Comments on: Staffers for millionaire/wrestling magnate/failed GOP Senate candidate say they were stiffed, got bad checks and condoms: "you're screwed"

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:39:00 +0000

Well, the Connecticut Democrats gave us Joe Lieberman and Chris Dodd…I think I’d just vote against any Connecticut candidates, just to be safe.

By: Katrina Blackstone

Katrina Blackstone — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:02:00 +0000

It has rubber on it…of course it will bounce…:P ok…I’m going to hell now.

By: Mister

Mister — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:26:00 +0000

Umm, isn’t that what the condom and the “you’re screwed” message imply?

By: Repurposed

Repurposed — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:10:00 +0000

Maybe this should be settled in the ring?

By: Emily Bond

Emily Bond — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:52:00 +0000

She pulled this sort of thing on her employees back when she was involved with the WWE (wrestling), too. She got beaten by a huge margin because of stuff like this, being worth that much and not paying her mortgage,…. and claiming to be pro-women’s-health and even pro-choice in her flyers the last week of the campaign, after being absolutely the opposite the whole way along. And also sending flyers to everyone EVERY FREAKING DAY, calling people at home – even those NOT registered as Republicans, buying every available minute of airtime….. And, for bonus lulz, she and another Republican got an “Independent” party (yes, really – disgusting, huh?) to put a line in and endorse them. Cause, you know, real independents are so dumb that they’re going to fall for that, even though they’re a good third of the state. This is New England; our independents are often quite proud of that fact.

The general consensus around here was that she was just an all around selfish, deceptive, spammy bitch (that’s about the nicest word people used), and that’s why almost no one but hardline Republicans voted for her… and women disliked her even more than men because she acted so nasty. Turbokoala has it right. Dunno why she didn’t learn her lesson the first time.

-another CT voter

By: Jonathan Dowland

Jonathan Dowland — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:02:00 +0000

How does anyone know that the second cheque will bounce?

By: turbokoala

turbokoala — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 04:35:00 +0000

McMahon was vile throughout the race. On election day, her “volunteers” wore purple and yellow shirts at polling stations that looked suspiciously like the logo of the SEIU. Then it turned out that the volunteers were actually paid staffers who didn’t know what McMahon stood for and were not voting for her. She hired young African-Americans to go out into black communities in the larger cities in Connecticut and tell them to split their ballot for Obama and McMahon. I hope losing a tenth of a billion dollars on campaigning has taught her to stay out for good. (source: I live in New Haven.)

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:53:00 +0000

With all the fund-raising he did — to the detriment of actual campaigning — I’ll be shocked if Mitt Romney DIDN’T divert his campaign war chest to one of the countries where his money lives.

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:49:00 +0000

Considering the proximity to Vince’s penis required I’ll grant that she earned every penny.

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Why would anyone? They already know she’s not going to pay them to!

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:35:00 +0000

But she looks so nice from the campaign picture!
From first-hand experience, point-blank range, the staffers now know what republicans are about, at the very least from now on they should change their political allegiance, and pass it on to their families, extended families, friends, etc.

By: Al_Packer

Al_Packer — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:13:00 +0000

Or she diverted the remaining funds into her own bank account.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:33:00 +0000

Hey, he got off light- she coulda kicked him in the crotch like on youtube. Besides, as a republican advising her, I think his compensation was just about what he deserved.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Came here to say this. Just a reminder that Romney’s real business expertise involved kicking his employees to the curb as soon as he could get away with it.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:41:00 +0000

I can hope that some of them channel it into a sense of perspective.

By: C W

C W — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:39:00 +0000

Hey, when you’re a campaign staffer you have no concept of what life under your candidate is going to feel like. I hope they enjoyed the taste!

By: C W

C W — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:37:00 +0000

“More like stupid.”

Only when the underclass does so. McMahon only made “an error of judgment”.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Condoms are handed out for free pretty much everywhere. They could just go to the nearest college campus and fill up the back of a pick-up.

I won’t make any inference.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Well, that’s the kind of financial planning I want in my elected leaders!

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:47:00 +0000

Accompanying Audio:
http://www.megawavs.com/play.aspx?id=6721
http://www.megawavs.com/play.aspx?id=6722

(with apologies to BB’s own Navin Johnson)

By: dejoh

dejoh — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Thats why when I do work for politicians (Signs), I always get it up front. No matter who wins, your covered.
That goes back to the stone age.

By: Jem Sweeney

Jem Sweeney — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:15:00 +0000

I was gonna say. All those condoms would have cost significant coin. Doesn’t sound fiscally responsible to me.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:04:00 +0000

If you lie down with dicks, you’re liable to wake up with condoms.

By: margaretpoa

margaretpoa — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:28:00 +0000

You supported a teabag Republican and you KNOW what they are like and you’re surprised? It would have been okay if she’d won and then screwed the rest of us in similar fashion though, I’ll bet. Cry me a river. You made your bed.

By: Bevatron Repairman

Bevatron Repairman — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:26:00 +0000

It’s certainly true that getting your bills paid by a losing campaign is hard — debts from campaigns can sit on the books for decades. My guess is that McMahon repaid as much of her campaign loans as she could with remaining cash-on-hand (there was $5M or so in mid-October, sayeth the FEC) immediately after the election and the money people didn’t account for the remaining operating expenses windup so there was no money left in the till when this guy wrote the check.

By: Hillary Rettig

Hillary Rettig — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:25:00 +0000

Stories like this one and the Romney campaign’s cancelling the credit cards before the staff even got home are of a piece with the Romney campaign’s IT screwup, a lot of which involved contempt for the workers involved (poor training, poor documentation, etc.) Typical Republican contempt for the workers, and blame for the workers when it’s the bosses who screw up.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:10:00 +0000

It seems as if the quote about the condom came from someone who was speaking metaphorically (but unclearly) and whoever wrote the original article misunderstood. The actual part was that the staffers were being sent bad checks.

By: jandrese

jandrese — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:40:00 +0000

The condom bit is pushing my BS meter into the orange. I suppose its not impossible that it happened that way, but that’s a lot of effort and expense on someone’s part. I strongly suspect that if this happened, then we’re not seeing a lot of the story here. It’s entirely possible that the person making the complaint about the bad check is a scammer or someone with a chip on their shoulder.

I have no trouble believing that McMahon is bouncing checks, but the rest of the story is too crazy to accept at face value.

By: Thomas Thurston

Thomas Thurston — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Yeah. I think in this case “basically” is being used as a synonym for “It’s as if”. But totally fucked up behavior, that is true.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:37:00 +0000

“That’s the rudest gesture you can ever do to a person, it’s like spitting in a person’s face.”

Without exercising my imagination at all, I can think of far ruder ‘gestures’. There is a lot of upside to this story: 1) Gomer got his pound of flesh and likely a valid check eventually; 2) Linda is unlikely is run for office again; 3) If she does, no experienced political staffer worth their salt will work for her.