Last year, Linda McMahon bombarded the airwaves with attack ads and filled Connecticut mailboxes with negative mailers as she tried to buy a U.S. Senate seat with $50 million.
She lost.
(Tuesday, McMahon announced) that she is again running for a U.S. Senate seat.
While McMahon has already sought to rebrand herself this time around, Connecticut voters know her for who she really is: A CEO who made millions by putting her profits before the health and safety of her employees and by marketing a product based on sex and violence to children.
“The simple fact is that the more people learn about Linda McMahon, the less they like her,” said Connecticut Democratic Party spokesperson Jacie Falkowski. “Nothing has changed since last year. She still laid off 10 percent of her workforce in 2009. She’s still the CEO who profited from violence and the degradation of women and the CEO who allowed rampant illegal steroid use in her company. She’s still the businesswoman who didn’t offer her employees any sort basic health care and who wouldn’t rule out reducing the minimum wage.
“Connecticut voters are smarter than Linda McMahon gives them credit for, and they’re not interested in her hollow claims that she’s not a ‘politician.’ Last year, voters soundly rejected Linda McMahon, and they’ll do it again in 2012.”
