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If you were driving around Connecticut this week and thought you saw a lost dad in khakis and a dirty UConn cap, don’t worry — it was just Senator Chris Murphy doing his annual “please notice me” walk across Connecticut.

Yes, he’s at it again. For the ninth year in a row, Murphy is dragging his sneakers from town to town pretending to be a man of the people, while staffers trail behind him looking like extras in the Chris Murphy Vanity Tour, trying to keep him on schedule and well hydrated.

According to Murphy’s self-narrated travel vlog — lucky for us he is chronicling this stunt on social media — this is his “favorite week of the year.” Not Tax Day (Democrats’ unofficial national holiday), not even the Fourth of July. No, for Senator Murphy, true joy is strapping on a Fitbit and filming himself pontificating to the camera like he’s Connecticut’s answer to Forrest Gump.

I’m starting my annual walk across Connecticut today! Beginning in the very northwest corner of the state - Salisbury. I will talk to hundreds of people over the next few days about what they want (and don’t want!) from their elected leaders.

My favorite week of the year! pic.twitter.com/zpH6JumR3z

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 28, 2025

Murphy’s thrilled to finally stumble across voters who don’t recognize him. “I get to talk to hundreds of people, non-political people, people who aren't watching Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN…” in other words, people who don’t immediately roll their eyes when he shows up.

And apparently, he needs an annual hiking trip just to remember he likes the state he’s supposed to represent. “It’s also the week I get to kind of fall in love with the state again.”

Day One highlights included chats with schoolchildren and deeply moving stops at places like the Mobil station, where he shared wisdom with someone filling their gas tank. The real hard-hitting policy stuff.

And just in case you thought this was a spontaneous, grassroots bonding moment — nope.

In Sharon, Murphy triumphantly reports that Brian the carpenter told him the economy is great — just not for everyone. Shocking insight from the trail!

Then, right on cue, Murphy cheers the “good news” that the Connecticut House passed its so-called affordable housing bill — a legislative monstrosity that bulldozes local control, showers developers with taxpayer cash, and slaps a feel-good label on government-engineered gentrification. But sure, tell us more about Brian. Maybe he can explain why the solution to housing shortages is letting Hartford bureaucrats dictate every zoning decision from the Capitol.

By the end of day one on his pilgrimage through Connecticut’s most picturesque ZIP codes, Murphy was already clutching his pearls over two favorite Democratic talking points: not enough taxpayer-funded housing and those dastardly Republican Medicaid cuts. He insists that towns like Sharon are losing students because there’s just not enough “starter housing.” Funny — he somehow skips over sky-high property taxes, job-killing regulations, and the fact that young families are fleeing the state like it’s on fire.

The two things people have told me most here in NW CT on day one of my walk across the state:

1/ make it easier to build more housing here;

2/ stop the Republican Medicaid cuts which will destroy rural health care pic.twitter.com/MN74jWAKmP

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 28, 2025

As for the proposed Medicaid cuts — which he brands a “blue state cut” — Murphy calls them “atrocious, immoral, maybe unconstitutional.” He’s outraged that red states might no longer be forced to subsidize the fiscal recklessness of blue states that spend hundreds of millions on healthcare for illegal immigrants.

Murphy bragged that kids at Sharon Center School waited outside to see him — so he held a “mini town hall.” Their big ideas? Save the whales, lower food costs, and be nicer to each other. He was “so touched,” — finally, an audience that doesn’t grill him on taxes or notice when he votes to bankrupt their parents. Just how he likes it: young, impressionable, and too innocent to realize he’s part of the problem.

I was so touched - the kids at Sharon Center School stood outside waiting for me to walk by this morning. Because they had ideas!!

So we held a mini town hall. Their ideas for legislation:

1. more protection for endangered whales
2. lower food costs
3. ask people to be kinder pic.twitter.com/Uo5QCzELMC

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 28, 2025

Day two of Murphy’s ego hike was a real nailbiter — he might walk past the town hall and, gasp, have to double back. But he keeps going, trudging through a light drizzle like he’s braving a monsoon, all while delivering weather updates no one asked for. Once again, he reminds us this is his “favorite week of the year” — not when he votes, not when he passes a bill, but when he gets to wander through rural Connecticut pretending to connect with people who “have very little daily connection to politics.”

Murphy’s annual hike is a metaphor for everything wrong with modern politics: lots of motion, no direction, and a desperate need to be seen doing something. Even if it’s just wandering around in khakis, waving at schoolchildren, and calling it public service.

So enjoy getting those steps in, Senator. Just don’t pretend you’re discovering the soul of Connecticut when you’re really just discovering new selfie angles.

And for the love of God, maybe try walking back some bad legislation next year — instead of just walking for attention.

Starting Day 2 of my annual walk across Connecticut! pic.twitter.com/mqdZgp22MW

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 29, 2025

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