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Bring Back Good Government
Timothy Knotts is a Windsor father, educator, and lawyer running for State Senate to break up the Hartford bureaucracy, return real decision-making to local communities, and root out the hidden fees and special-interest costs that have made Connecticut unaffordable for working families.
From Tim Knotts
“I’m running because Hartford isn’t broken by accident. It’s broken on purpose by a layer of bureaucracy and a political class that benefits when families don’t have time to push back. I’ve watched my neighbors get nickeled-and-dimed by fees nobody voted on, mandates nobody asked for, and special-interest carve-outs nobody can name. I’ve watched towns get told what to do and then get handed the bill.
I don’t think the answer is louder politics. I think the answer is clearer choices; the kind a working parent would make at their own kitchen table. Fix what’s costing people money. Put the decisions back in the hands of the towns, parents, and small businesses closest to them. Let the state do what the state is actually good at: backing up local communities, not running them from a distance. That’s the job. And after watching the same seats stay in the same hands for too long, I believe it’s a job that should belong to whoever is willing to do the work — not whoever has held it longest.”
“I’m not running to be in Hartford. I’m running to go to Hartford and get things done for the families, neighborhoods, and small businesses who have been paying the bill while the political class hands itself the keys to the kingdom.”
— Tim KnottsRunning on a clear set of priorities — not slogans, but specific things to fix:
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Audit and roll back the hidden fees, surcharges, and middleman costs tacked onto utility bills, healthcare bills, motor vehicle bills, and tax bills. If a charge can’t be explained in plain English to the person paying it, it shouldn’t survive. And taxes should be called taxes!
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Stop using Hartford to micromanage how towns run their schools, their zoning, and their public safety. Send resources, not mandates. Decisions belong closest to the people they affect.
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Strong, well-funded public schools, real parental involvement, and respect for every family’s educational choice without punishing any of them.
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Practical investments in the things that actually keep neighborhoods stable: small business growth and properly equipped, trained, and supported public safety, rather than blanket policies written for headlines.
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Real transparency on spending, real accountability for the agencies and special interests that have been writing their own rules for decades, and an end to the back-room carve-outs that quietly raise everyone’s cost of living.
About
Timothy Knotts is a father, educator, and longtime Windsor resident running for State Senate in the 2nd District because Hartford has stopped working for the people who pay for it — and it’s time someone went there to actually get things done.
For nearly two decades, Knotts has called Windsor home. He and his wife built their life here around faith and family, bought their first home in this community, and are raising their four children among the neighbors he now hopes to represent. He brings a teaching certification and a law degree to the work, but he isn’t running on credentials. He’s running because the families, small businesses, and neighborhoods of this district deserve a senator who shows up to fix what is broken instead of defending a system that protects insiders.
Connecticut families aren’t just feeling the price of groceries and gas. They are being squeezed by a quiet pile-up of hidden costs: utility surcharges, regulatory fees, hospital facility charges, motor vehicle add-ons, and mandates written for special interests and paid for by everyone else. None of those are accidents. They are the price of an overgrown bureaucracy and a privileged political class that has been in Hartford long enough to forget who they work for.
Knotts believes the answer is not more state control paid for at the local level. The right model is local control with the state in a supporting role: towns, parents, small business owners, and neighborhood leaders making the decisions that shape their own communities, with Hartford clearing obstacles and providing real resources instead of stacking unfunded mandates to drive up property taxes.
As a homeschooling father, Knotts has been deeply involved in his children’s education, but his view of education is bigger than any one path. He believes parents are a child’s first and most important educator, that strong schools are essential to strong communities, and that families, whether they choose public, private, magnet, charter, parochial, or home education, should be respected, not penalized, for the decisions they make for their own children.
Knotts is not a career politician. He is a working father who understands the daily math families are doing at the kitchen table, balancing rent, daycare, the electric bill, the ever-increasing car tax, and the grocery run that costs forty dollars more than it did last year. His decision to run came after watching state policy drift further from the people it’s supposed to serve, with increasing dysfunction at the capital.
Through his campaign, Knotts seeks to bring people together and represent every resident of the district with a practical, grounded approach, one shaped by faith, family, community, and a stubborn belief that government should serve the people, not just the people who run the government.