The Connecticut Republican Primary has just concluded, and Linda McMahon is their candidate for the open seat from Connecticut within the US Senate. One seat is being contested this November. She’s the previous CEO of WWE Entertainment and wife of Vince McMahon Jr. She stepped down from her position within the company to run for the Senate seat that will be vacant soon, as Senator Chris Dodd is retiring as soon as his term expires.
GOP can smell what McMahon is cooking
Part of Linda McMahon’s campaign is not taking any campaign contributions from public funds, Political Action Committees or special interests. According to ABC, she’s spent $ 22 million of her own money on her campaign so far and doesn’t mind spending a lot more between now and November. She’s running against Dick Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General since 1991 and previously a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Connecticut State Senate.
What is it she stands for?
Linda McMahon is a classic neo-conservative. She advocates for fiscally conservative policies, specific deregulation and creating jobs in the private sector are big topics for her. She expressed agreement with Obama’s approach to the Afghan war, and she is somewhat hawkish on Iran. She has broken with mainstream Republicans, having donated money to a pro-choice Republican PAC, though she’s also opposed to partial-birth abortion. She is friendlier to LGBT issues than the President has seemed to be so far, as she is for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policies and doesn’t think the federal government should have a say concerning gay marriage.
So what’s the bottom line?
She is, assuredly, another famous and wealthy person running for office. Not that we have not seen that before, but she was the CEO of a business that became the only professional wrestling organization to be publicly traded and almost as popular as NASCAR. (The McMahons own a large majority of the shares.) She has some very popular platforms, and she may well prove to be precisely what voters are looking for. So what are you going to do, brother, when Wrestle mania goes to Washington?
Further reading on this topic
ABC News
abcnews.com/george/2010/08/linda-mcmahon-i-will-spend-what-it-takes.html
CT Mirror
ctmirror.org/story/5215/mcmahons-investment-produces-its-first-returns
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