Election-year spike in electricity bills brings cost issue back to the front of Republicans’ agenda.

By Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie.com 

A few dozen Republican members of the House and Senate held a news conference at the Legislative Office Building on Thursday to call for a special session on energy policy following the arrival of the latest round of electricity bills in their constituents’ mailboxes.

With people complaining that their bills had gone way up and in some cases nearly doubled, Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, and their party’s two ranking members on the Energy and Technology Committee blamed Democrats for the rate hike – despite reporters pushing back with evidence that both parties contributed to the decisions that led to this moment in various ways. And the Republicans outlined their ideas to change the state’s energy policies.

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