Connecticut’s tax code is regressive. Working- and middle-class families pay more proportionally than the ultra-wealthy. Public services are underfunded, and municipalities rely too heavily on local property taxes.

Connecticut families pay some of the highest energy costs in the country while the CEO of Eversource earns more than $19 million a year, over 100 times what a frontline lineman makes. It’s time to rein in utility excess, give towns real options, and build an energy system rooted in renewables, resilience, and fairness. I'm not just going to complain about Eversource. I have a plan to take them on.

Connecticut is among the best states in the nation for public education, but the worst in racial equality in education. Wealth-based disparities in school funding persist. We must do everything in our power to ensure every child in every zip code has a fair shot.

Housing costs are outpacing income. Connecticut faces a shortage of affordable homes, while tenants lack basic protections.

Connecticut is currently on course to let down its immigrant community by not responding with the seriousness this moment requires. Trump’s cuts to Medicaid put their access to affordable healthcare at serious risk. Immigrants are our neighbors, our coworkers, our family members–and Governor Lamont is not taking their healthcare and safety seriously.

Unions are the single most effective institution we have ever built.

They ensure that the gains of a growing economy are shared by the people who built it, not concentrated at the top. They are how we build and maintain a thriving middle class. We have to do more than say we stand with labor. We have to actively fight for its advancement and back that commitment with real protections and policies.

Health insurance as an industry should not exist.

Connecticut is the insurance capital of the world. To take on this industry, we need a Governor with the political courage to do so. For too long we have had one who is not willing to take on tough fights. It’s time to change that.

Every Connecticut resident deserves to be able to afford and live here, especially  our seniors. Connecticut is one of the richest states in the richest country in the world. If you choose to retire and spend your golden years here, you should do so with dignity and pride.

We need a governor who will treat climate change with the urgency it demands.

Connecticut faces rising sea levels, more frequent flooding, and extreme weather that threatens our communities, economy, and way of life. We need a governor who will treat climate change with the urgency it demands—not just setting targets, but actually delivering results.

Our state must take a holistic approach to public health.

Just working on the insurance crisis is not enough. At a time when we have an HHS Secretary federally who is explicitly anti-fact and anti-science, and Congress has clawed back scientific research and public health investments, it is the responsibility of our state leaders to step in and not just fill in the gaps, but to take the lead. Because the pre-Trump status quo was still broken.

Connecticut has long been a leader in advancing equality, but leadership requires constant vigilance. At a time when LGBTQ+ people, especially the transgender community, face unprecedented attacks across the country, our state must not only defend progress but advance it.

Abortion is healthcare. Connecticut should be expanding reproductive freedom right now, especially with Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in Washington threatening blue states.

Connecticut's rail network was allowed to decay, and we have underinvested in our bus system where it is often unreliable for aspiring commuters. We should not be running public transit like a business that has to turn a profit.

Connecticut’s labor force has shrunk by nearly 47,000 people in a single year while employers advertise more than 80,000 open jobs –the clearest indicator that our problem is a lack of people who can afford to live here. Our unemployment rate is approximately 5.2%, higher than the national average. 

As Governor, I will build access into our infrastructure, our budgets, and our laws from the start — instead of patch-working it in after the fact — and I will refuse to ask disabled residents to prove they are poor enough, compliant enough, or grateful enough to deserve a life here.