The race for governor of Connecticut took a southerly detour Tuesday to Foley Square in Manhattan, where a lawsuit filed on behalf of Republican candidate Betsy McCaughey accuses New York Gov. Kathy Hochul of driving up electric rates by blocking the flow of relatively cheap natural gas into Connecticut.
McCaughey claims that Hochul is violating the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution by blocking construction of a pipeline that would increase the supply of Marcellus Shale natural gas from northeast Pennsylvania into New England.
“So I have filed the suit. I’m not going to wait ’til I’m governor. There’s no reason that the people of Connecticut should wait six more months to start remedying this situation,” McCaughey said. “The big question, of course, is why hasn’t Ned Lamont filed this suit to produce affordable energy for the people of his state, instead of kowtowing to a partisan buddy next door in New York State?”…