WWE Responds To Criticism

In Conn’s Political Ring

HARTFORD (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment is campaigning against what it says are unfair attacks on the company coming out of the US Senate race in Connecticut.

A spokesman for former WWE chief executive Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate, says she has nothing to do with the “Stand up for WWE” campaign launched Monday by the company and her husband, Vince McMahon, the WWE’s chairman.

Vince McMahon and several professional wrestlers are appearing in videos on the company’s website and social networking sites defending WWE’s content and treatment of wrestlers.

Democratic candidate Richard Blumenthal’s campaign has accused Linda McMahon of not caring about the health of WWE wrestlers. She also has been criticized over the past portrayal of women in some wrestling plot lines.