Ryan Fazio is running for governor, and he is doing it the way he has done everything else in his political career: with the unglamorous insistence that the public has a right to know.

In Connecticut— where so much happens behind closed doors — pension fund investments, billion-dollar healthcare deals, and, most recently, the anti-local legislation known as 5002 — Fazio has made transparency his guiding principle.

“Al l of us as electricity consumers have been paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year in public benefits charges,” he said in a recent interview, referring to the quietly levied fees tucked into electric bills. “Until last year, nobody knew about this until I passed a new law that requires those charges to be itemized on every person’s utility bill. People were already u

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