Hastings to appear on August cover of the Notebook Magazine
An unexpected face is appearing on the August cover of Layfet's most popular fashion magazine and it is of course it is the nation's fastest rising female politician and Union Party Nominee for Executive Minister of Layfet Spencer Hastings. The magazine reports that it will have an exclusive interview with the nominee that includes details on her journey upward the political latter as well as insights into her personal life. It will also contain a photo-shoot of the candidate, with rumors that some of the photos will contain banners from her campaign. This combined with the fact that she is even appearing in the magazine has caused quite the controversy among many prominent politicians and in the public sphere.
Both of the other major party candidates - Fraiser Krane and Anthony Benson has called her appearance a "political stunt" with Krane further commenting that Hastings is "using herself as a sex icon as a means sell her campaign and sway voters." He later posed the question that if she is willing to this, "what other tactics will she stoop down to using?" Other politicians including Governor of Cataland Alan Peters said "This is what happens when we let traditional values leave our homes, and now she is running for office? What will our children think?"
Other politicians have come to Hastings' defense including Epinay City Mayor Sarah Hutch "We should allow anyone to express themselves freely without being hampered down by rape culture. Educate boys not to prey on women and let women be who they want to be." Hastings herself commented on the recent attacks: "We are allowed to use the media in a fair way to give exposure to their campaigns, if Krane or Benson wanted to appear on the cover of a fashion magazine, more power to them. As for this 'sex icon' comment floating around, we all need to learn to be a little more sex positive and not be all hush-hush about it. Plus I should be able to express myself how I want to without any threat or degrading comments from anyone, male or female. This country may be progressive, but their is still of lot of patriarchy going around and that's not okay."
A Nordipolica Post Survey found that the public sides with Hastings' choice with 74 percent of respondents agreeing with Hastings with 20 percent of respondents disagreeing with her, and six percent saying it isn't important. Hastings leads current polls too with 65 percent, Krane at 10 percent, and Benson at 25 percent. The August issue of the Notebook releases on the 15th.
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