Larrison Campbell, a female journalist, said on Tuesday that Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster (R) wouldn’t let her shadow him because of her gender.
In a report for Mississippi Today, Campbell described how Foster’s campaign manager required her to bring a male colleague if she wanted to accompany Foster during an upcoming campaign trip.
Why? Because the campaign was worried that it’d look like Foster was having an affair with her.
Campbell wrote in her report that when she pointed out that assumption was based purely on her gender, the campaign manager told her the campaign “can’t risk it” because “perception is everything.”
“We are so close to the primary. If (trackers) were to get a picture and they put a mailer out, we wouldn’t have time to dispute it,” the manager told her. “And that’s why we have to be careful.”
Foster, who currently serves as a state senator, is a hardline Tea Party conservative who, as Campbell pointed out in her report, also has an inflammatory Twitter presence.
Anyone who votes Dem. in 18 is either ignorant or evil. There is no excuse for supporting killing babies or open borders. If that offends U, I’ll pray for U but I won’t apologize. Switch parties & vote Rep. or continue to support the destruction or our nation & vote Socialist-Dem
— Robert Foster (@RobertFoster4MS) November 6, 2018
Mississippi’s gubernatorial election will be held this year on November 5.
