State Senator Taunts Laid-Off Reporter: 'So, Do YOU Have Any Comments Now?'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

State Senator Taunts Laid-Off Reporter: 'So, Do YOU Have Any Comments Now?'
Posted: 10/16/2014 6:08 pm EDT Updated: 11 minutes ago

Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) mocked a local journalist after that reporter was laid off from her job this week.

Cari Gervin and her colleagues at Knoxville's alt-weekly paper Metro Pulse were let go this week as part of a round of layoffs by the paper's owner, the Knoxville News Sentinel. After tweeting about the layoffs, Gervin posted a screenshot of a Facebook message she received from Campfield:

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Cari Wade Gervin @carigervin
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This just happened. You have to be fucking kidding me.


3:27 PM - 16 Oct 2014

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Gervin told The Huffington Post that Campfield has sent her "a lot of really mean, harassing text messages" before. But she said his message about her layoff was "tacky and classless."

"All of us lost our jobs, and some of them -- I've been there for four years, but one of my colleagues has been there for 19 years," Gervin said.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/16/stacey-campfield-cari-gervin_n_5999798.html

[blm]

1. It's the Republican Way.

Not a damn one of them has any human empathy or class.

[Orsino]

9. Kicking down and kissing up, as another poster notes. n/t

[Hestia]

33. WTF do they tell people in these secret meetings? Who sucks who? There can't be that many

people who were raised this badly, can there? I mean c'mon, who sits on the committee that comes up with the most vile shit imaginable, other than the Kock bro's of course.

[democrank]

2. Republicans seem to think their heartless lack of empathy

is like a good-conduct badge.

[alfredo]

12. Compassion is a sign of weakness.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. It certainly is when we show it toward them!

[alfredo]

16. Acting like a big tough man is just an act.

[FiveGoodMen]

17. That's right. We should fight the right like our lives depend on it.

Who's suggesting an act?

[alfredo]

28. They just seem so full of fear. The whole gun thing is to intimidate us.

They're scared of losing privilege.

[FiveGoodMen]

31. Well, you have more sympathy for them than I can muster

But I'll think about it.

[alfredo]

32. I try

[Drahthaardogs]

37. Trust me. I was raised by coal miners and cowboys. Real big tough men.

They would never do something like this. This man is a coward.

[alfredo]

38. Look at the groups that are targeted by his party: women, children,

The poor, racial minorities, religious minorities, immigrants, and gays. Bullies don't pick on people their own size.

[Drahthaardogs]

39. Yes. Cowards prey on those weaker than them.

What a scumbag.

[alfredo]

40. That point needs to be shouted.

[SoapBox]

3. PukeBaggers are...

Mean, harassing, tacky and classless

They thrive being like that.

[noiretextatique]

4. petty, mean-spirited asshole

who does that?! certainly not an elected official!

[tanyev]

5. Oh, this is the "Don't Say Gay" jackass.

Figures.

[bullwinkle428]

26. I KNEW I had heard that fucker's name before.

[Ampersand Unicode]

6. The (R) after the name stands for redundant.

Pretty sure that buffoons like this are always going to be GOP.

Or maybe it stands for registered trademark, as in Goobers have not only cornered the market on stupidity and callousness, but copyrighted it too?

[KamaAina]

7. Another one for the Stacey Campfield highlight reel.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014566501

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024912236

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101795502

You don't suppose he's at all insecure about being named 'Stacey' do you?

[alp227]

22. Not to mention, he lost his primary.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/party-makes-a-point-its-briggs-over-campfield_46923639

[KamaAina]

29. So what comments does HE have now?

[blackspade]

8. Stacey Campfield: Dickbag.

[freebrew]

34. SCROTUM? nt

[TRoN33]

10. Wait, I thought Republicans are all about create more jobs?

I guess that is why Boehner left his list of five-point plan the blanks. I feel bad for this reporter and her friends for losing their jobs.

A republican who gloat and chortle over this is so full of it. Hope the karma would bite him back real hard.

[merrily]

20. No, they're all about "Why didn't Obama create more jobs?"

[billhicks76]

11. Today's Republicans Are Petty Assholes

Their previous leaders would be embarrassed. I've never read such scumbag comments like i do on FOX when someone links an article. Makes you wonder if they are even real online profiles. Purge those sick headed idiots from normal society.

[alfredo]

13. You notice they only aim their ire at women, minorities, and children. They are

bullies and cowards.

[Divernan]

15. Happily this GOP asshole lost his primary last spring so is also out of a job!

"We are all just devastated at the loss of our paper and what that means for the community with one less reporting outlet in town. And for some politician to be a jerk about it is just, it's typical Stacey, but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous," Gervin said.

Gervin said she has never contacted Campfield over Facebook, noting that he blocked her from seeing his page after she reported on a blog post in which he compared Obamacare sign-ups to Nazi death trains.

Campfield, who declined to comment to HuffPost about Gervin, lost his re-election bid when he was defeated by cardiac surgeon Richard Briggs in the GOP primary race in August. Gervin, who is now looking for another journalism job, said she hasn't reported on Campfield since he was defeated.

[greatlaurel]

18. This is the act of a sociopath. What a monster.

My best wishes to Ms. Gervin and her coworkers. They should make a project of taking this creep down while they are unemployed. Someone that vile has surely left a lot of victims in his wake.

[jtuck004]

19. That's a great question. As a matter of fact, I think he must bed asking that of ANYONE who

has become unemployed in that state. Tens of thousands?

I think they ALL should be encouraged to POST their comments to him, especially those that note his concern and would like to know what he is doing about jobs.

I bet they would have a lot of comments for him.

[Raine1967]

21. Proof the GOP doesn't care about a free press. nt

[wheniwasincongress]

23. Clearly he's in love with her

Gervin told The Huffington Post that Campfield has sent her "a lot of really mean, harassing text messages" before

I hope she releases his other love notes he sent to her.

[OldRedneck]

24. Stacey Campfield: Lame duck, lost GOP primary 66-28

Google Stacey Campfield and read the results. He's an ignorant, hate-filled, biblethumping rightwing goober from a rural area north of Knoxville, TN.

Campfield is a lame duck -- he lost the August GOP primary 66% to 28%:

http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/08/08/campfield-among-state-legislature-incumbents-defeated/13808281/

[Kalidurga]

27. I hope it wasn't because he isn't mean enough...

A lot of GOPers don't like GW cuz he is an old softy and too librul.

[niyad]

25. "tacky and classless" seems to be the default setting for pukes.

[Beowulf42]

30. Sign of the Times

Unfortunately, a certain type of person, many of them males, think that having compassion and caring about others marks them as sissies. They reject liberal or progressive policies because of a fear that they will be looked upon as weak, and so they attempt to create a persona of the macho man type. Fortunately our Constitution was written by enlightened individuals, participating members of the Age of Reason, and thus wrote the phrase, the common good into our primary document. Soplice

[world wide wally]

35. Just one lore example of GOP arrogance.

[yellowcanine]

36. Classy.