Bill Waller Jr. is the second Republican in the running to make the very weird, very sexist campaign promise of not being alone with women, purportedly out of “respect” for his wife
Photo: Rogelio V Solis/AP/Shutterstock The Mississippi gubernatorial race now has two candidates who say they won’t be alone with women out of respect for their wives — otherwise known as the Billy Graham rule. Bill Waller Jr. is the second Republican in the running to make the very weird, very sexist campaign promise, purportedly out of “respect” for his wife. Okay.
Last week, another Republican candidate in the race, Robert Foster, made headlines for refusing a 15-hour ride-along with Mississippi Today journalist Larrison Campbell unless she brought a male colleague as a chaperone. The stipulation first came from Foster’s campaign director, who said the optics of Foster being alone with a woman were simply too risky as they could be used to insinuate that the two were having an affair.
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