Ryan Fazio for Governor

CT Native | State Senator | Running for Governor to Change Hartford & Save Connecticut 🇺🇸

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

CHANGE HARTFORD. SAVE CONNECTICUT.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

@j_smith27008 We spent an hour and half at Stratford Day yesterday in between other campaign stops and had a great time

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Connecticut, we’re on the wrong track. Electricity bills are crushing families and businesses while Gov. Lamont keeps passing new laws that will only make it worse.

Higher costs for you, higher profits for energy corporations. We can’t afford to continue in this direction.

When I’m governor, we’ll change track. I’ll cut every hidden tax in your electricity bills and reduce rates by 20 percent. We can make our state affordable for your family.

[Ron Wilson @SoCalGOPJew]

@NedLamont As @ryanfazio said so well, “Four more years to do WHAT?”

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

82 years ago, tens of thousands of young Americans courageously marched to likely deaths in order to free a continent from fascist tyranny and protect the freedom of our nation and the world. Today our nation and world enjoys more freedom and prosperity than those young men could have hoped for and gave everything to secure for us—people they would never know. We owe them a debt we can never repay. The least we can do in gratitude for their valor is to pass on the memory of their fight and pass on the republic they left us better than we found it.

Every school child in Connecticut and beyond should graduate having been taught the basic facts of America’s heroes and history from Lexington to Gettysburg to Normandy to Busan and beyond. There is no excuse for the decline of civics education we see today—especially as the living embodiment of many of these memories pass on. The next generation must be armed with the knowledge of our great history and our current leaders must make sure that happens. After all, freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

🚨CALL FOR VETO AND AFFORDABILITY: Last week, Gov. Lamont said he was upset by possible future electricity rate increases. Well, this week the governor can do something about it.

Today, I joined my colleagues and great candidates for office to call for the governor to veto H.B. 5340.

Connecticut families like yours are already hurting under the weight of the 2nd highest electricity rates in the nation under this governor. The least the governor can do accordingly is veto H.B. 5340 which would add billions of dollars in new costs and public benefits charges to your electricity bills.

This policy would increase subsidies to for-profit energy companies on the backs of families like yours. No matter your political affiliation, you can understand why that is wrong.

All the governor must do to stop billions in new costs for our residents is use the veto pen. Today we call on him to use it and make sure that his actions match his words on affordability.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

@scott_wheeler12 @CTComptroller I think the last annual report had about $500M in revenues and maybe like 460 in payouts?

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

@CraigFishbein This article fails to include the PFML payroll tax of 0.5% on the first $135k of income—another massive Lamont tax hike. Net-net, he raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars on CT residents.

[Patrick Sasser @PatrickSasser5]

Yes… @ryanfazio putting down the facts. Boom 💥

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[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

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[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

“Like you, I love our state. I was born and raised here and graduated from our public schools. My parents, working-class city kids of union tradesmen, worked hard and moved to Connecticut. They instilled in my brothers and me a sense of faith, hard work, and an obligation to do what is right. Now I’m running for governor to restore the opportunity and affordability for your family that my family moved here for decades ago.”

There’s more to this campaign than some in the media will tell you. Hear it from me directly.

Read my op-ed 👇

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Gov. Lamont says he wants to lower utility bills. Well, he has a choice on his desk at this very moment. H.B. 5340, which passed the legislature in May on a party line vote, would objectively increase Public Benefits charges in our electricity bills by billions over the coming decades.

It would do so by subsidizing profits of for profit Energy production companies on the backs of working class Connecticut families.

If Gov. Lamont wants to avoid violating another promise to voters, he must veto this H.B. 5340 before it automatically becomes law in just under two weeks and change course.

[Weston Ulbrich 🇺🇸 @ctrewes]

Gov. Lamont is on a spending spree in an election year.

Bonded funds:
• '19: $889m
• '20: $1.5b
• '21: $2.0b
• '22: $2.2b
• '23: $2.0b
• '24: $2.5b
• '25: $2.6b
• '26: projected as high as $3.5b

Vote @ryanfazio to stop the corruption.
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[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

@CTIronman Most important nomination to fill.

[CTIronman @CTIronman]

13 is winnable. Anyone in Cheshire, Meriden, Middlefield & Middletown interested should DM me. I am willing to help

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Additionally we need candidates in the following Senate districts:

1, 5, 10, 11, 13, 23, 27

If you or someone you know is willing to step up in a big way or small to run, please reach out via DM, email (info[AT]ryanfazio[DOT]com), or to your local RTC. We need to challenge in every district and we need to give voters a choice everywhere.

While I am newly the Republican nominee, I will do whatever I can to build our party to fight everywhere and give voters a choice.

Winning does not look like winning one race or election. It looks like winning the most votes we can everywhere over the long term. Winning sometimes means bringing up the rest of the ticket. The worst thing is not losing a single race—it’s giving up. We must never give up.

[CT Election Guide @ctelectionguide]

Connecticut Republicans currently have candidates against 43 of 102 Democratic incumbents in the State House — leaving 59 incumbents unopposed - with 2 weeks to ago until the June 9th filing deadline.

4 seats unopposed by the GOP currently were carried by Kamala Harris by < 10 points in 2024.

[@realctresident @gburyres]

The entire CT Dem party has moved “progressive “, a radical position. Moderate Democrats need to move to the middle to support @ryanfazio

[Patrick Sasser @PatrickSasser5]

This is the way.
If you know you know

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Where does the buck stop?

[Senator Rob Sampson @sampsonforct]

Some people look at legislative debate and see delay.

I see representation.

Watch below as I set the record straight.

Read the article here: https://t.co/bw5aclA7Xc

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

We had a great trip through the Northwest Hills and Farmington Valley yesterday visiting some wonderful local businesses to hear their concerns.

🍽️ Tina’s Cafe 38, Torrington
🚜 Gresczyk Farms, New Hartford
☕️ BeanZ & Co., Avon

A special thank you to Mike Criss for State Senate for showing us just a few of the many reasons why the 8th District is so special.

Each of these small businesses are more than jobs and sales, but part of what makes their community special. Thanks to them for taking the time with Mike and me to let us know about the challenges business owners across our state are facing, including rising energy bills and costly red tape.