Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination has united an unlikely pair - the National Organization for Women’s (NOW) political action committee and Miss Indiana, Brittany Mason.
NOW has long been critical of the kind of beauty pageants won by Mason. NOW’s foundation even advocated feminists staging mock pageants to “subvert this institution” which, it said, is “a statement of submission, of making the body an object of someone else’s pleasure and preferences.”
Even so, that hasn’t stopped NOW activists and Miss Indiana from going all out to help Clinton win Tuesday’s Indiana presidential primary. Miss Indiana has made several high profile appearances with Clinton in the Hoosier state and most recently accompanied Chelsea Clinton on a visit to a cosmetology school.
“She’s the one I’ve personally admired since I was a little girl,” Mason said of Hillary Clinton.
But Indiana isn’t Clinton’s first encounter with a beauty pageant. In March, she agreed to ask contestants a question via video at the Miss World Puerto Rico pageant.
“I’m going to make it easy for you,” said Clinton - herself no stranger to tough grilling on the campaign trail. “Tell us what you love most about Puerto Rico.”
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