Emanuel Becomes An Issue In CT GOP Race

The WH chief of staff and former chair of the DCCC is playing a role in the GOP side of the race to replace Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), as accusations fly that one of the GOP candidates actually helped fund Dems' efforts to retake Congress.

In '06, ex-WWE CEO Linda McMahon (R) donated $10K to the DCCC -- money that helped defeat 2 CT GOP members of Congress, including McMahon's current rival, ex-Rep. Rob Simmons (R).

Simmons has used the contributions to suggest McMahon is no true conservative, while McMahon has maintained she wrote the checks as a favor to Ari Emanuel, WWE's agent and brother of then-DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel. That year, Simmons lost to now-Rep. Joe Courtney (D) by a margin of just 83 votes, after the DCCC spent hundreds of thousands on Courtney's behalf.

McMahon has maintained her donations to the GOP -- she's given thousands over the years -- are what's important, because she personally believes in the party's aims. She has also claimed she did not know who Emanuel was in '02, a stance that has Simmons' campaign crying foul.

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good enough that she participated in many of them ...

and made millions and millions off some septuagenarian giving birth to a sex toy ...

preferred money over the wellbeing of the wrestlers in the WWE, and Schiff is just an all around nutball.

Blumenthal will easily beat any of them.