Business interests · Public-records analysis
A public-records analysis of Rep. Weir's business holdings — built from Connecticut Secretary of State filings, Glastonbury and Hebron assessor records, OpenCorporates, and contemporaneous news reporting. Identifies seven CT business entities tied to him, including the $1.69M industrial parcel at 60 Village Place in Glastonbury that he himself describes as where he spends most of his time outside the legislature; documents his board seat on the Connecticut Apartment Association; and traces his consistent pattern of votes against contested tenant-protective housing legislation across four sessions.
The report's centerpiece is the May 6, 2026 demise of SB 274 — the Concierge Apartments response bill — which never received a recorded House vote after Republicans threatened to run the clock out on the final day of session. Includes a careful assessment of the Connecticut ethics-law question (CGS § 1-85 almost certainly permits the vote; disclosure is the load-bearing obligation, and Weir's official biography omits the commercial real estate entirely).
Senate Bill 1 (2026) · Roll-call analysis
A walkthrough of Weir's May 2, 2026 vote on SB 1, the FY 2026–27 budget adjustment that directs roughly $270 million in new K-12 and municipal aid to Connecticut towns. Using the Lamont administration's town-by-town breakdown and 2024 turnout shares for the split-town portions of Bolton and Glastonbury, the report estimates that approximately $630,000 of that aid is headed to the five towns of the 55th. The bill passed 127–21. Weir voted no.
The report documents that the vote was not party-line: 26 of 47 voting Republicans voted yes, including neighbors from the 8th District. Weir's no was a member-level vote, not a leadership signal. The piece makes no claim about his reasoning — it documents the vote, the money, and the caucus split, and points readers to Weir's own statements for the why.
Ideological placement · Voting-record analysis
Places Rep. Weir on a single liberal-to-conservative scale built only from recorded House roll-call votes using W-NOMINATE — no position is assigned by hand; the scale emerges from who votes with whom — for the 2025–2026 term and, for comparison, 2023–2024. Each of the 151 districts' partisan lean is estimated independently from a dozen years of election returns (President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Governor, 2012–2024), aggregated from towns to districts by 2020 census population and cross-checked against 2024 State House turnout.
Putting the two measurements side by side shows both where Weir sits among his colleagues and how that compares to where his district sits among all 151. The finding is stable across both of his terms: he votes among the most conservative members of the House, to the right of his own party's leader, while the 55th leans Democratic at the top of the ticket. All data inputs, outputs, and the R source are bundled with the report.
Source data · Roll-call record
Every recorded House floor vote Rep. Weir cast in the 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 regular sessions, compiled directly from the Connecticut General Assembly's roll-call PDFs and presented as a single sortable table organized by session. Each row links out to the bill's tracking page, the official roll-call PDF, and (where available) the bill text, and shows both the chamber-wide totals and the party-caucus splits — with rows outlined where Weir voted against the majority of his own caucus. CSV and JSON downloads of the full dataset are available alongside the HTML.