Cecilia M. Aguiar-CurryIncumbent
Candidate for Assembly District 4
Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry is a Democrat in the California State Assembly, District 4. That district covers Yolo, Napa, Lake, and Colusa counties. It also covers part of Sonoma County. She has held the seat since 2016. She now serves as Assembly Majority Leader. She has held that role since November 2023. She sits on the Agriculture, Health, and Transportation committees. Before the Legislature, she was the first woman elected Mayor of Winters, California. She earlier served on the Winters City Council. She also served on its Planning Commission. She has run a firm that consults on water and land-use issues. She co-owns and helps run a family walnut farm. She holds a bachelor's degree in business, from San Jose State University. She is seeking re-election, in the November 2026 election. Home: Winters, California, in Yolo County. Occupation: State legislator, Assembly Majority Leader. She also consults on water and land-use issues. She helps run a family walnut farm. Prior office: Incumbent since 2016, first elected to Assembly District 4. She was earlier Mayor of Winters. She served on the Winters City Council and Planning Commission, too.
On the issues
- Economy & Jobs
Supports cracking down on corporate/algorithmic price-fixing that raises consumer costs and has emphasized support for small businesses and family farmers/agriculture.
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Frames affordability/cost-of-living (housing, health care, prices) as a top priority and has authored consumer-protection legislation aimed at lowering costs, rather than proposing specific tax-rate changes.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports increasing housing production and streamlining permitting/development processes as a priority, citing lack of affordable housing as a key challenge.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Has championed legislation protecting victims of domestic violence and sexual harassment; no specific position found on police funding/staffing levels or gun policy.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Supports expanding and safeguarding access to reproductive and sexual health care, including protecting patients and providers from out-of-state legal action.
Source → - Reproductive & Social Issues
Supports abortion rights and reproductive freedom, and has taken action defending access to reproductive health care against out-of-state legal challenges; strongly aligned with LGBTQ-rights advocacy in her voting record.
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Has prioritized wildfire prevention through forest-management and biomass/organic-waste legislation, supporting prescribed thinning and related labor standards.
Source → - Water & Natural Resources
Prioritizes water infrastructure investment (canals, levees, dams), supports new water storage projects such as Sites Reservoir, favors streamlining permitting for groundwater recharge, and describes water-quality contamination (e.g., Chromium-6) as an under-addressed issue requiring a collaborative, compromise-based approach among urban, agricultural, and environmental water users.
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