McMahon’s WWE at XL Center. Setting the Record Straight or just the Same Old glorified Violence and Women Hate

Paul Bass/NH Independent

Yesterday, the McMahon’s put on a WWE event at Hartford’s XL center in the hopes of clarifying what the McMahon’s claim have been some “inaccuracies” being stated in the media about the WWE. The goal was to have folks come out and experience firsthand the “brand” of “family” fun McMahon’s WWE offers.

On the surface, that seems fair enough. When I read the article by Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent about the WWE event, it confirmed for me that the McMahon’s “brand” of “family” fun is demeaning to women and glorifies violence:

Congressman John Larson. Working for us!

John Larson. In his own words:”Economy & Small BusinessMy top priority is to rebuild our economy and invest in a strong economic foundation for our future. After eight years of failed leadership and a lack of oversight under the Bush Administration, we are taking action to ensure that our government works for middle class and working Americans – not just the wealthy and connected. Specifically, I voted to pass legislation that gave 95% of American workers a tax cut, set the foundation for rebuilding America’s road, rail and water infrastructure, banned unfair credit card abuses, passed a budget blueprint that will cut the Bush deficit by nearly two-thirds over 4 years, and created a system that created incentives for lenders and homeowners to avoid foreclosure.”

Congressman John Larson. Working for US!, posted with vodpod

George Jepsen: Eligiblity Challenge Frivolous

GEORGE JEPSEN, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CALLS CHALLENGE TO ELIGIBILITY ‘FRIVOLOUS’

For immediate release | Oct. 26, 2010

HARTFORD – Democratic candidate George Jepsen said Tuesday that the legal challenge to his qualifications to run for Attorney General in Connecticut was without merit and a waste of the court’s time and the state’s money.

Voter Intimidation 2010. How to run a Campaign When you’re Not Qualified for the Job.

To be or not to be a viable candidate. That is the question. Were a lie better put to use than on the lips of those who have nothing to offer us but lies, cheap shots, and the ultimate shame of promoting bigotry, hate and fear. Of whom do I speak? Pick one. All across our country, we’re experiencing the worst of what we we, as human beings — let alone Americans. Most recently, we witnessed the worst.

What we are learning during this tumultuous midterm election season is how to run a political campaign when you’re not qualified for the job. The lesson is frightening and rather apartheidian.

• Lie about your qualifications
• Get foreign companies to pump millions of dollars into your candidacy
• Lie about your opponent
• Intimidate non-white voters into not voting — and if that fails, simply tell them not to vote.
• Invoke divine intervention – God made me do this

Connecticut’s Quite Corner is Quiet No More.

Nestled in Connecticut’s northeastern corner is a group of determined folks working for change. The Quite Corner Democrats is a group of town committees representing the small and often sprawling towns of Ashford, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Colchester, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Franklin, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Lisbon, Mansfield, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Salem, Scotland, Sprague, Sterling, Thompson, Union, Willington, Windham and Woodstock. 

There are 115,000 voters in this area and because of the open space and sprawl, no one canvasses. The QCD changed that this past Saturday.

“The Quiet Corner Canvass last Saturday was quite a success! We delivered lit for all the candidates, both Statewide and local, in 13 towns. Over 15 volunteers helped prep for the canvass, and over 80 people took part on Saturday! It was also great to see that over a dozen seniors from Putnam Science Academy helped us.” said Chriss Pitts who is leading the field movement across the district. Chris also noted that seven of the the seniors from Putnam Science Academy manned the phones at the Ashford regional Democratic headquarters last night.

Bold Progressives People-Powered Ad. Iowa Republican not so fired up by Sen. Grassely.

The millions spent on anonymous, corporate-funded attack ads against Democrats is sickening. Frankly, it’s a poison on our democracy. Today, Bold Progressive is offering part of the antidote. A people-powered TV ad — funded in the light of day by ordinary citizens — that goes on offense against one of the worst (and craziest) corporate senators: Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

This could be the best TV ad of the entire election. Watch it, and please donate $4 to help us air it in Iowa.

US Senate Candidates should at least have basic knowledge of the US Constitution

People for the American Way’s petition to US Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell:  Dear Ms. O’Donnell, As a candidate for U.S. Senate, you should display at least a basic knowledge of our Constitution and its First Amendment, which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” When Sarah Palin took to the airwaves to spread her dangerously flawed understanding of freedom of speech, tens of thousands of activists joined PFAW in sending her copies of the First Amendment to help her get it. Now it seems that her protege, Christine O’Donnell — the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware — needs help understanding the separation of church and state.

Jeff Wright. BUSTED!

The Power of Our Vote is Priceless

Some may find Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) a bit over the top when it comes to firing back at the tea party people. The GOTea Party has come at Grayson full throttle with lots of funding from folks like the Koch brothers and others. Guess who is winning — the people, hands down. We’re winning because folks got on the phone and made 20,000 calls this week and 16,000 last week just in Grayson’s district. That is power that money cannot buy.

