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Connecticut Democrats control the governor’s office, every other statewide office, both chambers of the General Assembly, both U.S. Senate seats and every congressional seat. After all those years in power, you might think they could come up with one accomplishment compelling enough to separate donors from their money.

Apparently not.

Their latest fundraising email centers on a social-media video posted more than two weeks ago by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Fazio. The video featured four voters supporting Fazio. Two identified themselves as Democrats. The other two were Republicans, including an Easton Republican Town Committee chairman who is running for the State House.

The video was promoted with the line, “I’m a Democrat and I’m voting for Ryan Fazio,” so Democrats accused Fazio of trying to pass off all four people as members of their party. It was fair enough to point out the way the video was framed. They pointed it out on Aug. 13. The media covered it. Fazio said the Republicans never called themselves Democrats, which is also true. There was a brief campaign squabble, everyone got his little statement into the newspaper and civilization continued.

Two weeks later, Connecticut Democrats are still trying to raise money off it.

“Ryan Fazio wants voters to think Democrats support him,” the email says. The trouble is that Democrats do support him. Two of them appeared in the video and said exactly that. The party’s big discovery is that two Republicans also support the Republican candidate for governor, something no one could possibly have anticipated.

If this is the best Connecticut Democrats have to offer donors heading into Labor Day, things must be getting pretty grim at headquarters. They run the state. They write the budgets, pass the laws, set the energy policy and have spent nearly eight years telling everyone Ned Lamont rescued Connecticut. Yet when it is time to ask for money, they are passing around a two-week-old Instagram Reel and hoping nobody asks what happened to the record they are supposedly so proud of.

The email moves quickly from the video into a pile of accusations about housing and energy. Fazio voted against “major housing reform” and wants to roll back “key affordable housing protections.” Which reforms? Which protections? Never mind. Those words have been tested by consultants and apparently frightened someone in a focus group.

Then comes the warning that Fazio “opposes cheap wind power (just like Trump!),” complete with the exclamation point. The email does not identify the wind project, say what the power costs or compare it with anything. Wind is cheap because Connecticut Democrats typed the word “cheap” in front of it, and Fazio is wrong because Donald Trump’s name appears in parentheses.

This is the sort of argument you would expect in a student-council election, not from the political party that controls an entire state.

Connecticut residents have spent years watching their electric bills climb while Democrats piled mandates, subsidies and government programs onto them. Now those same Democrats are demanding money so they can warn voters that Fazio will not lower their bills. When it comes to driving electric bills higher, they speak from experience.

The housing attack is just as empty. Democrats call their preferred legislation “major housing reform,” then treat opposition to it as proof that Fazio opposes affordable housing. By that standard, Hartford could name any bill the Wonderful Affordable Everything Act and accuse anyone voting no of opposing wonderful, affordable things. What the email does not do is show that Democratic control has made Connecticut housing affordable, probably because people who pay rent or property taxes would begin laughing before they reached the donation button.

The email ends with a promise to answer Fazio’s distortions “with facts,” presumably in a future email.

The email ends with the solemn promise that Democrats will answer Fazio’s distortions “with facts.” It would have been nice if they had included a few.

So dig deep, Connecticut. The party that made your electricity and housing unaffordable now needs your money to protect you from a Republican’s Instagram account.

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