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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski took aim Tuesday at the smaller taxes and fees Connecticut collects, promising a bigger-picture approach to tax relief will come from his gubernatorial campaign after Labor Day. If elected, Stefanowski said, he will engage in civil disobedience on his first day in office by ceasing the collection of taxes he deems to be nuisances, until the next legislature can enact a statute repealing them permanently.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski took aim Tuesday at the smaller taxes and fees Connecticut collects, promising a bigger-picture approach to tax relief will come from his gubernatorial campaign after Labor Day.

In hiring a firefighter and grassroots organizer Patrick Sasser to lead his campaign, experts say Bob Stefanowski is likely to become more aggressive on the campaign trail.

Stefanowski stood in an acoustically challenged spot by the waterfront of New London, a locale with a distant view of a State Pier whose reconstruction is plagued by cost overruns and shadowed by an FBI investigation.

Over the din of a pile driver, a departing ferry and an arriving Amtrak train, Republican Bob Stefanowski said Thursday that Connecticut taxpayers are victims of a “corruption tax” and a hapless Democratic governor, Ned Lamont. Stefanowski stood in an acoustically challenged spot by the waterfront of New London, a locale with a distant view of a State Pier whose reconstruction is plagued by cost overruns and shadowed by an FBI investigation.