State Rep. Stacey Campfield wasn’t singing Rocky Top after being escorted from a University of Tennessee football game over a dispute with police involving a Halloween mask.
The Knoxville Republican was wearing a “Luchador’s full head mask” during the Oct. 31 game against South Carolina despite publicity that Halloween masks were not allowed inside Neyland Stadium. A mother and her two daughters became “upset because a man was sitting in their section (Section B) with a mask on.”
Campfield removed the mask when confronted by police. But instead of going back to his seat, he went a different direction. When an officer asked him why, Campfield reportedly became defensive and began acting strangely. When Campfield gave the officer his ticket, it was for Section LL, not Section B. McReynolds and another officer eventually escorted him from the stadium.
Somehow I think Smokey XI would disapprove.
This is not first time Campfield has made headlines for his behavior outside the Legislature. A Democrat who narrowly lost an election last year sued Campfield for falsely writing on his blog a few weeks before the vote that the man had been arrested several times on drug charges.
Then, a house four college students were renting from Campfield drew attention after it was condemned for having 47 code violations. He blamed the media for reports of his battles with tenants.
Campfield’s is not known for being a moderate. He has proposed radical legislation includin a bill that would require a death certificate be issued for each abortion performed in Tennessee.
