Application for

A permit to build

The rent, the electric bill, the property tax, and the premium are four symptoms of one disease. Connecticut does not build enough of anything.

Filed and not built Disposition

2025 House Bill 5002Omnibus housing. Passed both chambers. Vetoed

2026 Senate Bill 3Health care affordability. Cleared Appropriations 39 to 13. Never called

2024 2,878 MW of offshore windBids received in the state solicitation. None selected

2021 Transportation and Climate InitiativeRegional pact on tailpipe emissions. Withdrawn

2019 100 percent zero-carbon electricity by 2040Codified into law. No penalty for failure. Off track

Every one of these was somebody's priority. None of them produced a building, a megawatt, or a lower bill.

01 / The record

What the numbers say

56.2^%

of Connecticut's electricity came from natural gas in 2025. Nuclear supplied 38.4 percent. Solar supplied 1.7 percent.

EIA, utility-scale generation

41.5^%

of active voters are unaffiliated, outnumbering both parties, and locked out of the primaries that decide most races.

Secretary of the State, 2026

70 / 69

Percent of Democrats and Republicans who name housing costs among their top issues. There is no partisan disagreement here.

Sacred Heart University poll, July 2026

169

separate property tax bases funding schools, police, fire, and roads, with no regional revenue sharing.

Connecticut municipalities

02 / The platform

Five things to build

IHomes

Build 100,000 units

The shortage is the whole story. Relief programs distribute a shortage more fairly. They do not end it.

As-of-right conversion of commercial and office buildings to housing, statewide
As-of-right multifamily within a half-mile of every rail and CTfastrak station
Fair share obligations set by the state, methods left to local commissions
No parking minimums anywhere, following Hartford
A shot clock on discretionary review

Infill near transit is also the largest emissions reduction a state government controls. Same policy, two arguments. HB 5002 was vetoed in June 2025.

IIPower

Build generation

A state with a 2040 zero-carbon mandate runs on gas and one plant built in the 1970s. That is not a policy failure. It is a construction failure.

Preserve and uprate Millstone, which supplies more than half the electricity the state consumes
Fund advanced nuclear site readiness at a scale that matches its purpose, not $5 million
Actually select offshore wind bids instead of receiving and declining them
Build transmission and reform standard service procurement

Moving the public benefits charge onto the state budget or onto bonded debt is an accounting maneuver. It should not be called relief.

IIITowns

Build municipal capacity

The property tax is high because 169 towns each fund everything alone. You cannot fix that one town at a time, which is why nobody has.

A real special education funding formula, not another one-time appropriation
State matching funds for towns that consolidate dispatch, purchasing, health districts, and back office
Stop routing money to towns and calling it tax relief because they might use it that way

This is what makes Plank I survivable in the suburbs. It asks towns to zone for more and offers to repair the finance structure that makes growth feel like a threat.

IVCare

Build health capacity

Double-digit premium increases are what a provider shortage plus consolidated pricing power looks like. Subsidies are necessary and are not a cost strategy.

Revive Senate Bill 3, which had bipartisan sponsorship and died without a vote
Hospital consolidation review with actual authority
Regulate pharmacy benefit managers
Expand scope of practice and residency slots

The state's own attorney general has said insurers, hospitals, and PBMs have no incentive to negotiate costs down.

VVoice

Open the primaries

Most Connecticut races are decided in a closed primary that most Connecticut voters cannot enter.

Semi-open primaries with unaffiliated participation
Same-day party affiliation
A published scorecard on the four building planks
Back candidates from either party who commit, and publish the record of those who do not

In August 2024, 7.6 percent of eligible Republicans and 16 percent of eligible Democrats voted in their own primaries.

03 / Refusals

What we should reject

Eliminating the state income tax
Across-the-board rebate checks
Unfunded mandates on municipalities
Promises of immediate electricity relief that no policy can deliver
New veto points

Connecticut is expensive because it stopped building.

Homes. Power. Towns that work. Both parties are competing to distribute the same shortage more fairly. Neither is proposing to end it.

Read the platform