In 1981 Minnie 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.
12 Facts About Minnie Gonzalez
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Minnie Gonzalez is married to Ramon L Arroyo, and she has two sons and one daughter.
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In 1986, Minnie Gonzalez was elected to the Hartford Town Committee.
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Minnie Gonzalez 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.
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Minnie Gonzalez wants to invest more in technical high schools, and to established free community college for Connecticut residents.
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Minnie Gonzalez 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.
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Minnie Gonzalez has 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.
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In 2014, Minnie Gonzalez worked to enact a law to limit the use of guardian ad litems.
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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.
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Together with representative Jason Rojas, Minnie Gonzalez sponsored a 2015 housing bill that would have required at least 75 percent of all new affordable housing projects to be built in affluent neighborhoods, in order to reverse the pattern of only building federally subsidized low-income housing in the poorest neighborhoods.
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Minnie Gonzalez has supported the use of police body cameras, to protect both police officers and citizens by providing objective truths about police engagements.
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In 2019 Minnie Gonzalez has sponsored legislation to permit the sale and taxation of marijuana to adults over the age of 21, with some of the new tax proceeds earmarked to curb the opioids epidemic.