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You just can’t make this stuff up.

Days before voters head to the polls, four-term State Representative Anne Hughes (D-135th) was issued a misdemeanor summons for sixth-degree larceny after an Apple AirTag hidden in a campaign sign belonging to her Republican opponent, Darrell Harris, led Easton police straight to property she owns.

Harris’s campaign had reported multiple signs stolen from the area of Route 59 and Judd Road. At least one contained a tracker. Police say Hughes returned several signs — including the tagged one — and probable cause existed to charge her under C.G.S. 53a-125b. She is due in court in two weeks.

The signs highlighted Hughes’s infamous April 15, 2025 hot-mic moment after a Tax Equity Caucus press conference, when she told colleagues, “We’re not rich. But I always tell the governor to tax my people — they won’t even notice.” Harris’s campaign responded with the simple, devastating reply: “We noticed.” October 26, Hughes “noticed” the “tax my people” political signs, calling them “misleading” and a distraction, even though the signs directly quoted her.

In a Facebook post that carefully avoided mentioning the charge, Hughes claimed she removed signs that “shouldn’t have been on public property.” She apologized for not calling police or her opponent’s campaign instead, and declared that “campaigns should be about issues and differences of ideas, not yard signs.”

This is the same lawmaker who co-chairs the House Progressive Democratic Caucus, has pushed to expand HUSKY coverage to illegal aliens up to age 26, sponsored extreme abortion and gender-related measures (including efforts to enshrine broad abortion access in the state constitution and create a “Safe Harbor Fund”), and backed the so-called “library porn” legislation that would shield explicit material from parental challenge. She has also hosted Working Families Party gatherings at her 12-acre Easton estate.

The pattern is consistent: rules and property rights apply to everyone else.

Even the democrats are embarrassed about Hughes' arrest.

The Easton Democratic Town Committee issued a rare public rebuke:

“The Easton Democratic Town Committee does not condone Representative Anne Hughes’ actions. Removing campaign signs, for any reason, is not how we resolve disagreements in our community, and it is not the standard we expect from our elected officials or from ourselves.”

House Speaker Matt Ritter called the behavior “childish” and said he had spoken with Hughes and been assured it would not happen again. When your own party’s leadership and local town committee feel compelled to distance themselves from a sitting member over a basic act of theft, the rot is hard to ignore.

Republicans, including House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, described it as reflecting the arrogance of one-party rule in Hartford: the belief that Democrats can tax what they want, say what they want, and remove whatever stands in the way.

This is not an isolated lapse. CT Centinal has covered Hughes extensively:

• Her Tax Day hot-mic comment was not a one-off slip; it was a window into how progressive Hartford views the taxpayers who fund its priorities.
• On Independence Day she stood with signs declaring she “does not bow to kings” while her party’s local apparatus pushed “86-47” messaging — rich rhetoric from someone who casually discusses taxing her own constituents as if they won’t notice.
• Questions about her PAC treasurer (Connecticut’s Cannabis Ombudsman, whose professional ties include cannabis lobbying interests) and family connections to local Democratic property-tax disputes have gone unanswered.

Hughes represents one of the wealthiest districts in the state. Her constituents have watched energy costs, taxes, and the cost of living climb under years of Democrat supermajorities. The idea that she would take it upon herself to clear the streets of signs reminding people of her own words is peak progressive entitlement.

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