Greenwich Republicans

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

Weak men make hard times.
Hard times make strong men. <— We are here.
Elect Ryan Fazio: The strong choice for CT

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

As governor, I’ll bring back the jobs that Ned Lamont’s economic policies have driven out of our state. I will:

✅Cut your taxes by the most in state history
✅Support the trades and vocational education
✅Reduce your electricity rates
✅Incentivize investment in plants and equipment to create jobs

It’s time to make Connecticut‘s economy work for everyone.

[CT169Strong @Ct169S]

“Housing costs are the biggest inflation burden for many American families, though not necessarily the most obvious. Homeowners with fixed rate mortgages don’t experience higher payments in the same way renters can see their monthly costs go up at renewal every year or two.”

“Yet principal and interest payments aren’t the only costs of homeownership. There’s also insurance, property taxes, HOA fees, routine maintenance and emergency repairs. These are a growing challenge. A recent Wall Street Journal report showed the all-in costs rose almost 40% between 2019 and 2025. It was appropriately headlined, ‘See How Owning a Home is Getting More Expensive in Every Way.’”

“But there’s another, less noticed factor in housing prices. Homeownership used to be heavily subsidized by tax policy, i.e. the mortgage interest deduction. Getting that help requires you to itemize deductions. This became much less common after the 2017 tax cuts raised the standard deduction for everyone.”

“In effect, the extra tax deduction that once went only to homeowners is now available to everyone. Did it make a huge difference? Maybe not, but it made some difference. Now it doesn’t.”

“What happens when a once-subsidized industry loses its subsidy? Supply falls and prices will rise unless demand also declines. To be clear, the tax cuts were good and helpful in other ways. But they were also inflationary for housing prices.”

We need some real economists discussing these important items with state policy makers. Instead we have the developers advocates with a seat at the table now with the bureaucrats setting the states overall housing growth targets that will be used to set the affordable housing fair share mandates on every municipality. The developer advocates and the same agenda driven acolyte policy wonks at CCAPA who make a living out of vilifying local zoning and pushing feckless policies that will solve nothing for CT.

Unless the majority starts to recognize that the reason CT has been in a development rut statewide is not zoning, but rather poor anti-business and energy policies that have chased businesses out of our state, nothing will change. Except, once the awful impacts of 8002 start to be felt (municipalities funding parking on projects, as of right conversions of commercial to residential, removing businesses from the state and the fair share mandates pushing CT to the highest local property taxes in the U.S.) those living the only remaining cash cow in CT, lower Fairfield County whose many residents commute long hours (2-3 hours daily) to jobs in NY’s metro economic engine, and who can most afford to leave this area, will do so, leaving the rest of the state holding the bag of cow dung! Keep going…and you destroy what brought residents to this state in the first place.

It’s a state election year, keep voting the same feckless supermajority leaders into power and expect worse outcomes, not better. State elections this November can have dire consequences so vote wisely! Anyone that focuses on national leaders to divert attention from what’s going completely wrong in CT is simply not being an honest broker about what ails CT.

Can we please have real economists weigh in with actual facts on inelasticity of demand concepts that are very different in certain areas of the state and real data? It’s clearly not happening with the biased, paid for housing advocates who spew nothing but policies to enrich their funders and themselves.

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[GuyWise @GreenwichWise]

Connecticut: 5th worst state in the nation in private job growth and nobody in Hartford is minding the store
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[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Since Marx, left-wing politics have been sold as inter-class conflict, with the Left representing the interests of the proletariat against the capitalists. In reality, leftism almost always reveals itself as intra-class conflict, with a different type of “elite” attempting to take power and displace the existing order. On our doorstep in CT, socialists just won primaries thanks to highly-educated white progressives who want to control the commanding heights—in opposition of mostly working-class, non-white moderates. In the words of The Who, “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”

In CT, we have a historic opportunity to welcome middle-class and working-class families, jobs, and investment leaving increasingly socialist NY—if and only if we elect leadership that embraces practicality and affordability over costly government control. We do not have that now, but if we win in November, we can cut taxes for working people, reduce utility bills, create jobs, and make Connecticut a hub for economic opportunity in the northeast.

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

@SenBlumenthal Correction: It’s called Election Integrity, not sham.

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

We are just here for the comments 😂

[Ned Lamont @NedLamont]

No one should have to choose between their health and their financial future.

[CT Senate Republicans @CTSenateGOP]

According to a recent CT Inside Investigator article, a new CT Department of Labor report is out, and it confirms what residents already know and feel every day in our state.

