Mike Winkler is an American politician who served as a member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an ...
from the 56th district, which includes part of the town of
Vernon, since 2017.
Career
In 2016, Winkler was elected to the seat in a close election over
Republican Jim Tedford.
Winkler was re-elected in 2018 and 2020 over Republican Laura Bush by a 15-point margin both times. In March 2021, Winkler controversially claimed that “you count Asians and other minorities that have never been discriminated against” when responding to a claim made by Sam Romeo, chairman of the
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich (, ) is a New England town, town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the town had a total population of 63,518. The largest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast (Conne ...
Housing Authority, that the population of the town of Greenwich was 37% racial minorities. Winkler later apologized after receiving criticism from Asian-American Connecticut politicians such as
William Tong
William Morten Tong (born May 2, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician who is the 25th and current Attorney General of Connecticut. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Tong attended Brown University and the University of Chicago Law School. He b ...
and
Tony Hwang
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.
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century American legislators
Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
University of Connecticut alumni
Connecticut city council members
Politicians from Pittsburgh
People from Vernon, Connecticut
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Connecticut politicians