UConn Instructional Designer Sends Profanity-Laden Email to Melissa Ziobron. (Language Alert)

All she had to do was unsubscribe. Instead, UConn instructional designer Betsy Guala responded to a routine campaign email from state Representative Melissa Ziobron–who is seeking a promotion to the state Senate–with a vulgar message featuring the ugliest profanity. The September 12th message is posted above.

Guala is “an Instructional Designer/eLearning Developer at the University of Connecticut, in The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL),” according to her online profile. She was paid $64,128.13 in FY 2017 and received an additional $32,423.33 in benefits. She appears not to be tolerant of divergent points of view in her quest for excellence. Basic civility must be covered in some other branch of the state’s premier public university. Guala claims on her resume to possess “excellent communication skills and experience working within a global community.” The Portland Democrat may be overstating her communications skills.

Ziobron has served three terms in the House and is the Republican nominee in the 33rd Senate District, the seat currently held by Republican Art Linares, who did not seek re-election.