Emanuel Becomes An Issue In CT GOP Race

[ccharles000]

The WH chief of staff and former chair of the DCCC is playing a role in the GOP side of the race to replace Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), as accusations fly that one of the GOP candidates actually helped fund Dems' efforts to retake Congress.

In '06, ex-WWE CEO Linda McMahon (R) donated $10K to the DCCC -- money that helped defeat 2 CT GOP members of Congress, including McMahon's current rival, ex-Rep. Rob Simmons (R).

Simmons has used the contributions to suggest McMahon is no true conservative, while McMahon has maintained she wrote the checks as a favor to Ari Emanuel, WWE's agent and brother of then-DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel. That year, Simmons lost to now-Rep. Joe Courtney (D) by a margin of just 83 votes, after the DCCC spent hundreds of thousands on Courtney's behalf.

McMahon has maintained her donations to the GOP -- she's given thousands over the years -- are what's important, because she personally believes in the party's aims. She has also claimed she did not know who Emanuel was in '02, a stance that has Simmons' campaign crying foul.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/03/emanuel_becomes.php

[zbdent]

1. and yet she thought the antics of the WWE were fine ...

good enough that she participated in many of them ...

and made millions and millions off some septuagenarian giving birth to a sex toy ...

[Jennicut]

2. The GOP in CT is pathetic. Simmons was already voted out once, McMahon

preferred money over the wellbeing of the wrestlers in the WWE, and Schiff is just an all around nutball.

Blumenthal will easily beat any of them.