I am responding to David Collins' article “Connecticut GOP rises, despite Trump” (June 8). I agree about Trump's hate-based racist comments towards the judge who is presiding over the case against Trump’s university scam, citing that this judge could not be impartial because of his ethnicity is toxic.

However, I do not agree with David Collins’ metaphor regarding the Connecticut ship’s fiscal iceberg collision course, placing the blame for its certainty on Governor Malloy, the Democrats and the so-called coddling of Connecticut labor unions and the stranglehold over the Connecticut legislature. I find this assertion absolutely ludicrous and baseless, as this state has been on a fiscal collision course way before Governor Malloy, way back to Republican Governor Jody Rell, who, by the way, is packing her bags and moving to Florida.

How about we stop pointing fingers and placing blame, as there are enough reasons to go around. Instead, we should put our collective energies towards putting pressure on our elected officials to put a plan in place to remove our state from fiscal crisis.

So now that Mr. Collins has played the blame game, how about the solution game?

William F. Henderson III

CWA Local 1298 President

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