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Linda McMahon's Campaign Ad Mentions 'Company,' Leaves Off Part About WWE

Last week, Linda McMahon, WWE CEO and wife to Vince, formally announced that she would enter the Connecticut Senate race. One of the biggest obstacles she'll face in a crowded Republican field will be her 30-year association with professional wrestling, especially, as The Fix's Chris Cillizza wrote at the time, "...the sort purveyed by Linda's husband Vince -- is heavy on lewd storylines and the constant whispers of steroid abuse"

So how do you run for national office while tiptoeing around how you spent the previous three decades of your professional life? Glad you asked. (Via Hugging Harold Reynolds):

Stephanie McMahon Talks Steroids, Tells Congress That Hulk Hogan Is 'Terrible'


When the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform decided to look into steroid and illegal drug use in pro wrestling, three members of the McMahon family were called to testify. We've already addressed the testimony of WWE head Vince McMahon and his wife Linda McMahon, but the appearance before the committee of daughter Stephanie McMahon Levesque may have been the most interesting.

Linda McMahon Suggests Ted Turner Lured Wrestlers by Not Testing for Steroids

In the early 1990s, the WWF (now WWE) made a concerted effort to combat a public perception that its stars were using steroids, with wrestlers like Hulk Hogan appearing in videos like this to praise the organization's drug testing policies:



But by the mid-90s, the professional wrestling landscape had changed significantly, with Ted Turner offering huge sums of money to lure wrestlers to his promotion, the WCW.

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