In her last elected office, the Democrat represented the 2nd Senate District, which included all or parts of Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties. Yet Steinberg said Wiggins was "never afraid to tell it like it was, even if it included some salty language." "[...] the fact that a lot of people didn't know about this profound disability that she struggled with is amazing to me and just shows the kind of character that she was because she overcame any difficulty, any obstacle in her way because she believed in what she was doing," Evans said in a statement.