Article in support of Linda McMahon's appointment to the Connecticut Board of Education

The recent appointment of Linda McMahon of Greenwich to the State Board of Education by Gov. M. Jodi Rell is not as wacky as some seem to think. What would be much worse would be the failure to reappoint the current board chairman, Allan B. Taylor.

Ms. McMahon, a Rell campaign contributor, is chief executive officer of Stamford-based World Wrestling Entertainment, and sometimes takes part in the turnbuckle melodrama. A video circulating on the Internet shows Ms. McMahon in the ring delivering a well-placed knee to a man with whom she was apparently displeased.

But this is show business; primitive, perhaps, but popular. Ms. McMahon is by many accounts a skilled business executive who has nurtured WWE into a major international media and entertainment corporation.

She has also engaged her company in education and literacy programs, among other charitable ventures. She's won a number of awards and honors, and is on the board of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield...More?

source: courant.com