Linda McMahon won the Republican party’s endorsement yesterday at the Connecticut Republican Convention in Hartford, getting 737 delegate votes against the 632 for Simmons.

The actual election will be done in November however getting the nod from your party is a major, major win for the once former WWE Chief Executive Officer.

“We are rebuilding and re-energizing the Republican Party in Connecticut,” McMahon told delegates.

Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon-Levesque and her husband Triple H were all with Linda, one of the very few rare occasions that the whole family has been seen together with Linda during her short political career.

When addressing her potential Democratic opponent, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, McMahon said, “I venture we’re going to lay the smackdown on him come November.”

Source wrestling-online.com

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The New York Times ran a big article this weekend on WWE and their celebrity guest host program with quotes from some of the past hosts and WWE stars.

After SNL and MacGruber star Will Forte compared WWE to SNL, Stephanie McMahon made a reference to SNL’s creator Lorne Michaels and her father Vince. “Vince would hate that I said this,” she said. “But he and Lorne Michaels are a lot alike. They both have a clear vision, and they both know exactly how they want you to execute it.”

Source Lords of Pain

A bit late, sorry, but Stephanie appeared at the Shareholders meeting the WWE holds annually. Heavily pregnant, Mrs. McMahon answered a reporter’s question.

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I was about to just post a pic of HHH exiting the Levesque’s new tour bus, but then I found some additional news regaring the new bus. Here’s the actual article from KLQ Wrestling. And you can see HHH’s funny photo below, picture credit Linda.

Music City Coach is suing Star City Coach for breach of contract, conversion of property and other issues related to a bus that was to be leased by the WWE for Triple H & Stephanie McMahon.

Music City hired Star City to customize the coach bus for Triple H and family to use while on the road for WWE. There were issues with payments and Star City went well past the due date to deliver the bus causing Music City to get an injunction.

The WWE, Paul Levesque & Stephanie McMahon Levesque have been named as third party defendants in the counter-claim filed by Star City. Star City claims that WWE, Paul, Stephanie and other employees of Music City are jointly and severally responsible for the $200,000+ payment that is due to them.

I’ve added some Steph pix from WWE.com, including images from the Top 25 Most Bizarre Matches and the Top 25 Entourages of all time.

Articles:
Top 25 Entourages of All Time - here
Top 25 Most Bizarre Matches - here

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On last week’s radio show, Hulk Hogan addressed the long-standing internet rumor (link) about an alleged incident between Randy “Macho Man” Savage and Stephanie McMahon that was rumored to have happened many years ago.

A listener called the show and asked Hogan, “There’s a lot of urban legends in the professional wrestling business, however this one has a little merit because a lot of guys won’t touch it. Would you comment, since you have nothing to lose right now, on the infamous rumor about Randy Savage and Stephanie McMahon?”

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This is from the Wrestling Observer and was sent 4 years ago, on January 21, 2006. It certainly paints a clearer picture of Kanyon as a person and on what he was thinking:

Dear Stephanie, I will try to make this as short as possible. And I am sorry to bother you. Four plus years ago, when I was wrestling for your company, I came up with an idea. You see, I am gay, but at the time, I was heavily closeted. My idea was to be the first ever openly gay active pro athlete in the five major U.S. pro sports of pro baseball, basketball, wrestling, football or hockey. By lumping wrestling in with the other four, I thought there was great potential for mainstream publicity. First step was to come out to family and friends, but at the age of 31, that was harder than I thought. After telling just two people, I stopped. And I shelved the idea, always planning on going back to it.

Well, soon after, I suffered my two injuries. First my knee, then my shoulder. Then depression set in. Then I got fired. Depression got much worse. I finally sought help. Through therapy, I came to terms with my sexuality and began coming out to family and friends and really began preparing to meet with your father to give him my ideas and thoughts. I began saving newspaper articles and magazines articles. I began studying sexuality and how it relates to religion and psychology and sociology to prepare for any potential mainstream appearances from Howard Stern, Larry King, Good Morning America, The O’Reilly Factor, The Daily Show, Leno to Letterman. I believe and still do, especially with the recent stunning success of Brokeback Mountain, the “gay cowboy movie,” that there was and still is great mainstream potential.

