Thank you Gazette Editorial Board for your opinion piece Jan. 14. To say I was shocked and saddened to hear of Alabama receiving the assignment, I am positive (as your OpEd suggests), that the current sitting president is determined to hurt those states that did not support his re-election campaign. When I moved to Colorado from blue state California to red state Colorado 31 years ago, it was a very welcome change. Slowly over the past 20 years, the state has turned blue. I’m not wild about that, but to penalize a program that should remain in Colorado Springs because you are having repeated tantrums over losing an election is beyond the rational mind of someone and particularly the president of the United States.