Unemployment in Connecticut just hit 5.1%. A year ago, it was 3.8%. We are now above the national average for the fifth month in a row. Nearly 38,000 people have left the workforce in the past year.

This is not bad luck. Business leaders are pointing straight at state tax policies that drive up business costs and hurt job creators.

CT Senate Republicans put a $1.5 billion plan on the table this session to address the cost-of-living crisis. Our plan would cut property taxes, eliminate the car tax and the Public Benefits Charge, and lower electricity rates and healthcare costs.

CT Democrats rejected every piece of it.

CBIA President and CEO Chris DiPentima told Inside Investigator that “legislators did not address two of the biggest expenses residents face: the Public Benefits Charge driving up electric bills, and the rising cost of healthcare.”

Failed Democrat policies have a cost. Connecticut residents are paying it.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Connecticut has the 5th-WEAKEST job private sector job growth of any state in the nation sine the beginning of 2020. Not only that but unemployment rose again this month, well above the national average. Not only have Gov. Lamont and his ideological legislature failed our economy, but they’ve failed to create opportunity for working-class families most of all. The time for change is NOW.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

Over the last eight years, Gov. Lamont has repeatedly chosen utilities and data centers over taxpayers and small businesses. In his first reelection ad, Gov. Lamont talks about both topics but leaves out his record.

In 2021 and 2024, he approved of multibillion dollar deals for Eversoruce, allowing them to raise your electricity rates without a rate case and allowing them to sell Aquarion without regulator oversight of water rates.

In 2021, he also passed a special tax subsidy for data centers allowing them to avoid property taxes while you’ll have to pay even more through your taxes.

As governor, I’ll change course. I’ll deliver the largest middle class tax cut in state history, cap your property taxes, lower your utility bills, and bring jobs back to our state. After eight years of talk, we need four years of action.

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

@SenBlumenthal Who would object to secure elections? There is only one answer.

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

Follow @TinaCourpas to learn about her vision for solving the problem of one-party rule in Connecticut.
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[CT Senate Republicans @CTSenateGOP]

💸1 in 3 Connecticut households spend 30% or more of their income on housing. Residents are stretched thin while costs keep climbing. Connecticut can no longer afford the price of failed Democrat leadership.

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

Happy Father’s Day to all dads everywhere.

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

📰 Start spreadin’ the news: We’re offering a PROPERTY TAX CAP that will make Connecticut more affordable for your family or your business.

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[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

As your governor, I will start leading on day one to cut your taxes by thousands of dollars, reduce your electricity bill by 20 percent, and solve Connecticut’s cost of living crisis.

If it takes you 7.5 years to decide to study a problem as governor, you don’t need 4 more years to get the job done. It’s time for change!

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

If King George saw how much Gov. Lamont is taxing us today, he’d throw tea in the harbor with us.

If Ben Franklin saw how much Gov. Lamont raised our electricity bills, he’d regret his own invention!

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

“It’s OK that I plagiarized Josh Elliot’s tax increase proposal because I’m going to do it and Josh didn’t do it…even though I was governor the last eight years and could have done it…” - Not the most inspiring campaign slogan, but what do I know!

[Greenwich Republicans @GreenwichRTC]

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and enforced the freedom of the last enslaved Americans.

It was the fulfillment of a fight the Republican Party was founded to wage. Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

A Republican Congress passed the 13th Amendment that ended slavery for good. And it was the Union Army, under Lincoln’s leadership, that carried that promise into Texas on June 19, 1865.

Today we honor every American who was freed — and we remain proud of the party that helped set freedom in motion.

[Michael Goldstein 🇺🇸 @DrMGoldstein]

I’m Running to Represent You - Not insiders - @jahimes has some explaining for this exclusive Dialog club with tech insiders #palantir - You have a choice Connecticut - please join this movement #goldsteinforct -#goldsteinforcongress

[Ryan Fazio for Governor @ryanfazio]

CAP THE TAX: I am proposing a four-part plan to end Connecticut’s property tax crisis and “Cap The Tax”!

✅Eliminate Costly Unfunded Mandates
✅Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) Reform
✅Stable and Predictable Funding for Municipalities
✅Cap Your Property Taxes

Other states have successfully implemented similar reforms and avoided the rapidly increasing property taxes that your family have been forced to pay in Connecticut. There is no good reason we cannot enact a property tax cap for your family and others across our state.