Heather Somers, Republican candidate for state Senate in the 18th District, is a career politician looking for any elected office to call her own. She is running as an experienced outsider and a business owner. However, it is strange to me that The Day is not reporting on how she used her company, Hydrofera to get a $1 million loan from the state to create 150 jobs. Not only did she not create those jobs, and was fined $80,000 for failure to deliver on her promise to create these jobs, but she still hasn’t paid back the loan.

Why hasn’t this been brought to light? Why hasn’t Somers been called on to explain herself? Why is she telling us Connecticut should be run like a business, when she can’t even run her own without taking from the state's taxpayers?

Meanwhile, envelopes mysteriously fall out of the sky onto news columnist David Collins' desk smearing her opponent, “Senate candidate Bowles didn’t pay his credit card bill,” (Aug. 18). How convenient.

If Collins sincerely wants change for the better, perhaps he should dig a little deeper. He might find more good in Tim Bowles and be less blindly supportive of Somers.

Jordan Brayman

Groton

Editor's note: During the 2014 campaign, David Collins did report and comment on the issue rasied by the letter writer.