Voters in New Haven and West Haven elected Democrat Treneé McGee to serve as their new state representative during a Tuesday special election forced by the resignation of Michael DiMassa following federal corruption charges.
DiMassa, a West Haven Democrat, left office in October after the FBI charged him with using his municipal job with the city of West Haven to charge the town for more than $630,000 in COVID relief funding for consulting work, which his shell company never completed. DiMass also resigned from his municipal job.
Voters picked McGee, a Democratic town councilwoman and motivational speaker, from amongst a slate of three candidates, which also included Richard DePalma, a Republican and owner of a local heating oil business, and Portia Bias, a former Democratic councilman who ran as an unaffiliated candidate.