Saturday 9 October 2010

WWE hit Connecticut in the Senate to put pressure on the Declaration: APNewsBreak



ARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal on Friday released a new TV ad his Republican rival, former leader of the fight against Linda McMahon, drug and steroid tests for a variety of labor laws State accused of killing.30-second spot is the most Blumenthal McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment CEO who was until last fall is one of the critics.News and referring to documents from several states, McMahon ad accuses lobbyists of its support contract "taxes duck, and drug testing steroids to kill law protections, health and safety and to prevent its employees ".Blumenthal ad has been seen by The Associated Press before the screening will be scheduled. McMahon made a spot of airtime duel with the democratic response to the State Attorney General characteristics of the sequence after beginning his question, McMahon in a debate this week on how a work is created.The announcement suggests a response to evidence long Blumenthal was "unable to create jobs, help is not Connecticut."Heated seat in the Senate race the candidates are Chris Dodd, who is by eliminating the need to fill vacant. A recent survey by Quinnipiac University Blumenthal said McMahon, who promised no less than $ 50 million to spend their own money on the race will be closely monitored over a little. and has already spent more than 20 million since last fall.Blumenthal last announcement, his campaign said it is distributed, referred to cases where lobbyists McMahon or WWE earlier incarnations or more representatives of various state officials to encourage a professional on how to fight for change events areregulated and taxed, and lobbied against the bill on drug testing.lobbying activities of the WWE in the late 1980s and 1990s caused many, even though the company was included in the study of the recent legislation in 2007, according to data provided by the campaign Blumenthal.Robert Zimmerman, a spokesman for the WWE, said the sense of professional regulation of the national struggle, because wrestling is scripted as a sport like boxing to stop."Many of Ringling Brothers Circus and the Harlem Globetrotters, as WWE Sheer entertainment, so it would not outdated rules and the state Athletic Commission will have the regulatory capacity," he said in an e-mail .Zimmerman said that WWE is still regulated in 21 states and British Columbia, where the regulations come in the neighborhood.Talent Company Wellness Program "in a much more stringent than the requirements of any drug or medical tests" in regulation, he said. WWE Connecticut is not regulated, but the Mohegan Sun, Mohegan tribe where the commission has its own sport, said that "all medical tests and blood for the drug meets all the requirements of the WWE." Mohegan Sun Arena has held the WWE events.Blumenthal also criticized McMahon for more than $ 1 million of expenditure in Washington, DC, lobbying on a new video after a tea party in April at an event where the former director of the former CEO said, "is a dollar not spent on lobbying in Washington area.Lobbying is a reference to the new ad, the advertiser McMahon has spent "more than a million dollars to protect" their interests to say so."Linda McMahon has tried to convince people of Connecticut that is something different. But more and more we learn about his record, Washington has a clear policy as part of the problem," said a statement Mindy Myers Blumenthal's campaign manager. "A paid over a million dollars to lobbyists to defend its interests and protect their profits.Ed Patru, a spokesman for McMahon, WWE said Blumenthal is on the voters care more about jobs and the economy aims to divert attention."The election of the economy and jobs, which is Dick Blumenthal is subject to possible change is an issue, he said how many jobs are created on American candidates clueless enough to think of you" good times we had to do "economically" Patru one in an e-mail, Blumenthal said in the debate on partial comment.When McMahon announced later showing a video response to Blumenthal document Meyers encouraging, how the Democrat has raised for the people of Connecticut and as a lawyer more than 20 years, small businesses and how the WWE down 10 percentemployees to 2009, when McMahon reiterating "He won $ 46 million.Zimmerman, spokesman for the WWE, the company said its work force to pre-layoff and the entire McMahon family and $ 46 million was paid in dividends, $ 1,000,000 less than Linda to receive.