PLAINVILLE, Conn. (AP) - A top Connecticut labor union leader has resigned after a union-backed political group ran a campaign ad linking the survivor of a deadly home invasion to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The SEIU Connecticut State Council announced Thursday that Paul Filson has stepped down as executive director.
The union says the online ad exhibited poor judgment and shouldn’t have run. It apologized to the target of the ad, Dr. William Petit (PEHT’-it), a Republican running for the state legislature from Plainville. Petit’s wife and two daughters were killed in the 2007 attack.
The ad says, “Stop Donald Trump and Republican William Petit’s attacks on women and families.”
State Rep. Betty Boukus (BOH’-kis), Petit’s Democratic opponent, has said she was horrified by the ad, and Filson has publicly expressed remorse.
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