To the editor:

I recently read a news article about why things went wrong in the performance of U.S. Secret Service at the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump.

It was noted that “pre-existing issues in leadership and training created an environment” in which the failures could occur, like giving significant responsibilities to Secret Service personnel with little to no experience in advanced planning roles. It also noted a lack of coordination and planning between the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners.” 

In my employment experience, “little to no experience” by people in top-level positions is a pure result of the 20-year Affirmative Action discriminatory giving of jobs and promotions to inexperienced, unqualified, non-male, or non-white applicants to positions they just can’t handle. I personally saw a lot of that happen through the years, not only in government but in private industry big time to the extent that it was tough for a qualified person to actually get a job. It was unfair to both the qualified one who did not get the job and the unqualified one who did get the job. But to have it in happen in the case of Secret Service protection activity is unthinkable.  Trump did the right thing in shutting down Affirmative Action as an unconstitutional discriminating process in hiring.

Dennis Born

New Ulm