08/21/2026
State Senate candidate Amybeth Laroche thinks rules don’t apply to her (and she doesn’t understand them anyway).
Amybeth Laroche doesn’t know that the car tax goes to her town (she thinks it goes to the state). And she doesn’t pay it, despite sitting on Newtown’s Board of Finance. She also voted in NY state despite presumably living in Shelton.
Read Dan Haar’s eye popping investigation and ask yourself: is this the person you want representing us in the State senate?
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Like many Republicans – and many Democrats, for that matter – state Senate candidate Amybeth Laroche doesn't like the municipal car tax. In a social media video posted Aug. 14, Laroche derided the tax. She opened by saying she received a tax refund in the mail, only to then receive a bill for her car tax.
"The whole refund check, gone. Right back to where it came from," Laroche said in the video.
Trouble is, as of Thursday morning, Laroche had not paid her motor vehicle property tax bill to the town of Newtown at all, even though she sits on the town's finance board and is running for state Senate.
Columnist Dan Haar investigates. https://www.ctpost.com/politics/article/amybeth-laroche-car-tax-newtown-22393408.php
