Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon submitted her resignation Thursday from the state Board of Education after only a year’s service, saying that a new legal opinion by state elections officials restricts political activities by board members too severely for her to remain on the panel.<\/p>\n
McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, said that she regrets having to quit the state board but had to do it because of a new legal opinion by a staff attorney from the State Elections Enforcement Commission.<\/p>\n
The March 5 opinion, issued in response to a question from board chairman Allan Taylor, said that members of the panel are considered state “department heads” for the purposes of a state statute limiting political contributions and solicitation of such contributions.<\/p>\n
“As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, I frequently support, attend and speak at political events that include fundraising activities,” McMahon wrote to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. “Although the opinion does not preclude a board member from running for public office, it does disallow them from engaging in many of the activities that are necessary to be a successful candidate.”<\/p>\n
“The recent revelation of this rule has come as a surprise to me as well as to other members of the board,” she wrote. “Therefore, in order to avoid any violation of this rule or even the appearance of a violation, it is with deep regret that I must immediately resign and relinquish my position on the board.”<\/p>\n
McMahon’s nomination by Rell was approved by lawmakers in February 2009 after opposition from some at the Capitol who questioned the violent and sexually provocative content produced by WWE.<\/p>\n
“I find the sport to be bordering on the barbaric,” state Sen. Joan Hartley, a Waterbury Democrat who cast the only vote in the Senate against McMahon, said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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