McMahon’s Dead Wrestler Problem?

Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon (R-CT)
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It’s not a problem I can think of from any past campaign I’ve covered or observed. But it’s starting to be clear that Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon has a real dead wrestler problem. Not only are there on-going concerns and accusations that many pro wrestlers have died prematurely because of a mix of hard living, management-indulged steroid abuse and frequent injuries. But a growing number have actually died prematurely just during this campaign (three in the last twelve months). And it’s starting to become a real problem dogging her campaign, generating a litany of bad headlines and tragic storylines in the press. Read our story here.

Presuambly it’s a real problem for the bereaved families, the widows and the orphans too. But that goes without saying.

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