Planned Parenthood Targets Women Voters With McMahon-WWE Mailers

[babylonsister]

Planned Parenthood Targets Women Voters With McMahon-WWE Mailers

By Steve Peoples | October 26, 2010 2:40 PM


Planned Parenthood is using the final days of the election to go after wrestling executive turned Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon in a mail campaign targeting thousands of Connecticut women.

CQ Politics obtained the mailers, which describe scenes from WWE events that Democrats have long been trying to use against McMahon.

"Linda McMahon is an out-of-touch millionaire who made her fortune from sex, violence, and exploitation of women," reads the first of three double-sided pieces of mail sent to roughly 10,000 female independents over the last eight days, including one piece today.

Team McMahon, meanwhile said the mailers smack of coordination and accused Planned Parenthood of being a Democratic front group. A McMahon spokesman said if his boss were a Democrat Planned Parenthood would "be thanking her" for all WWE did for young girls. Instead, the McMahon campaign thinks the group is working with her rival state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D).

One of the mailers features a color photo of an empty wrestling ring and the following text:

"A woman stands before thousands of cheering men while her employer commands her to get down on her hands and knees and bark like a dog, before she is forced to remove her clothing," it reads. "Another woman is seemingly knocked unconscious by a muscular man, and as he stands over her, he forces a kiss upon her lifeless face as a ring announcer claims that the woman 'liked it.'

The mailer notes: "And Linda McMahon says the WWE: 'Is all about entertainment.'"

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[geardaddy]

1. Good for Planned Parenthood

McMahon is a creep.

[rcrush]

2. Linda McMahon isn't anything.

Vince McMahon wants to buy a senate seat. Thats all this is.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The Democratic Party conducted focus groups of women in the early spring.

They found that women really did not like the WWE's programming and that a case could be made against Linda McMahon based upon this alone.
Richard is winning the female vote by a 2:1 margin(at least).

[CTyankee]

4. har de har har...remember that early mcmahon ad where the two

women in the car and one of them calls WWE stuff "soap operas."

some soap operas...

[Dawson Leery]

5. Women are not amused nor swayed by Linda's ad blitz either.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Why haven't NOW, NARAL, and Planned Parenthood been more in the media

concerning rightwing female candidates like Fiorina, Palin, McMahon, Whitman, etc.?

Do they lose tax exempt status if they are partisan?

[babylonsister]

7. I don't know; that's a good question. nt

[CTyankee]

8. Planned Parenthood is a bit leery of "helping" candidates.

It becomes the brush to tar the Dem that PP is supporting. They feel the abortion issue cuts too much in a negative way.