One of his major goals is to reduce local property taxes.
"What I'm going to do is stop shifting the burden to local government through state mandates," he said, adding that Connecticut supports public education 17 percent less than the national average.
Otherwise, the elderly living on fixed incomes are in jeopardy of losing their homes. "The property tax is a corrosive tax," Foley said. "All those things need to be looked into."