McMahon’s wunderkind

Summer interns man a phone bank at Linda McMahon's Norwalk field office on June 27, 2012.

There is proof indeed that summer interns don’t just answer telephones.

Her name is Linda McMahon.

Once again the favorite to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, as she did two years ago, McMahon is enlisting summer interns to help with the yeoman’s task of phone banking.

Did we mention that some of McMahon’s interns are paid?

Yep, that’s right, $10 an hour, per McMahon’s campaign, which confirmed that over 100 high school and college-age students are on its team.

CLARIFICATION: McMahon spokeswoman Kate Duffy says that there was a miscommunication by the campaign and that those interns who do the phone banking are unpaid but receive college credit. Others, she said, do get paid.

Beats flippin’ burgers.

Or, as one person who knows a thing or two about campaigns put it, “McMahon pays better than ACORN.”

The interns are scattered among McMahon’s six campaign field offices, including her North Haven headquarters.

In addition to interns, McMahon is using unpaid volunteers to help her connect with voters before the Aug. 14 primary.

McMahon’s campaign is trying to reach out to every registered Republican, in addition to unaffiliated voters, who can still enroll with the GOP in time for the primary.

That’s 1,228,740 telephone calls, which is broken down into 411,111 Republicans and 817,629 unaffiliated voters.

But who’s counting?

Neil Vigdor