The assignment is a thankless one: stick to Linda McMahon like white on rice.
Must be willing to cram into tight spaces.
Minimum requirements of the job: an iPhone, preferably the 4s, and a car.
What paparazzi are to Page Six, trackers are to political campaigns.
Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon are part of the phenomenon.
Both of their campaigns use trackers to keep tabs on the opposition at the minimum.
The hope is that the other guy, or in McMahon’s case, woman, will make a gaffe — bungle the nuances of Paul Ryan’s budget plan or defense cuts.
As a result, the candidates’ schedules are often on a need to know basis only, or, as we in the media know it, FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY.
On day one of the general election campaign, Murphy sic’ed his tracker on McMahon at a pair of campaign stops in Danbury.
She revealed that she receives no pay and is a volunteer.
At least Linda knows her by first name.
McMahon’s campaign readily acknowledged that it uses trackers: cloak without the dagger.
In 2010, Richard Blumenthal went so far as to introduce McMahon’s tracker to me at the annual Labor Day Tractor Parade in Bridgewater.