Scanlon forces Lamont to keep focused on tax fairness, relief for middle class Keith M. Phaneuf, CTMirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-GuilfordContributed Gov. Ned Lamont blocked Rep. Sean Scanlon’s push this year for a major state income tax cut for Connecticut’s middle class. But Scanlon made sure — through the new state budget Lamont signed last week — that Lamont won’t be forgetting it any time soon. The two-year budget will force the administration to conduct Connecticut’s first tax fairness study in seven years, something that fiscal moderates and conservatives have blocked on several occasions since 2014.