Former WWE CEO with groin-kicking track record seeking Senate seat

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'WASHINGTON – Pro wrestling executive Linda McMahon (link added) has never been shy about wading into the ring — and now she's plotting a smackdown of Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday McMahon has resigned as the company's chief executive to seek the Republican nomination for Dodd's Connecticut seat, providing a show-business twist to one of the nation's marquee Senate races.
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McMahon and her family have been occasional performers. McMahon, who typically worked behind the scenes at the WWE, has said she's appeared in portions of the shows at least several dozen times during her more than 25-year-career. One video on the Internet shows her in the ring, appearing to kick a man in the groin.
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McMahon could face criticism for some unsavory aspects of WWE's programming, particularly its sexually suggestive and violent themes. There could also be questions about whether her candidacy is motivated at least in part as a public relations ploy.

"At some level it's not a surprise that someone with a lot of money who is bored in her job would run," said Roy Occhiogrosso, a veteran Democratic strategist and Dodd supporter. "It certainly lends itself to all kinds of interesting metaphors."'