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Republican · Connecticut House, district 65

Serving since Jan 8, 2025CT 2025–26 session

Portrait of Joe Canino, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
96%
of State House Republicans score to the left of Canino on the CSIP scale

CSIP score +0.81 (approximate range +0.75 to +0.86, which understates the uncertainty); negative is left of the scale’s centre, positive right. From 313 donors and 300 roll calls.

CSIP places every official on one left–right scale estimated from roll-call votes, campaign donations and the text of statements; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of moderate. The share says where Canino sits among State House Republicans, not how far from the centre.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Republicans. 100% of Canino’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Connecticut, in the top quarter of State House Republicans. Canino reported $7,171 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State House Republicans (median $33.7K).

The measures on which Canino sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

CSIP ideology

+0.81

More conservative than 96% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05

Attendance

100%

Connecticut House average 96.7% · ranks 19th of 151 · 754 roll calls

From Connecticut, 2026

100%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 392nd of 2,335 State House Republicans

Itemized, 2026

$7,171

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 2063rd of 2,521

Out of committee

41%

Connecticut House average 35% · ranks 50th of 150

Party unity

96.8%

Connecticut House average 95.0% · ranks 78th of 151 · 36 votes against the majority of Connecticut House Republicans

Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Canino, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Canino is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What Canino says

No statements for the CT 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the CT 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

Canino sits at +0.81 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 96% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.75 to +0.86, which understates the uncertainty; from 313 donors and 300 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.81

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.75 to +0.86. From 313 donors and 300 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0Canino +0.8State House Republicans +0.4Connecticut House −0.7All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is Canino, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Canino’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where Canino sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4Canino +0.8Connecticut Housemedian −0.7All State Housemedian +0.1
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Canino's CSIP score of +0.81 placed against State House Republicans, Connecticut House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of Canino
State House Republicans2917+0.496%
Connecticut House151−0.793%
All State House5324+0.198%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Canino in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Canino.

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Money

Canino reported $7,171 in the 2026 cycle, 21% of the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 100% of itemized individual money came from Connecticut.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$7,171

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 197 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)100 squares$7,171
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Sources of Canino's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$7,171100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $6,553$6,55320242026 cycle: $7,171$7,1712026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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Canino's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$6,553
2026 cycle$7,171

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 100% came from Connecticut.

  1. Connecticut$7,171

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: $7,171CTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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Canino's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Connecticut$7,171
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
New JerseyNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
197

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

100%

from Connecticut

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Connecticut. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$1,285 31 donors
  2. LOBBYIST$500 5 donors
  3. OWNER$265 4 donors
  4. PLUMBER$250 3 donors
  5. STUDENT$90 5 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. CITY OF TORRINGTON$225 5 donors
  2. HARTFORD HEALTHCARE$110 3 donors
  3. STUDENT$90 5 donors
  4. NO$60 8 donors
  5. TORRINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$35 3 donors

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

Canino voted with the majority of Connecticut House Republicans on 96.8% of party-line votes and missed none of 754 roll calls. Connecticut House on average: 95.0% party unity, 96.7% attendance. Across all roll calls, Canino voted against the majority of Connecticut House Republicans 36 times.

754 roll calls Canino could vote on in the CT 2025–26 session, compared with Connecticut House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Canino voted with the majority of Connecticut House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

