This is the FCB podcast network. Just listen to yourself, Prisetts. I understand with Cura Davis. South Dakota Governor Christy Noom is in hot water this week after a salacious Daily Mail story dropped claiming she's been having a year's long affair with Trump campaign operative Corey Lewandowski. The article accuses the married mother of four of spending inappropriate amounts of time with Lewandowski alone on private jets, sharing hotel rooms, and engaging in open flirting on the campaign trail. Gnom has so far denied the allegations. I don't pretend to know what's true here. This is one article that is really nothing that accusations. There is no smoking gun at the moment, But in politics, especially, accusations are often as good as proof when it comes to damaging reputations. Clearly someone is out to damage GNOME's reputation, whether or not she's guilty of adultery. She has been an excellent governor though, and I for one, refuse to condemn her based on rumors, and even if she's guilty, it doesn't change the incredible positive leadership she has offered her state. That being said, there is a way, Gnome and anyone else could avoid these accusations and potentially career destroying rumors. These days, we call it the Pence rule. You'll remember it. Former Vice President Mike Pence admitted that, as a rule, he never meets alone with women or socializes with other women without his wife present. Naturally, the progressive toddlers accused him of being unable to control his rape fantasies around women, but mature people understand that his rule is not really about his sexual impulses. It's about safeguarding safeguarding from emotional attachments that can develop when you spend a lot of time with a member of the opposite sex. This is why movie sets are often incubators for affairs. People isolated together and being vulnerable and creating together creates a false sense of intimacy that can develop into inappropriate relationships. Pence can never be accused of infidelity in public, at least because he does not open himself up to such accusations because of his rule. That rule protects not only his family and his character, but his job. He doesn't need to worry about being falsely accused if he heads that type of thing off at the past by removing himself from situations that could be construed as inappropriate or turn inappropriate. Gnome did not have the same rule, and it's led to perhaps infidelity, but definitely a hit on her reputation. She left herself vulnerable, and in politics, that is like blood in the water. The Pence rule gets a lot of ridicule from people who have zero understanding of basic human nature, but it serves multiple purposes and has no downside that I can see. Governor No might do well to consider such a rule for herself. I'm Kia Davis, and I'm just saying. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where real talk lifts. Visit us online at FCB podcasts dot com.
