Michelle Louise Bicking

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Michelle Louise Bicking

Independent

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Denison University, 1999

Graduate

Springfield College, 2011

Personal

Religion

Catholic

Profession

Social worker

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Michelle Louise Bicking (independent) ran for election for Governor of Connecticut. She lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Bicking completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Connecticut gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Connecticut

Incumbent Ned Lamont defeated Bob Stefanowski, Robert Hotaling, and Michelle Louise Bicking in the general election for Governor of Connecticut on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ned Lamont (D / Working Families Party / Griebel Frank for CT Party)	56.0	710,186
		Bob Stefanowski (R)	43.0	546,209
		Robert Hotaling (Independent Party)	1.0	12,400
		Michelle Louise Bicking (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	98

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,268,893
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Aaron Lewis (L)

Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Ned Lamont advanced from the Democratic primary for Governor of Connecticut.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Bob Stefanowski advanced from the Republican primary for Governor of Connecticut.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Susan Patricelli Regan (R)
• Themis Klarides (R)

2018

See also: Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Connecticut District 2

Incumbent Joe Courtney defeated Dan Postemski, Michelle Louise Bicking, and Daniel Reale in the general election for U.S. House Connecticut District 2 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Joe Courtney (D)	62.2	179,731
	Submit photo	Dan Postemski (R)	35.4	102,483
		Michelle Louise Bicking (G)	1.2	3,595
		Daniel Reale (L)	1.1	3,305

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 289,114
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Clay Slawson (R)

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Michelle Louise Bicking completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bicking's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Michelle Louise Bicking is a 45 year old mother of one, former foster parent licensed clinical social worker and birth doula. She is a first-generation pansexual women of color of Bajan (Barbados)/Vicentian (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) descent, originally from Brooklyn, New York. She has a Bachelors in Spanish/Latin American Studies (Denison University/1999), a Masters in Public Administration (Rutgers University, Camden/2004) and a Masters in Social Work (Springfield College/2011). Her scopes of practice includes: LGBTQIA+ communities, older adults, hospice, dual diagnosis/co-occurring disorders, self injury/self harming behavior, new Americans and rural mental health, respectively. Her hobbies include writing, reading, painting, karoake and gardening. She resides in Newington with her son their two rescued cats.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• There is Room at The Table for Everyone
• Universal Health is Universal Wealth
• Connecticut, Together

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Universal education for all Connecticut residents; universal health coverage for all Connecticut residents; mass transit access including regional rail on existing freight lines.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

First and foremost, both of my parent - Odley Leon Bynoe of Silver Sands, Barbados and Louise Loren Bynoe of Bel Air, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. I carry their lessons, drive and resilience wherever I go. Followed closely by my fifth grade teacher Mrs. Agnes King and my third and eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Carol Podkrash for pushing me towards a level of greatness that I never thought I would ever see in my lifetime. I am humbled by their love and belief in the woman I still be coming.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

The principles that I stand on as a candidate are integrity, reliability, trustworthiness, decency and respect for others.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Integrity, faithfulness, decency, respect

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

I believe that at it's core the role of Governor demonstrate effectiveness, fairness and understanding providing guidance to all the individual components of state governing. Governors are expected to available and forthright to both discuss and resolve pertinent issues, and not shy away from being physically engaged with communities throughout the state.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like for anyone who is committed to make a lasting change in their community to find the courage to run for public office.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I remember the Y2K phenomenon and the level of palpable paranoia ripping through my neighborhood in East New York/Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It was unlike anything I had ever seen prior to the collapse of the World Trade Center three years later.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Royal Video as a stocking clerk in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. I was 17 and a senior in high school, and was there for the better part of one year before leaving for college in 1995.

What is your favorite book? Why?

That's a very hard ask. Anything by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. I am reminded of my personal power with every read.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

I think I would like the ability to influence weather patterns (Storm) combined with the ability to heal others through physical touch.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Someone Loved You Honey by JC Lodge. It was the last song my father and I sang together a few months before he died and every once a while pops into my head.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Seeing people suffer needlessly for conditions that often outside their control has always rattled me to the core. I am drawn to public service because I wish to alleviate suffering and aide people in crafting the best life possible for themselves on their own terms.

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?

To be Governor of Connecticut is an enormous amount of personal responsibility to all of one's constituents across the state, regardless of their background, economic status or worldviews. I recognize that unique responsibility as nothing less of a true privilege to serve, and should never be taken for granted. I am committed to raising the quality life of all Connecticut residents, ensuring that their health and safety are safeguarded.

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

The most role in my opinion is as facilitator and collaborator. As the most public face of the State to the world, I must be able to create an environment where people feel safe and validated, and that their personal concerns are heeded. I believe in servant leadership, and that great leaders are defined and refined by their ability to both listen and act.

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

In collaboration with all vested parties across the proverbial political isle, I hope to adjudicate any existing budget concerns, diverse the current income streams recieved by the state and provide a open, transparent budgetary review process that be inspected and commented on by the general public.

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

I would use this tactic only if there is evidence if implicit bias or other forms of discrimination and/or where the intentions of the proposal had not been appropriately demonstrated and the implications on affected parties shown.

If the governor's office in your state does not have the line-item veto power, do you believe it should? Why or why not?

Line item veto access is active in Connecticut.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

I believe the relationship between the state legislatures and the Governor is an active partnership that uses the greatest public good as the primary focal point.

What do you love most about your state?

I love Connecticut's people more than anything else. We are truly the jewel in the crown that is New England.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

Leveraging the extremely high cost of living; limited affordable housing options for very low, low and median income earners; and comprehensive healthcare affordability are among the greatest challenges facing Connecticut.

Tell us your favorite joke.

The first joke my aunt told me as a child:

Aunty Theresa: Knock, knock
Me: Who's there?
Aunty Theresa: Amos
Me: Amos who?

Aunty Theresa: A mosquito

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

Emergency powers should be used when faced by a potential armed invasion of communal spaces, as a response to a natural/environmental disaster and/or when evidence of surge in infection rates for specific communicable disease conditions including but not limited to coronavirus. The piers should be limited to the emergency and be suspended when any potential threaten have been contained or otherwise neutralized.

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