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Bill USA

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Tue May 6, 2014, 03:34 PM May 2014

How to Turn Insanity into a Career Choice by Stacey Campfield: Conservative visitor from beyond the

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017190391#post37

Stacey Campfield's "Train Ride" to Ignominy


Ever since he’s been in the Tennessee General Assembly, state Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has incurred the acrimony and dislike of Democrats — not merely for his extremist legislative proposals, few of which make it very far off the launch pad, but because of his willingness to draw attention to himself through outrageous and insensitive statements.

On Monday, the “Don’t Say Gay” senator, infamous as well for his abortive proposal last year to deny families of failing school-children access to state social assistance, finally jumped his shark. Or, more accurately, boarded his train to possible political oblivion.

Campfield’s antics had already made him the target of a thinly disguised purge attempt by the Republican establishment in the guise of Dr. Richard Briggs, a distinguished Knoxville physician who has challenged the madcap senator in the August Republican primary,.
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How to Turn Insanity into a Career Choice by Stacey Campfield: Conservative visitor from beyond the (Original Post) Bill USA May 2014 OP
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