(TN) Republican sponsored bill opposes age limit for breast-feeding

[guruoo]

(Original headline: Senate committee takes up breastfeeding in public)


Bill opposes age limit for breast-feeding

* By Tom Humphrey
* Knoxville News Sentinel
* Posted March 16, 2011 at 11:50 p.m.

NASHVILLE — Despite some senators fretting about “weird things” and “strange people,” legislation to remove the current age limit for breast-feeding in public was approved by committees of the state House and Senate on Wednesday.

“Is 35 a child?” asked Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson. “I know that sounds crazy, but I’m thinking of a situation in a bar where maybe things got a little crazy. … I know I’m going way out on a fringe thinking a 14-year-old, but weird things happen in our society.”

Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, declaring that “at some point there should be some sort of line,” proposed an amendment to allow public breast-feeding up to age 3.

“There are a lot of strange people in this world,” Campfield said.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/mar/16/bill-opposes-age-limit-breast-feeding/

[Arugula Latte]

1. Good thing Tennessee has solved all its problems with unemployment, education and healthcare

and can therefore tackle this very pressing issue. :eyes:

[guruoo]

6. Google: stacey campfield mexican wrestling mask ...

“There are a lot of strange people in this world,” Campfield said.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=725&q=stacey+campfield+mexican+wrestling+mask&aq=0&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=stacey+campfield+mexican+wresling+mask&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=3a4b3d2aeb6ee5cb

[Arugula Latte]

8. Hoo boy. This guy is a piece of work.

He probably has issues stemming from being a boy named "Stacey."

[Ozymanithrax]

2. These people are just sick...

Breastfeeding in bars is called foreplay.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Perhaps that is their jobs plan

Hiring bar breast feeders...........

[cspanlovr]

3. There certainly are strange people in the world, and he's one of them.

I am so sick and tired of these peoples fetishes and peeves and neuroses being used to justify new laws.

[guruoo]

10. In-deed he is...

State Rep. Campfield escorted from UT game on Halloween

....

The incident began inside Neyland Stadium when a mother and her two daughters became “upset because a man was sitting in their section (Section B) with a mask on,” according to McReynolds’ report. “The girls were upset because they had been told they not could wear masks into the stadium and the mask was such that it was bothering them.”

According to a report by UT Police Lt. Dana McReynolds, the Knoxville Republican was wearing a “Luchador’s (Mexican wrestler’s) full head mask” during the game against South Carolina despite publicity before and during the game that Halloween masks were not allowed inside Neyland Stadium.
The officer noted that Campfield then re-entered the stadium area but went a different direction than his original seat.

“Curious about this odd behavior and concerned that he had misunderstood our interaction, I caught up with him in front of the concession stand in Section D,” McReynolds wrote. “I … began to tell him that I was not asking him to leave the section, just to take off his mask. Again … he interrupted and said, ‘I was just taking a walk. Is it illegal to walk around?’ I told him ‘no,’ and was surprised by his sudden confrontational attitude. … He again asked if walking around was illegal. I told him ‘no’ and again began to explain that he did not have to leave his seat, just take off the mask. He continued to ask if walking around was illegal. … Thinking that something was not right (he kept saying the same phrase over and over, would not make eye contact and kept shifting on his feet, left to right) I asked to see his ticket.”

“After five or six attempts at explaining this to him, I told the man I was not going to play word … games with him,” the officer wrote. “He had violated the mask policy, was in the wrong section and was being argumentative and uncooperative.” According to the narrative, McReynolds asked for the man’s identification, wrote his Tennessee driver’s license number on his ticket and, along with another officer, escorted him from the stadium.







What the Heck is Wrong With Stacey Campfield?
A conversation with Knoxville’s weirdest politician

* By Jesse Fox Mayshark
* Posted September 29, 2010 at 2:02 p.m.



Campfield, with ginger hair and an Eddie Haskell grin that makes him look younger than his 42 years, likes to present himself as just another conservative Republican in a region rich with them, a common-sensical guy who favors low taxes, less gubmint, and better schools. And for about five minutes, it’s easy to believe him—which may be one reason he’s successful at shoe-leather, door-knock campaigning. But the eye rolls and head shakes and sighs come from the things Campfield has actually done since taking office as a state representative in 2005. He has tried to join the legislative Black Caucus. He has pushed for bills to issue death certificates for aborted fetuses, and to force women to look at fetal ultrasound images before having an abortion. He has lobbied for the right of both faculty and students to bring guns onto college campuses. He has proposed a range of legislation on things like child support, orders of protection, and sexual-abuse allegations, that, as a Nashville Scene blogger put it a few weeks ago, seem to derive from a sense “that women are crazy lying bitches men need protecting from.” He is bothered by the existence of gay-straight student alliances, and he is passionate about a bill that would forbid any discussion of homosexuality in elementary or middle schools. He wants to eliminate the state’s pre-kindergarten education programs.

And, yes, there was that whole thing with the wrestling mask at the UT football game.

In short, he has often seemed more like a performer than a legislator, the political equivalent of a pro wrestler. It’s an impression that was only enhanced earlier this year when he willingly appeared on a segment of the Penn and Teller cable show Bullshit!, which mocked his don’t-say-gay education bill and called Campfield “a professional bully” and “an asshole.” Campfield, apparently convinced he’d gotten the better of the encounter, posted a clip from the episode on his blog.

http://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/sep/29/what-heck-wrong-stacey-campfield/

[buddysmellgood]

4. They've never had the cheese.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-09/breast-milk-cheese/

[aquart]

7. What happened to these obsessed fools as children?

What terrible trauma made them this way?

[Arugula Latte]

9. Being a boy named "Stacey" in this case.

Probably.

[CoffeeCat]

12. I've wondered the same thing...

...because I had a horrible childhood from hell and I'm not half as messed up as these loons.

Seriously. It's frightening.

[white_wolf]

11. I have an announcement.

Because of the high level of fucked upness in this state, I have decided that I shall run for office. Why not? I can't be any worse than these crazy people.

[wickerwoman]

13. Thank God we have Republicans to stop government intrusion into our private lives!

[Jmaxfie1]

15. +1 n/t

[RandySF]

14. Yes, there are indeed strange people.

Some of them serve in the TN State Legislature.

[Jmaxfie1]

16. How many people would be suprised if he gets caught trying to breast-feed with some hooker? Anyone?

[johnroshan]

17. Hahahaha... what a bunch of fake prudes! /nt

[cynatnite]

18. Well, yes, because public breastfeeding is such a major problem in our state...

:sarcasm:

[JCMach1]

19. Just because something is 'weird' it should be illegal???

These people need to get a life!