Mississippi gubernatorial candidate denies female reporter access to campaign trip

A Republican running for governor in Mississippi denied a female reporter's request to accompany him on a campaign trip unless she brought along a male colleague, insisting Wednesday that he did so because he "just wanted to keep things professional."

The reporter, Larrison Campbell, wrote in Mississippi Today on Tuesday that the paper had asked to shadow each gubernatorial candidate seeking the GOP nomination "in an attempt to better inform readers." While two of the candidates agreed, state Rep. Robert Foster declined, explaining on a Mississippi talk radio show Wednesday that having a female reporter with him could create "an awkward situation."

Campbell, who said that she was the first to report on Foster's plans to enter the gubernatorial race in November 2018, told CNN by phone Wednesday that she was in "disbelief" when Foster's campaign manager, Colton Robinson, told her she wouldn't be allowed to cover the campaign by herself.

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If you’re a republican anything, never give them a plausible opportunity to say something happened while you were alone. Even then, they’ll still just say something happened 30 years ago so the media mafia can pounce

find it on #NoMoreDenialOf RightsToMen or on #NoFemalesNoLawsuitsLater ((Both imaginary. Only women get real life hashtag feminist rights. Men are guilty unless proven innocent)) “I remember 21 years ago the candidate glanced up from his pile of government papers and for a half second looked at me and I knew inside my mind it was a sexually significant leer even though he before or later on never spoke to me at any time. I felt vulnerable and unsafe near that man after that.”

This sounds like a modified version of Mike Pence rule of never dining alone with a woman not his wife. He was widely mocked for this, but he has not been subjected to salacious charges that so many other have. This also like the debate about meeting alone in a business setting with a member of the opposite sex where anything can be alleged because there are no third party witnesses.

I believe Vice President Pence practices the same scenario. Whenever there is a female reporter, he ensures there is a male present and does not allow himself to be alone with any woman other than his wife. SMART Move!

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