By Marcus Cygy

Original article: http://www.cygy.com/society/elections/linda-mcmahon-cannot-be-trusted-in-the-us-senate/

Contrary to what Linda McMahon has been saying in the beginning stages of her campaign to run for the United States Senate seat in Connecticut, I beg to differ on her quote about creating new jobs.

On her first ad campaign, she says, “I’ve been in business for over 30 years. I was the CEO of a publicly-traded company (WWE) that began as a modest 13-person operation and eventually grew to become a $1 billion, global enterprise that employs more than 500 people in Connecticut.”

While World Wrestling Entertainment does have over 500 employees, they also laid off thousands of workers when they bought out World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from AOL Time Warner in 2001, before shutting the company down. WWE also purchased the assets of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), after raiding that company’s employees, which plunged them into bankruptcy.

In the 1980’s, Vince and Linda McMahon destroyed the territorial structure of professional wrestling when they they founded the “WrestleMania” pay-per-view extravaganza in 1984. It was a concept they developed after witnessing the success of “Starrcade,” an event established by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1983.

Following the inception of “WrestleMania,” both Vince and Linda McMahon made it their mission to threaten cable networks and pay-per-view providers to carry WWE programming instead of NWA programming, otherwise the success of “WrestleMania” would be shopped to other networks they said. This in turn put the ailing NWA into bankruptcy when their programming was dropped because of an ill fated motive put on by the McMahon’s. Another wrestling promotion by the name of the American Wrestling Association (AWA) was also put under by the McMahon’s, which led to the arrival of famed wrestling icon Hulk Hogan into the annals of the WWE.

Among other wrestling promotions that suffered the same fates because of the McMahon’s were World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF). The United States was not the only country that suffered though, Canada’s biggest promotion Stampede Wrestling was bought out in 1984 and that forced Calgary native Bret “Hitman” Hart into the WWE. He was publicly fired live on-the-air during the “Survivor Series” pay-per-view in what became known as the “Montreal Screwjob” in 1997. That moment in wrestling history is still looked back on quite often because of the sheer unprofessionalism on WWE’s part.

Today, WWE is in the midst of raiding talent from the Ring of Honor (ROH) Wrestling organization to kill off any momentum they have gained during the past year on HDNet every Monday against WWE’s flagship program, “Monday Night RAW.”

So for Linda McMahon’s 30-plus year as a business woman with the WWE, she has been in business to bankrupt other working men and women within the industry of sports entertainment. She is no different than any other Republican on Wall Street, the catalysts of today’s global bankruptcy.

Near the end of McMahon’s ad campaign, she says “most importantly, we deserve a Senator who will be frank and honest.”

If she can’t be honest in her first ad campaign, she will never be one to tell the truth. The words she’ll speak of will be twisted facts manipulated into what she will come to believe as being the truth and there will be no convincing her otherwise, which is typical Republican fashion.

She won’t even mention the WWE by name in her ad campaign because last week, their former World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy was arrested after police discovered 262 Vicodin pills, 180 Soma pills, about half a litre of an unspecified anabolic steroid, a residual amount of powder cocaine and drug paraphernalia. Hardy has also been charged for allegedly trafficking opium, which could amount to a sentence of three to 14 years in prison.

Linda McMahon had been an active advocate for WWE’s wellness policy which fights against drug use in their company, yet they failed to prevent the Benoit tragedy in 2007 when 40-year-old wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and seven-year-old son before committing suicide. Autopsies revealed that xanax and hyrdocodone drugs were found in Benoit’s body, in addition to elevated levels of testosterone cypionate. His brain was also found to be comparable to an 84-year-old man with Alzheimer’s due to the years of abuse in the wrestling ring.

WWE established their wellness program after the death of 38-year-old Eddie Guerrero in 2005. It was a drug related death that caught the attention of Congress, so the WWE was forced to take action; however, they seemed to pick and choose which active wrestling performers they wanted to test in the company. None of the main superstars like the statures of Triple H, Batista, John Cena, and The Undertaker were ever publicly tested and that proved how fraudulent WWE’s wellness program was and still is today.

Can you believe Linda McMahon if she has falsified her past 30 years as a business woman for a company she fails to even mention? If this was a Democratic candidate we were talking about, I’m sure the Republicans would be throwing their arms up left and right to get the true information out in the open. So here I am, a Canadian doing what I think is right as an active follower of the Democratic Party. It’s fair game in my books.

Once the dust settles around the breaking news of Linda McMahon’s pursuance into the political world, she’s going to have a heck of a time wrestling for Senator Chris Dodd’s spot. Trusting a businesswoman who has been in business with a corrupt corporation for over 30 years is like trusting President George W. Bush to come up with an intelligent solution to problematic matters at hand. Americans trusted him, yet he pulled the country into an economic recession and had no idea how to fix it.

In the end, I think that Chris Dodd has a great chance at retaining his seat in the US Senate upon beginning his sixth term in the state of Connecticut. Public polls have shown an increase in popularity for Senator Dodd; however, if I had a choice I would be more comfortable with Democratic candidate Merrick Alpert in the US Senate instead.