Violence, Lingerie and Linda McMahon
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Linda McMahon is running for U.S. Senate.
Superstar Billy Graham is angry. Not the spiritual leader who has counseled presidents for decades, but a champion wrestler from the 1970s and '80s.
Graham is speaking out against his one-time boss and current Senate candidate Linda McMahon, according to the Hartford Courant.
McMahon was his boss when she worked for World Wrestling Entertainment but she resigned as CEO to take on Sen. Christopher Dodd in the fall of 2010.
Her campaign ads mention that she operated a successful business with her husband, Vince McMahon, but the ads don't mention that business was the multi-million dollar WWE empire, so Graham calls McMahon a hypocrite, pointing out she's made millions from violence, sexual exploitation and excess of professional wrestling, .
He's most angry about McMahon's efforts to tone down the WWE after she announced her run for office. Graham says those moves in the ring include extreme violence and women dressed in lingerie. He says some female wrestlers were posing in Playboy as late as 2008, but that has all stopped now that McMahon is running for office.
The WWE and Linda McMahon's campaign both dismiss Graham as a bitter former employee with an ax to grind.
Graham admits he's disgruntled, angry about having no pension and no continuing health care from his wrestling career.
Posted Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 - 2:45 PM EST
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