Rep Scotty Campbell, a GOP Tennessee lawmaker who voted to expel three Democrats for their participation in a gun control protest resigned Thursday following allegations he made unwanted sexual comments toward one, and possibly even two, interns.
Rep. Scotty Campbell , vice chairman of the House Republican Caucus, violated the legislature's workplace discrimination and harassment policy, according to an Ethics subcommittee review from late March. There were few details in the subcommittee's findings, and Campbell has continued working.
The alleged bad behavior cost Tennessee taxpayers, with money spent to protect one victim by relocating her from her downtown home where she and the 39-year-old lawmaker both had apartments. Taxpayers also paid to ship her furniture back home to another part of the state and paid for a hotel so she could finish out the remainder of her internship.
Campbell, part of the supermajority in the state House, was among the Republican lawmakers who voted to expel three Democratic colleagues for leading a gun reform protest. When asked about his vote to expel the "Tennessee Three," he said,"They broke the House rules of decorum."
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