A state lawmaker in Tennessee has resigned suddenly for an ethics violation
Republican Rep. Scotty Campbell, sits in session in the House Chambers at the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, March 20, 2023. Campbell, a Republican lawmaker in Tennessee resigned Thursday, April 20, 2023 due to an ethics violation involving the Legislature’s workplace discrimination and harassment policy.NASHVILLE, Tenn.
WTVF-TV was first to report on the finding by the Ethics Subcommittee, which issued its decision in a document addressed to Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton. Jones, Pearson and Johnson were targeted for expulsion for the March 30 protest at the front of the House floor in which hundreds of demonstrators packed the Capitol to call for passage of gun-control measures.“Yet if you talk without permission, you get expulsion resolutions,” she added.
In 2019, lawmakers were under pressure to expel former Republican Rep. David Byrd after he faced accusations of sexual misconduct dating to when he was a high school basketball coach three decades ago.“You have to balance the will of the voters and overturning the will of the voters,” Sexton told WPLN in 2019, noting the allegations dated from 30 years earlier.Former Democratic Rep.
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