I'd like to respectfully request that the next time The Day is going to publish an op-ed piece by Chris Powell in which he expresses some concern for state employees, someone from The Day give me advance warning. Maybe a text or email an hour or so before the paper hits my front steps in the morning. Hell, you can call in the middle of the night, if you want. Just warn me, OK?

If there is going to be another Powell opinion piece where he does not blast state employees, I need to make sure my defibrillator is close by and in tip-top shape. The only thing more shocking than a Powell op-ed where he doesn't rip state employees (and retired state workers, too) would be if Cruella de Vil became the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dalmatians or if the Republicans in Congress drafted a single-payer, universal health care bill that even Bernie Sanders could endorse.

I wish I knew if Powell's, “State workers becoming scapegoats for everything,” (May 21), op-ed means that people can change or if he's just toying with my emotions. And heart.

Frank T. Francisconi Jr.

New London