One issue that I clearly saw as important is the potential dangers of steroids -- the real dangers of steroids -- and the long-term health consequences of steroid use and that will be a focus of mine as a United States Senator.
I won't say beyond that what I would do about any of the other issues in the campaign that related to the way my opponent ran her business or treated the people who worked for her, but I think the campaign clearly involved a contrast in our respective records.
Dick Blumenthal's answer to Brian Lockhart's question about whether he wants to pursue greater regulation of the professional wrestling industry now that he's Senator-elect of Connecticut. It's highly disappointing that Blumenthal didn't explicitly mention the dangers of concussions and prescription painkiller abuse too, given that they are arguably the greatest dangers facing professional wrestlers today. The latter sentence seems to indicate that Blumenthal doesn't plan to forget about WWE's dodgy classification of its wrestler as independent contractors and their profit motivated decision to make their toys overseas, instead of back home in Connecticut.
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The problem with regulation is it costs money at a time when Connecticut is running a $3.26 billion budget deficit. There’s no cash for Connecticut in regulating professional wrestling. However, there could be plenty of cash for Connecticut by going after a corporation that have misclassified its employees as independent contractors for over 25 years. More cash for Connecticut by ending tax breaks for big companies like WWE that made it profitable for them to make their merchandise overseas.
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