Michelle Louise Bicking
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 | |
| 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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
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 |
 | Dan Postemski (R) | 35.4 | 102,483 | |
| Michelle Louise Bicking (G) | 1.2 | 3,595 | |
 | Daniel Reale (L) | 1.1 | 3,305 | |
| Total votes: 289,114 | |||
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Republican primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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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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.
- There is Room at The Table for Everyone
- Universal Health is Universal Wealth
- Connecticut, Together
Universal education for all Connecticut residents; universal health coverage for all Connecticut residents; mass transit access including regional rail on existing freight lines.
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.
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The principles that I stand on as a candidate are integrity, reliability, trustworthiness, decency and respect for others.
Integrity, faithfulness, decency, respect
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's a very hard ask. Anything by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. I am reminded of my personal power with every read.
I think I would like the ability to influence weather patterns (Storm) combined with the ability to heal others through physical touch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Line item veto access is active in Connecticut.
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.
I love Connecticut's people more than anything else. We are truly the jewel in the crown that is New England.
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.
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
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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See also
2022 Elections
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