And I wrote ideas for storylines. Ideas of how to introduce this aspect of the Chris Kanyon character. How to use this aspect of the character to build and advance feuds and storylines. Ideas for interviews and vignettes. Then I started taking independent bookings to make sure I would be in shape for when I tried to get the meeting with Vince. I set a time frame of March, #1 to coincide with the Academy Awards in case Brokeback Mountain does well and gets positive mainstream press and #2 to coincide with WrestleMania in case the company wanted to introduce new ideas right after the upsurge in interest that always follows WrestleManias.

Then yesterday, I read online that Orlando Jordan was going to start a bisexual gimmick. I confirmed this with some current WWE employees. I was completely devastated. My main, and at times, only motivation for getting out of bed, for training, and for pushing on, this idea to be first, to be a true role model, to help young struggling confused kids, this idea that I felt and believed to be my destiny, well, I saw it possibly slipping away. So I decided to send this e-mail. I don’t want to steal someone’s idea or gimmick or glory. But please believe me, I had this idea 4+ years ago and spoke of it with some of your current contracted wrestlers months and months ago. Personally, I feel doing bisexual as opposed to gay is very much diluting the potential. I am also very confident that I am the perfect person to do this, that I can definitely pull off the in ring work as well as the publicity and mainstream aspects that I feel would help make this a main-event character. We only get one chance to be first at something. I would hate to see it diluted and not used to its maximum potential, especially if the only reason was that the company did not know there was someone like me, who is ready and comfortable and able to carry the load in the ring and, in mainstream appearances, do well and resent himself professionally and intelligently, already preparing for this opportunity.

I truly appreciate your time. And I hope you don’t mind me reaching out to you. You were always very nice to me when I worked for you and I now feel afraid, lost, confused and desperate. Any advice or recommendations you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Sincerely

Chris “Kanyon” Klucsaritis

Stephanie McMahon attended the annual Hall of Fame ceremony. Judging by Steph’s face expression, The Billion Dollar Princess was none too pleased to be at the event.

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Linda McMahon recently sat down with local supporters for coffee talk. Apparantly Stephanie McMahon was keeping her mother company as she also attended the event.

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If WWE’s global domination has mostly consisted of exporting Americana, it has also tried to create a global village of its own with Superstars— they don’t call them wrestlers—from all over the world, even if some of them, like Canadian-cum-Russian-cum- Italian Santino Marella seem to change nationalities at the drop of a hat. “We are making more of an effort to recruit from other countries,” says Stephanie McMahon, EVP of creative development and operations, who is currently looking to China for talent. McMahon is part of the team with her father, Vince, and a dozen or so secretive writers who create and re-create the WWE Universe each week. They still thrive on caricatures, like the hot-tempered Irishman and the lusty Italian. But the overtly nationalistic narratives, like Sgt. Slaughter beating up on the Iranian Iron Sheik in the 1980s, have been toned down. “The over-the-top character rooted in the xenophobic mentality,” former writer Paul Heyman says, “the WWE is really trying to get away from that.”

Complete article - here

HHH recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal, discussing topics like his storyline with Stephanie and how he suddenly fell in love with the boss’ daughter. He also mentions laying the SmackDown on Stephanie, whenever she brings work at home. Hunter also mentions the commercial Steph did for Linda’s campaign. Thanks Linda!

WWE.com lsited the 25 most impactful Women in the WWE. Stephanie was placed 5th.

From T-Shirt model in early WWE Shop catalogs to sawy WWE executive, Stephanie McMahon’s passion for power has taken her a long way. The Daughter of the WWE Chairman, she may’ve been christened “Billion Dollar Princess” but the former Women’s Champion is just as bold and enterprising as her dad. Steph’s betrothal to Triple H birthed the infamous McMahon-Helmsley Era, while the Invasion she pioneered in 2001 nearly drove her father out of business. But familial strife aside, none can disagree that daddy’s little girl has grown up to become one of the most influential women of the squared circle.

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Here’s Linda McMahon’s reply to the question whether or not Stephanie McMahon is once again pregnant:

yes it’s true and the family is very excited.

WWE.com is currently celebrating Women’s history month. There are several photos available of Stephanie vs Trish from No Way Out 2001, as well as a single photo of The Billion Dollar Princess holding the Women’s championship. These are all available at the galleries.

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Visibly pregnant, but not yet officially confirmed, Stephanie McMahon appeared along with her brother at Linda McMahon’s first debate this political season. The rumors are suggesting McMahon is expected to give birth to her third child in August.

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