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Ryan Fazio, taking on Lamont, offers prayers — and ideas on taxes

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Ryan Fazio is trying to be the first to unseat a governor in 72 years. The road ahead is steep and not clearly mapped.

Ryan Fazio, a Republican from Greenwich, ventured north on a late-summer Sunday to pray and campaign at Black churches in Bloomfield, a dauntingly Democratic suburb of Hartford. He sat in seats occupied two Sundays prior by Gov. Ned Lamont, another son of Greenwich, the one holding the job Fazio desires. At the Rehobeth Church of God, where most worshipers have familial ties to Jamaica and other islands in the West Indies, gray-haired Bishop Jonathan Ramsey preached in a thunderous voice about prayer and possibilities — but also the futility of denying that whatever comes will be by God’s…

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