Gary Grossi

Gary Grossi grew up in Cambridge's Corcoran Park public housing and managed restaurants in Harvard Square before becoming a nurse.¹ He graduated from Cambridge High and Latin in 1977.¹ He also worked in mental health care at Metropolitan State Hospital.¹ A married father of two, he says he worked multiple jobs to support his family.¹

After tumor surgery in 1982 and a long recovery, Grossi returned to school and earned a nursing degree at UMass Boston.¹ He spent 29 years in the Army and Army Reserve and retired as a colonel.¹ His military biography lists a 2006 to 2007 deployment with the 399th Combat Support Hospital to Mosul and Al Asad, Iraq.¹

His civilian nursing career included psychiatric work at the West Palm Beach VA and outpatient addiction and psychiatric care at Bedford VA Hospital from 2000 to 2022.¹ He is also vice chair of the Acton Republican Town Committee.¹

Grossi proposes reducing housing regulations, streamlining health care administration, expanding community mental health and addiction services and supporting small businesses through economic opportunity zones.² He also supports congressional term limits, audits at the end of officials' service, gun rights and partnerships between police and communities.² He faces Democratic incumbent Lori Trahan.³