Greens vs sex workers

The Post reports:

A sex worker rights group claims the Green Party has barred their chair from becoming a potential MP, saying she was told it would “distract” from the Green Party’s messaging goals.

Fired Up Stilettos (FUS) issued a statement claiming the Greens interrogated their chair, Bianca Beebe, regarding her past as a sex worker, raising concerns other parties would find archives of now-deleted nude photos and her history providing sexual services illegally on a work visa.

Being a sex worker has not been a barrier to being a successful MP. Georgina Beyer was a sex worker in her youth and she got elected Mayor of Carterton and then MP for Wairarapa multiple times.

The issue of potentially breaching a work visa is a legitimate concern.

Beebe responded saying “all of my advertising photos were great, so it would be pretty funny to have people attempt to shame me by sharing photos of me looking amazing. What’s next, they’re going to leak my school transcripts showing a high GPA?”

Heh, that is a great response.

You can read the full statement from FUS here.

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