that lurches from party fight to party fight while costs rise and workforce shortages deepen.
The two parties turn every deadline into leverage and every local issue into a national brand fight. That uncertainty makes it harder to invest, hire, retain talent, secure permits, and trust that federal programs will work when businesses need them.Read the accountability promise
The independent answer
Accountability you can inspect, not just applaud.
Demers is making a businesslike accountability offer: no corporate PAC money, public progress reports, term-limit discipline, and representation measured by delivered value to the region.
Why this page says what it says
Research anchors
The official CA-18 district page describes a rare district linking Silicon Valley technology with Central Coast agriculture.
Data USA reports CA-18 employment across health care, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors, with 354,000 people employed.
The campaign’s official difference page names small-business struggle, housing costs, and local jobs as central concerns.
What to fight for
Practical priorities
Make housing affordability a workforce-retention strategy.
Bring federal infrastructure resources back to the district.
Support local jobs and small businesses rather than only national donor priorities.
Reduce shutdown politics and policy whiplash that disrupt planning.