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Hello 2026. Goodbye 1976.
For years, I have digging through public records and talking about the need for change. I am officially walking the walk. I am on the ballot for First Selectman. The First Step: Your Anonymous Vote. The Voice launched a Ranked Choice Poll to let you set our priorities. We disabled all tracking — no names, emails, or logins are required. We just want your honest opinion on what matters most for our town.
Low Score Wins! Think of this like golf. You rank candidates 1st, 2nd, and last.
1st Choice = 1 Point
2nd Choice = 2 Points
3rd Choice = 3 PointsThe candidate with the lowest total score reflects our town's broadest consensus.
I was honored to witness a truly life-affirming occasion with the inauguration of NYC Mayor Mamdani on January 1, 2026.
12 Days of Christmas
Fairfield, the time for waiting is over. We are at the point of no return, and it’s time to move from the Hartford-centric "Dystopia" to a Fairfield-first "Utopia." After talking to over 1,000 of you, the mandate is clear: Towers, Traffic, and Taxes must be fixed now. While the Air Force band shows incredible harmony, our current state governance is out of tune. Here are the 12 Mandates we will implement to help save Fairfield for eternity:
Rapidly emancipate the town from the System of the last 100 years.
Health & Safety: Restore local control over our police and fire protocols.
Affordable Homes (Not Housing): Offer a home to anyone who wants one.
Radical Transparency: Use Google Revolution to open the books.
Tax reductions: End the subsidies for out-of-town developers.
Utilities: Exit the Eversource/Avangrid duopoly.
Maps, Charter & POCD Corrections: Fix these crucial docs.
Neighborhood Advocates: Restore our 24 historic communities.
2nd-Chance Program: Large-scale public-works infrastructure projects.
Ten Miles of Tunneling: Start the energy line from Stratford to Greenwich.
Environment: Remember that we borrow this land from our children.
Towns United: Lead a Fairfield County office that puts residents first.WHO’S THE BOSS? TAKE THE UNOFFICIAL TOWN REFERENDUM HERE.
Fairfield has long enjoyed a reputation as "the town that has it all”. There was internal agreement that we were one of the best towns in Connecticut — topped only by being on the cover of Money magazine as one of the top towns in America. That wasn’t that long ago, but they don’t say that anymore. Now, everyone hears the same reviews: too crowded... traffic... developers killed it. Fairfield is hanging like the ship on the cover of the Kansas album Point of No Return. But the damage isn’t permanent. There’s a lot of traffic, and a few big buildings have gone up, but the open space for the most part is intact. There’s too much that’s inaccessible, and it’s all underappreciated, but nothing irreparable. What’s also distressing is that the wounds are either self-inflicted or that we allowed them to happen. This is the opportunity to recover our roots, recognize ourselves for who we are, and create the town we want to live in and leave behind.
Stay Informed. Your are everything. Yours in service,
Matthew A. Hallock, Independent Reform Candidate for First Selectman
(203) 292-0299 [email protected]
About The Voice & Matthew Hallock
Investigative Integrity & The Google News Initiative: The Voice is an investigative news platform that ascribes to the standards of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a program designed to support small and medium-sized news organizations in developing sustainable, high-impact journalism. We leverage radical transparency and public records to expose a system that has been fixed for many years, bringing modern accountability to Fairfield County and the State of Connecticut.
Fulfilling the Gerber Mandate: Led by Matthew Hallock, who is an Independent Reform Candidate for First Selectman, our mission is to fulfill the final mandate of Fairfield’s beloved past First Selectman. We focus on the "Three Things" Fairfield residents demanded we fix: Towers, Traffic, and Taxes. By restoring neighborhood representation and advocating for professional governance, we aim to transition our town from administrative gridlock to a functional "Digital Town Hall".
A Vision for The Fixing of C: Our work extends beyond local borders to the statewide "Fixing of CT," advocating for a Fairfield County Executive, a utility exit from Eversource/Avangrid, and the Second Chance Program. We believe in "Homes, Not Housing," promoting energy-positive ownership solutions that provide equity for our residents.
This platform is a work of public service; I approve everything I say and I write and pay for it with my word. Copyright 2026 Matthew Hallock, Candidate for Fairfield First Selectman. Conceived, written, paid for, and approved by Matthew Hallock, all by himself, which brings up a bigger point. If we pulled together as a town, we would get a lot more done.