The working girls at a Nevada brothel launched a campaign to elect the first female president. Women should help other women, right? J ust days after Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign via online video — Everyday Americans want a champion, and I want to be that champion — some not-so-everyday Americans kicked off their own campaign in similar style. Until recently, many were uninsured. Others say prostitution allowed them to escape the paycheck-to-paycheck life of the working poor.
Some are survivors of violence, incest, addiction. Hookers for Hillary. It happened nine-and-a-half months into the year, but it was still the No 1 Google-searched item of the year. Even more than Caitlyn Jenner. Politics, Hof says, have been just as beneficial for the Moonlite Bunny Ranch. Hollywood, 31, agrees. She has spent the past two years commuting between her Sacramento home and this rural brothel spread across 46 sagebrush-filled acres just outside Carson City.
So it was kind of beneficial on both sides. On a Wednesday before the Nevada caucuses, the Bunny Ranch was quiet in the bright morning light. A stretch limousine gathered dust in the parking lot. Inside, a Three Stooges episode played on the television above banquettes of plush red and black. Taylor Lee, a year-old from Houston, used to be a cake decorator before arriving at the brothel. It was hard work, she said, at low pay. She also waited tables, but her wages could barely keep up with the epilepsy medication that keeps her seizures at bay.
I have seizures in my sleep. I sleep for a day or two afterwards and feel bad. She is slender and tan, with stick-straight blond hair and a cobalt blue dress that struggles to contain her.
She has been at the ranch for six months and registered to vote when she got her medical marijuana card. Politics, she says, is her favorite subject. She is a deep believer in Obamacare and its ability to change lives by allowing people with pre-existing conditions to be covered by health insurance. Lee said she feels a little pushed to support Clinton — but not so much that she will change the way she plans to caucus later this month.