36

votes against the majority of Connecticut House Republicans

Party unity 96.8%, Connecticut House average 95.0%, ranks 78th of 151. 754 roll calls in the CT 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is Canino, the thin grey bar the Connecticut House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
Canino
Peers
Rank
Attendance
100%
96.7%
19th of 151
Party unity
96.8%
95.0%
78th of 151
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Canino's attendance and party unity against Connecticut House.
RowCaninoPeers
Attendance100%96.7%
Party unity96.8%95.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the CT 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
May 6, 2026
SB 391
AN ACT CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY OF BREAST CANCER SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR WOMEN COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 49–0Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
HB 5563
AN ACT CONCERNING VARIOUS CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROPOSALS, CERTIFICATES OF APPROVAL FOR AIRPORTS, HELIPORTS, VERTIPORTS, RESTRICTED LANDING AREAS AND OTHER AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES, POLICE COLLABORATION WITH SOCIAL WORKERS, SURVEILLANCE PRICING, EDUCATION COST SHARING AND WITHHOLDING OF
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 49–0Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 307
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REVISIONS TO THE COMMERCE STATUTES AND PROHIBITING SCHOLARSHIP DISPLACEMENT FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 100–0 · R 49–0Democrats 100 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 306
AN ACT CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY STRATEGY.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 101–0 · R 47–2Democrats 101 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 47 yea, 2 naybecame law
May 6, 2026
SB 220
AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT LITERACY, ASPIRING EDUCATORS, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS PART OF THE WORLD LANGUAGES CURRICULUM AND THE PARAEDUCATOR HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN SUBSIDY PROGRAM.
House Roll Call Vote
YeaWith majoritypassD 100–1 · R 49–0Democrats 100 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 49 yea, 0 naybecame law
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Canino most often

  1. Jay CaseR746 shared votes96%
  2. Arnie JensenR754 shared votes96%
  3. Lezlye ZupkusR720 shared votes95%
  4. Bill PizzutoR719 shared votes95%
  5. Tony ScottR734 shared votes95%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as Canino least often

  1. Christopher RosarioD648 shared votes68%
  2. Bobby SanchezD374 shared votes70%
  3. Brandon ChafeeD626 shared votes70%
  4. Rebecca MartinezD747 shared votes70%
  5. Gregg HaddadD754 shared votes70%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

CT 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

Canino sponsored 17 bills in the CT 2025–26 session; 5 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 41% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Connecticut House average 35%; 50th of 150).

The bills Canino sponsored and cosponsored in the CT 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the CT 2025–26 session

Sponsored17 billsSponsored, Introduced: 1717Sponsored, In committee: 1717Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 77Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 55Sponsored, Became law: 55Cosponsored0 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 00Cosponsored, In committee: 00Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 00Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Cosponsored, Became law: 00IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills Canino sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored1717755
Cosponsored00000
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills Canino sponsored, ochre blocks bills Canino cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

41%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Connecticut House average 35%. Ranks 50th of 150.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Canino, by number of shared bills in the CT 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Tom Delnicki4
  2. Paul Cicarella4
  3. Tom O'Dea3
  4. Ben McGorty3
  5. Nick Menapace3
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Canino’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HB 5557AN ACT CONCERNING A PLAN TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING GROUPS ON AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND NONEMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION REIMBURSEMENT.SponsorMar 20, 2026Became lawHealth(model)SIGNED BY GOVERNOR Jun 2, 2026
HB 5046AN ACT SUPPORTING FIRST RESPONDER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION.SponsorMar 17, 2026In committeeEmergency Management(model)FILE NO. 313 Apr 1, 2026
HB 5403AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR SURVIVORS OF UNPAID VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AND STATE MARSHALS.SponsorMar 17, 2026In committeeHealth(model)FILE NO. 266 Mar 31, 2026
SB 373AN ACT ALLOWING A PERSONAL INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR STIPENDS PAID TO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS, VOLUNTEER FIRE POLICE OFFICERS AND VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE MEMBERS.SponsorMar 17, 2026Passed one chamberTaxation(model)HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 497 Apr 23, 2026
SB 410AN ACT CONCERNING FIREFIGHTER CANCER.SponsorMar 17, 2026In committeeHealth(model)FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. Apr 14, 2026

Back to topNext: Online

Online

A site that has not changed in 90 days. Canino’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls Canino’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Canino posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images Canino posted

No images from Canino’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

136 turns, Jan 8, 2025 to May 5, 2026

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

Back to topNext: Methods and sources

Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which Canino is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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