This kind of activity is happening all across America. Folks have tunned out the babblings of Glenn Beck, Christine O’Donnell and the rest of the Sarah Palin crew. Instead, they are knocking on doors, making phone calls, writing postcards, hosting meet and greets in their living rooms sharing the truth about the Affordable Care Act and more.

And all the talk about spending $50 million or more to win a seat tells us just where that candidate is really coming from. Linda McMahon might reconsider spending $50 million on her campaign and placing it in a rainy day fund just in case the families of the 17 deceased wrestlers decide to file a lawsuit of some kind.

Answer the Call.

It’s like that first day of stepping into your first class at university. The pavement seems profoundly hard, books smell particularly sweet. Your heart is bursting with a sense of expectation mingled with a healthy dollop of terror. Several years later and a lifetime coupon for Creamora and No Doz, you made it through the portal and managed to land feet first into the real world, ready to embark upon a career of changing that world. There’s a call gnawing inside with eyes of a broken child, peering into yours and grasping at your heart.

The huddled masses becomes your mantra and after marching for human rights, somewhere along the road your sneakers were replaced with smart looking heels or wing-tips. Before you know it, that’s your face on a lit drop piece, telling the world how you are the one. The right woman or the right man for the job. A thousand handshakes, speeches, forums, television ads, talk shows, interviews, poking and prying into the deepest crevices of your life later, you stop one morning and wonder, where’s that feeling you had on that first day.

Books don’t smell as sweet and your heart is bursting from heartburn from indulging in too many hors d’oeuvres at too many meet and greets. If only you could just be still for a moment and listen to your hair grow.

It’s raining. It’s too early. It’s too late. No matter, you must arise and awake and head out to once again face another day of huddled masses waiting for you, eager to hear your words. The words they hunger for with an unparalleled expectation that your words will ease their individual and collective plight.

What drives you the candidate to be there no matter what? It is that call within that was there even before that first day. It is that relentless call that will not be still will not be silent and will continue to call you until you answer. Like the call, the answer is in your heart. It is not your wallet, your glossy eight by ten, that matters to us the voter. It is what is in your heart that matters to us most.

Pushout. The Underside of High School Drop Out.

This article also crossposted to E2010 WIRED

The film that has us all a buzz over the past couple of months is “Waiting for Superman.” There’s another group of film-makers producing films about the plight they face as high school students in an urban center. Nestled the heart of distinguished institutions of higher learning that include Yale University, Albertus Magnus,University of New Haven and Southern Connecticut State University are high school students with little hope of success stacked up against a mountain of failure-expectation. They began their own quest to encourage each other and tell their story,Youth Rights Media.

Connecticut Citizens Unable to see Russia from their Windows.

I guess we should all feel rather a bit sorry for GOP candidates like Linda McMahon. There just isn’t much she has to offer except for a penchant for flaunting how much money she can spend on her campaign. In my youth, we used to call that the nouveau riche. Literally translated, the new rich; those who have acquired a lot of wealth within their generation. In Linda’s case, that’s all she has acquired. Linda’s newly acquired wealth quite naturally falls in line with the less kind definition of nouveau riche, which  is “for the purposes of social class distinction, to describe persons with newfound wealth as vulgar—lacking the experience or finesse to use wealth in the same manner as old money—persons from families who have been wealthy for multiple generations. And then we have Ms Palin’s endorsement of Ms. Manmahon. We all wonder whether Palin will venture to Connecticut.

Should Palin come to Connecticut, hopefully she will have an “advance team” that will properly brief her about Connecticut. Namely, one cannot see Russia from any window in any house within our borders. Those large animals on leashes are dogs and not moose; no shooting please. Considering two thirds of the jobs in this state require secondary degrees, babbling on and on in a non-sensical way is prohibited.

In Linda’s case, she has spared us the endless babble that we are hearing from Palin, O’Donnell, Beck, etc. Linda’s tactic is to simply lie as if that were any better than babbling. I guess the lies are a little more tolerable. Sigh … the things one must endure with the  … other classes. In the spirit of tolerance, we will simply ignore Ms. Palin and Ms. McMahon and vote for someone who may not have all that money but certainly has the qualities, integrity and professionalism coupled with a proven track record, to lead our state.

Can Linda’s Money Buy her a Seat in the Senate?

McMahon stated early on that she would spend up to $50 million of her own money to win Connecticut’s US Senate race. Politics is no stranger to candidates with money. As shown in CNN’s launch of its looking at candidates who spend incredible amounts to win an election, history often shows otherwise. At the end of the day, its the people at the ballot box who decide!

Linda McMahon Raw

There are web sites devoted to how many wrestlers have died from drug usage — even this year — and Linda McMahon and you listen to McMahon being called out by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and she denies it all.

Most likely her communications team thought this might be a good approach. Too bad one of them had a wedding to attend and was not able prevent McMahon from saying how she would cut social security by 10 percent. Then there is her rather weak stance on demeaning women in the WWE, “U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon defended World Wrestling Entertainment’s treatment of women in a television interview aired Sunday and indicated she would oppose efforts to censor similar programming.” [....]