State Senator Taunts Laid-Off Reporter: 'So, Do YOU Have Any Comments Now?'
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
(113,061 posts)Not a damn one of them has any human empathy or class.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)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
(11,094 posts)is like a good-conduct badge.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Who's suggesting an act?
alfredo
(60,071 posts)They're scared of losing privilege.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)But I'll think about it.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)They would never do something like this. This man is a coward.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)The poor, racial minorities, religious minorities, immigrants, and gays. Bullies don't pick on people their own size.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)What a scumbag.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Mean, harassing, tacky and classless
They thrive being like that.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who does that?! certainly not an elected official!
tanyev
(42,556 posts)Figures.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)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
(78,249 posts)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
(32,023 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)freebrew
(1,917 posts)TRoN33
(769 posts)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
(45,251 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)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
(60,071 posts)bullies and cowards.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)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
(2,004 posts)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
(15,882 posts)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
(11,589 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)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
(1,397 posts)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
(14,177 posts)A lot of GOPers don't like GW cuz he is an old softy and too librul.
niyad
(113,302 posts)Beowulf42
(204 posts)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