The road to Connecticut’s Senate seat will not be an easy path to take for Senatoriable Linda McMahon. Others say that the profile of the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment is an impressive one. Her experience as the top executive of multi-million entertainment company is her best weapon against her detractors. McMahon believes that she deserves to be elected in the public office because of her qualifications. The story on how she was able to transform a small company to a publicly traded company is one of the campaign strategies of the McMahon camp.

In the recent interview of Andrew Rice of BusinessWeek, McMahon was not spared on the issue of steroids use of professional wrestlers particularly in WWE. Several years ago, her company became a subject of a federal investigation because of illegal prescription of anabolic steroids of their doctor. Vince McMahon was also implicated in a steroid case but they were acquitted of the charges. The rampant steroid use in the sport were blamed to the deaths of many professional wrestlers including Chris Benoits who killed his family and committed suicide afterwards. It was due to roid rage, a side effect of abusing steroids according to health experts.

Linda McMahon was asked about the effects of steroids on athletes. Rice cited that researches linked steroid use by athletes to liver, cardiac, musculoskeletal, and reproductive system damage, as well as psychiatric effects. Linda’s response was similar to her husbands view on the issue. Vince believes that there is no clear evidence that performance enhancing drugs or anabolic steroids were really dangerous.

“There’s some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it’s really hard to know because you didn’t know the condition of the performer’s heart, or whatever, prior to,” McMahon tells Andrew Rice of BusinessWeek. “So I still don’t think we know the long-term effects of steroids. They are continuing to study it more and more, but I don’t believe there are a lot of studies out there today that are conclusive.”

The Day also contacted Linda McMahon’s communications director, Ed Patru, to clarify the candidate’s position on the risks of steroids. Patru said that the Senatoriable is against illegal drug use. “She believes steroid use can have long-term negative physical and psychiatric impact on the body, and those negative impacts obviously are exacerbated with abuse,” said Patru.

He added that McMahon supports the continuing research on anabolic steroids which could help people understand further the full scope of the impact of long term use of steroids on the body. “As for the WWE, it has a very clearly defined policy on all illegal drugs, which I’m sure you’ve read,” Patru added.

The stand of Linda McMahon on steroid use will surely raise some concern especially on his critics. In the previous months, a memo was published on McMahon’s alleged intervention on a steroid investigation. Her credibility is being questioned whether she can really be a good leader once elected in the Senate.

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