GOP candidate: Woman reporter needs chaperone to cover him
JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — and now he's trying to raise campaign money based on that because he says the"liberal media" are attacking him.
Larrison Campbell with the online publication Mississippi Today wrote that she requested to"shadow" Foster to report about his campaign before the Aug. 6 primary, and his campaign director told her Foster wouldn't ride in a vehicle alone with her because people could insinuate Foster and Campbell are having an affair.
Foster said he has hired women to work for the agricultural tourism business that he and his wife run in northern Mississippi, and that he would hire women staffers if he is elected governor. He said, however:"It's unprofessional to be alone with a woman who's not my wife.""My editor and I agreed the request was sexist and an unnecessary use of resources," Campbell wrote.
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