linda mcMahon running for Connecticut Senator?

I don’t know how they don’t consider this a bit humorous?

“At some level it’s not a surprise that someone with a lot of money who is bored in her job would run,” said Roy Occhiogrosso, a veteran Democratic strategist and Dodd supporter.

“It certainly lends itself to all kinds of interesting metaphors.”When McMahon was appointed by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to the Connecticut Board of Education, she sparked criticism from some lawmakers who said it sent a wrong message to children. Her appointment was approved by the General Assembly this year.

The WWE has been under fire in recent years following the unexpected deaths of several former and active wrestlers, some of which have been related to substance abuse. Congress asked the WWE for answers after the 2007 murder-suicide deaths of one of the WWE’s top stars, Chris Benoit, and his family.

The company in 2006 began a substance-abuse policy that requires tests for steroids and other drugs. She will limit individual contributions to $100 and won’t accept contributions from political action committees and special interests.”I am going to run a very different campaign,” she said.McMahon’s GOP rivals Foley and Simmons, meanwhile, had lighthearted responses to her entry in the contest.”When I got into the race I knew it would be a fight, but I didn’t know I’d need to be prepared for smackdowns,” Foley said.

Simmons’ spokesman Jim Barnett said his boss would run a “campaign Connecticut can be proud of, no head-butting, eye-gouging or hair-pulling.”

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