In a statement issued to Daniela Altimari of the Hartford Courant (see http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2010/10/blumenthal-on-wrestling-regula.html):
“Dick Blumenthal believes that strong oversight and enforcement of existing laws is critical. Connecticut’s next United States Senator should examine what additional protections will be needed. Dick Blumenthal will do that, if he is elected.”
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For more on today’s Hartford media appearance by Mike Benoit, Chris’s father, see “Father of dead wrestler criticizes McMahon, WWE,” by Mark Pazniokas, Connecticut Mirror, http://ctmirror.org/story/8163/father-dead-wrestler-criticizes-mcmahon-wwe.
One of the things Benoit mentioned was World Wrestling Entertainment’s hiring of a private investigator in Georgia, an ex-FBI agent named Cliff Cormany, who tried to pass himself off to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office as a representative of the Benoit family.
I told that story in a May 15, 2008, post on this blog, which can be viewed at https://wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/archive-51508-ex-fbi-agent-working-for-wwe-poses-as-benoit-family-investigator/.
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“Michael Benoit, father of former WWE star Chris Benoit, calls for greater regulation of wrestling industry; does Dick Blumenthal agree?”, Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant, http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2010/10/michael-benoit-father-of-forme.html
“Chris Benoit’s Father Points Finger At Linda McMahon,” Rick Green, Hartford Courant, http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2010/10/wwe-chris-benoits-father-point.html
“Dead wrestler’s dad hopes Senator Blumenthal will clean-up wrestling,” Brian Lockhart, Hearst newspapers, http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2010/10/25/dead-wrestlers-dad-hopes-senator-blumenthal-will-clean-up-wrestling/
“Benoit’s father criticizes McMahon and WWE,” Ted Mann, New London Day, http://www.theday.com/article/20101025/NWS12/101029759/1018
The real Linda McMahon campaign begins in earnest today as Michael Benoit – father of Chris Benoit, the World Wrestling Entertainment star who killed his wife, his son, and himself in Georgia in 2007 – appears in Hartford at a press conference arranged by McMahon’s Connecticut Senate opponent, Richard Blumenthal.
The real Linda McMahon campaign is the one to hold her and her husband Vince McMahon’s publicly traded corporation accountable for the unbelievable and decadent pandemic of deaths of workers in the junk-entertainment industry it dominates.
The fake Linda McMahon campaign, the Senate race, has been over for some time. The new Rasmussen poll shows that Blumenthal has extended his double-digit lead.
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