Linda McMahon has a new messenger.
Erin Isaac is leaving her $144,000-a-year post as communications director for McMahon’s Senate campaign.
The 34-year-old flack quietly reached out to members of the Connecticut press corps to say that this will be her last week on the job and that she is returning to her native Florida for unspecified family reasons.
Isaac previously worked as communications director for former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a position she resigned from in November 2009.
The transition in McMahon’s press shop is already underway, according to Isaac.
Kate Duffy, the deputy communications director, will handle media inquiries and requests for comment for the time being.
Campaign finance records show that Duffy makes $102,000 before taxes.
Word of Isaac’s departure from Team Linda just five weeks before the Aug. 14 Republican primary raised eyebrows, including those of her counterpart with the rival campaign of Christopher Shays, Amanda Bergen.
“I wish her well,” Bergen said.