Friday, July 24, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods News Flash: A Public Official Says Something Sorta Related to the Senate Sex Scandal
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:37 AM
"Rep. Stacey Campfield's comment belongs to another place and time, as in when dinosaurs roamed the earth. These are serious matters for Senator Stanley's family. Nothing funny has happened here. Rep. Campfield's comment embarrasses only himself. The people of Knox County deserve better, and the Republican Party deserves better."Campfield tells Tom Humphrey he posted the comment by a fellow legislator, who he declined to identify, as a "very curious remark." "You can take it as a good comment or a bad comment. I'm not saying whether it was appropriate or inappropriate. People can take it however they will," says Campfield. "I am not condoning what he (Stanley) did in any way, shape or form." Update: Action Andy Sher forces someone else to say something about Stanley. Republican Sen. Bo Hixson: "I think it's a tragic situation." Should Stanley resign? "I don't know that that's something I'm ready to say anything about right now because I don't know all the details of what transpired."
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Here's another comment that Campfield made on the subject of Paul Stanley's affair:
“OK, Just for the sake of argument lets say there are photos of a Stanley affair and it was all true. (I have no knowledge of that one way or the other) Is that illegal? No. While unseemly, he has not broken any legal law. To his credit he went above what many would do and called the cops when being shaken down. I am sure he knew when he did, that it would come out and it would not be pretty. He stood up to the blackmailer and did the right thing anyway. A lesser person would have caved, given the money and hoped it never came out.” - Rep. Stacey Campfield
Unbelievable. He breaks his marriage vows and reveals himself as a breathtaking moral hypocrite, and Rep. Campfield is complimenting him on his behavior because he wouldn't allow himself to be blackmailed?
I expect that if Stanley robbed a bank, hid the cash for months and then surrendered when police surrounded his house, Campfield would praise him for not resisting arrest.
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