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Minnie Gonzalez
Minnie Gonzalez (born August 4, 1950) is an American politician who has been a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives since 1997, serving the 3rd district in Hartford. She is the Deputy Majority Leader since 2017.
Gonzalez was born in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico into a family of seven siblings. She graduated from Adjuntas High School. In 1981 Gonzalez migrated to the United States, where she worked as a Special Deputy Sheriff at the West Hartford Superior Court in Connecticut and as an Assistant Registrar of Voters. She is married to Ramon L. Arroyo, and she has two sons and one daughter.
In 1986, Gonzalez was elected to the Hartford Town Committee. Ten years later she was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 3rd district, which is composed of the Parkville, Frog Hollow and Behind the Rocks neighborhoods in Hartford. She served as the Assistant Majority Leader from 2003 to 2004, as Assistant Majority Whip from 2005 to 2006, as Deputy Majority Whip-at-Large from 2007 to 2014, as Chief Majority Whip from 2015 to 2016 and as Deputy Majority Leader since 2017.
Gonzales serves on the Appropriations, Housing and the Public Safety and Security Committees.
She ran for mayor of Hartford in 2007.
Gonzalez wants to invest more in technical high schools, and to established free community college for Connecticut residents.
Gonzalez is an advocate for family court reform. She has sponsored legislation to create a rebuttable legal presumption that shared parenting is in the best interest of children with divorced parents, with exceptions for child abuse and neglect. She has also sponsored legislation concerning parental alienation, to define it as a form of child abuse and to help children reconnected with their alienated mother or father. In 2014, Gonzalez worked to enact a law to limit the use of guardian ad litems. In 2019, she sponsored a bill to limit their use outside of severe cases identified by the Department of Children and Families. Together with republican Prasad Srinivasan and democrat Ed Gomes, Gonzalez was one of only three members of the Judiciary Committee voting against the 2018 reconfirmation of the controversial family court judge Jane B. Emons, who was not reconfirmed despite the positive committee vote. In 2019, she organized a public hearing on parental alienation and family court reform.
When governor Dannel Malloy proposed to cut Medicaid for single people in 2012, Gonzalez objected, asking: We want to fix our budget on the backs of poor people?.
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Minnie Gonzalez
Minnie Gonzalez (born August 4, 1950) is an American politician who has been a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives since 1997, serving the 3rd district in Hartford. She is the Deputy Majority Leader since 2017.
Gonzalez was born in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico into a family of seven siblings. She graduated from Adjuntas High School. In 1981 Gonzalez migrated to the United States, where she worked as a Special Deputy Sheriff at the West Hartford Superior Court in Connecticut and as an Assistant Registrar of Voters. She is married to Ramon L. Arroyo, and she has two sons and one daughter.
In 1986, Gonzalez was elected to the Hartford Town Committee. Ten years later she was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 3rd district, which is composed of the Parkville, Frog Hollow and Behind the Rocks neighborhoods in Hartford. She served as the Assistant Majority Leader from 2003 to 2004, as Assistant Majority Whip from 2005 to 2006, as Deputy Majority Whip-at-Large from 2007 to 2014, as Chief Majority Whip from 2015 to 2016 and as Deputy Majority Leader since 2017.
Gonzales serves on the Appropriations, Housing and the Public Safety and Security Committees.
She ran for mayor of Hartford in 2007.
Gonzalez wants to invest more in technical high schools, and to established free community college for Connecticut residents.
Gonzalez is an advocate for family court reform. She has sponsored legislation to create a rebuttable legal presumption that shared parenting is in the best interest of children with divorced parents, with exceptions for child abuse and neglect. She has also sponsored legislation concerning parental alienation, to define it as a form of child abuse and to help children reconnected with their alienated mother or father. In 2014, Gonzalez worked to enact a law to limit the use of guardian ad litems. In 2019, she sponsored a bill to limit their use outside of severe cases identified by the Department of Children and Families. Together with republican Prasad Srinivasan and democrat Ed Gomes, Gonzalez was one of only three members of the Judiciary Committee voting against the 2018 reconfirmation of the controversial family court judge Jane B. Emons, who was not reconfirmed despite the positive committee vote. In 2019, she organized a public hearing on parental alienation and family court reform.
When governor Dannel Malloy proposed to cut Medicaid for single people in 2012, Gonzalez objected, asking: We want to fix our budget on the backs of poor people?.