RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: QUEEN OF THE POLITICAL RING: Mighty Linda McMahon WINS GOP SENATE NOD at Connecticut State Party Confab. NO INCUMBENT IS SAFE IN 2010!

Friday, May 21, 2010

QUEEN OF THE POLITICAL RING: Mighty Linda McMahon WINS GOP SENATE NOD at Connecticut State Party Confab. NO INCUMBENT IS SAFE IN 2010!

By Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/
May 21, 2010
11:30 p.m.

Hartford. –

Talk about a "political body slam!" No incumbent or "political insider" is safe in 2010. Period!

Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon captured the GOP Party endorsement Friday night in the first round of balloting at the State Republican Party Convention tonight.

Mc Mahon, defeated early front runner and longtime Connecticut GOP insider pol ex. Rep. Rob Simmons.

Simmons, who is politically beaten up tonight by Mc Mahon, is not taking his defeat sitting down on the mat, so to speak.

He announced that he will stay in the Aug. 10 primary despite telling the press throughout the race, and as recently as Wednesday, that he would drop out of the race if he didn't receive the party's nod at the convention.

Trust me, you don't wanna mess with Linda Mc Mahon.

I first met Linda back in the early 1990's when I worked as the Director of Sales at Viewer's Choice Pay Per View, and she and her ex-hubby Vince Mc Mahon oversaw the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) which then became the World Wrestling Entertainment. I use to work with the Mc Mahon's and on events like "WrestleMania" and "Smack down" and other mega arena events that would bring in $50,000,000 per pay per view event.

McMahon’s win and Simmons’ announcement set Republicans up for a contentious primary this summer, just days after a damaging New York Times report about the presumed Democratic nominee Richard Blumenthal misrepresenting his record of military service appeared to aid Republican hopes of claiming the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Chris Dodd (D).

McMahon received 737 votes, Simmons received 632 votes and businessman Peter Schiff had 44 votes after the first round of ballots. According to state party convention rules, a candidate must receive over 50 percent to receive the party’s endorsement and McMahon had almost 52 percent of the vote.

So, get ready to rumble.

Ah, sorry.

This campaign in Connecticut is going to get really nasty and fun to watch from the comfort of your living room!

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”