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Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, is running unopposed for her final term representing Northern California’s largely rural 4th Assembly District.
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The district encompasses much of the southern and western Sacramento Valley and Wine Country, including Colusa, Lake, Napa and Yolo counties. It also includes part of Sonoma County. Politically, the district is varied, with more conservative locally-elected leadership in Lake County but a strong Democratic voter base in Napa Valley.
Who is Aguiar-Curry?
Before being elected to the Assembly in 2016, Aguiar-Curry served as a city council member and the first female mayor in Winters, a small farming town on the western side of the Sacramento Valley. As mayor, she oversaw improvements in the downtown area, worked to improve local schools, brought broadband internet to rural communities, built senior housing and supported agriculture in the region.
The majority leader also worked as a planning commissioner and launched a consulting firm specializing in public outreach with government agencies. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from San Jose State University.
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Protecting public health and safety, strengthening the public education system and fighting climate change are the three priorities listed on Aguiar-Curry’s campaign website. Specifically, she aims to provide healthcare providers with the resources they need, invest in quality education and smaller class sizes and protect farmland, air, water and open space.
The majority leader has authored 12 bills that have been signed by the governor. One requires consent for medicating nursing facility seniors, one allows out of state therapists 30 days to treat patients relocating or traveling to the state and one provides training fair wages for wildfire mitigation workers.
Earlier this year, Aguiar-Curry sponsored a controversial bill that would significantly expand state antitrust law. Business and science groups launched a fierce lobbying effort in opposition to the measure, warning that it could raise prices for Californians and make it harder for small businesses to operate in the state. The final amended version of the legislation limited who can file lawsuits against businesses. Aguiar-Curry wrote in a statement that she was disappointed by the decision but remained proud of the effort to “protect our California small businesses and working families.”