Denise Aguilar Mendez
Denise Aguilar Mendez (Republican Party) is running for election to the California State Assembly to represent District 13. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. She advanced from the primary on March 5, 2024.
Aguilar Mendez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Denise Aguilar Mendez was born in Tracy, California. Her career experience includes working in advocacy.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: California State Assembly elections, 2024
General election
General election for California State Assembly District 13
Rhodesia Ransom and Denise Aguilar Mendez are running in the general election for California State Assembly District 13 on November 5, 2024.
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 | Rhodesia Ransom (D)  | |
 | Denise Aguilar Mendez (R) | |
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 13
Rhodesia Ransom and Denise Aguilar Mendez defeated Edith Villapudua in the primary for California State Assembly District 13 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rhodesia Ransom (D) | 41.6 | 27,255 |
| ✔ | | Denise Aguilar Mendez (R) | 37.9 | 24,823 |
 | Edith Villapudua (D) | 20.5 | 13,415 | |
| Total votes: 65,493 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Denise Aguilar Mendez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Aguilar Mendez's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I have worked in grassroots leadership for almost a decade at a state level opposing/ supporting legislation to block bills or push bills through. I work bipartisan to put in place protections for children, families and Californians so that the community feels represented. In the work I’ve done with my non profit Freedom Angels we have helped bring about critical victories to our state: defeating SB866, which would have medically emancipated all 12-year-olds; ending AB659’s mandate of the HPV shot for children in public and private school and college; and the passage of SB14–which was initially blocked by the Assembly Public Safety Committee–to finally classify child human trafficking as a serious felony. Working at the Capitol every legislative session since 2015, I have been “boots on the ground.” With logged countless hours in Sacramento, building relationships with both parties and understanding how the legislative process works. I decided to run for Assembly and help course-correct bad laws after seeing how extreme legislators have become, representing radical agendas and special interest groups, not their own constituents.
- I am a grassroots candidate that will not be beholden to special interest groups. My focus is protecting children and parental rights, and correcting the soft-on-crime laws that have put small businesses in danger.
- Californians pay exorbitant taxes and fees, yet we have a massive budget deficit and crumbling infrastructure. We need true transparency within our spending with full forensic audits on how our tax dollars are being spent
- Our community deserves representation with a legislator who is in the community holding town halls to inform constituents on what controversial bills are being floated. The reason bad bills pass into law is because no one knows about them. That will change once I’m in office
Public safety, our economy and support for families will help our district thrive. We have the right to life, liberty and prosperity. Giving families support to thrive and to attain the American dream
Transparency, engagement and representation of constituents instead of being lobbied by special interest lobbyist. Honesty on what legislation is being floated and a voting record that does not reflect party lines.
The responsibility of an elected representative is to protect their community from over reaching policies and over regulation
The Call of the Wild and Free
A bipartisan relationship of discussion without coercion
Our fiscal debt. We are $73 BILLION in debt with nothing to show for it. The people of California are struggling, our in house’s community has no viable solutions and mental health programs aren’t well funded. We need a full forensic audit to know where our tax dollars are going and course correct poor financial leadership
I believe there are different levels of experience and knowing how the legislative process works is important in knowing how to represent the community
Yes. Working bipartisan is extremely important to get work done. Working within your own party will not support Californians. We need to work across the aisle within best practices to truly course correct our state
Shannon Grove has been a legislator that works with both parties to get work done
I have been told too many stories of families being shut out of their children’s education because of the laws that create parental alienation. Families having to make hard decisions due to inflation, our rise in gas tax and PGE. Families are suffering across the state of California
Course correction of SB132 and SB107
CAGOP , The American Independent Party, Reform California, Assembly member Bill Essayli, Latinos Pa’ Delante, Central Impact Republicans, SJC Republican Central Committee, Latinos United for Conservative Action
Public safety, health committee , education committee
The community should know who’s lobbying our legislators and a concern is that special interest groups are involved in our politics which must change if we want true representation
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 1, 2024
