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Could you folks in Stacey's district do us all a favor and please vote him out of office?

'kay. Thanks.

Stacey Campfield wants children dead.

Hey, You people give Stacey a break. It ain't easy keeping your name at the top of national whack job news cycle as much as he does. This man is a champion! If it weren't for Stacey you would be way more upset at the fact that your public schools system is being sold off and you wells are being poisoned by fracking. This is impressive stuff... being that damned mean takes work.

He won't show up for local meetings and discussions such as those hosted by the League of Women Voters. But he'll talk to Faux News! A national embarrassment.

Perhaps someone should alert George Takei to expand on the last video.
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After watching this nut on msnbc, (link...) seeing his blog and engaging him in the NS comment section, I've come to realize that he will do anything to get attention. It seems that he keeps upping the ante of right wing nutjobbery just to keep the media pointed at himself. I mean, why does he go on msnbc? To speak to his constituents? Don't think there's a lot of his fans there.

He really has no arguments. He just pivots from one straw man to another when someone pushes him to explain his crazy ideas.

It's creepy.

"All press is good press. Just spell my name right."

He understands that homophobia still sells in the south and he's riding that horse until it dies in the desert. He's good at what he does and it's going to take a special candidate and a huge support team to beat him.

He treats politics like show business and he doesn't give up center stage. He can be beat, but we won't beat him with conventional tactics. It'll be a fight.

I'll go over and wish him good luck after I vote in the Democratic primary. I've met some pretty decent people down through the years doing that.

Jay Leno was making fun of Campfield again tonight on his show.

This has The Daily Show written all over it.

Organization launches fund for Campfield 'counseling'

Primaries are tricky things. Pluralities are not that hard to pull off, and I assume Campfield could have the 7th District primary ticket loaded in his favor.

Any additional candidates on the GOP 7th district primary, motivated by principles or opportunism, could further divide the vote.

Plus, what is currently outrageous will be old news by the next primary. And there are a number of national issues that will influence local and especially state elections in 2014.

Gun control, Medicaid expansion, federalism, and the implementation of major parts of the ACA.

Campfield can use all to his advantage.

But yes, Commissioner Briggs is a great candidate and logical choice.

Heart surgeon, Iraq veteran, conservative yet independent,a realist, he brings a unique understanding of medicine and healthcare and will provide helpful leadership for future General Assemblies in dealing with the state's role in implementing the ACA.

Campfield politics all the time. He can be beaten, but an opponent can't assume anything with him.

I know how much y'all dislike Campfield, but why not take a couple of minutes and consider exactly what the bill is saying? Shameless self promotion, I just posted an article on Babble that does just that, from the perspective of a parent who has put 6 kids through high school.

There are some very good reasons why parents should be notified, and I believe we are doing them a disservice by automatically dismissing the bill simply because of where it came from.

If you are interested in my take, and wish to reply, the article is at (link...)

Why should a counselor or teacher have to tell a parent if the behavior isn't endangering the student or others?

This idea that teachers and counselors should be informants about any behavior deemed "troubling" is absurd.

That's not the teachers and counselors' roles.

Their primary roles are to help the students navigate through school, and as an extention, life.

This would open a Pandora's Box.

After we talked last night, I learned what the Idiot's reasons are for ALL of it...told to me by someone who KNOWS. This person told me and others that Stacey confronted them during the start of the 2010 Campaign. This is basically his philosophy for 'winning':

"I do not CARE about anything I say or do...the more 'news' I cause, people remember my name. People REMEMBER MY NAME because of what I say, no matter what no matter who I hurt or insult. I will win this election, because this is my strategy and I have NEVER lost an election here or anywhere."

He is confident because he has GOP/TEA money behind him so he can fill a seat in Nashville...This is how the GOP/TEAs now control red states. Fools are supported by the GOP, no matter how repugnant...DesJarlais, Carr, Kelsey, Hawk, Curry Todd, so they can sit in seats and DO NOTHING for Tennesseans. This is evidenced by their lack of working on JOBS, on decent health care, on putting more money in public schools, K-12, instead of handing out our tax dollars to profit 'education experts' by ripping off poor families...vouchers, charter/private schools and the online craziness.
I note the Govenor said yesterday that he does not 'publicly' support Stacey and as much as admitted that this State's reputation has been negatively impacted by all the hate.
The voters the Idiot's District are SO impressed that he makes national news and is just so cute with his ignorance, that he WILL continue to win.
I say whoever Briggs is, he probably would win if he could condemn every single ignorant, hate-filled Bill, every lie (straight people don't get AIDS). And if Briggs IS a physician, he would have to tell the medical and scientific truth against Campfield's lack of any facts about human sexuality, or what Campfield says about violating the trust a child's might place in his/her school counselor. In other words, Briggs would have to tell the voters in that District that he DOES represent decent moral values, and he would work for THEM, not build a reputation for himself as a copycat, empty suit Stacy.
In other words, we Democrats and Independents would have to ask Jesus to run in order to 'get rid of Stacey'. Or maybe we can run a donkey for this job, one who would make more noise and is cuter.

In 1989 the Report of the Task Force on Youth Suicide commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services stated that LGB youth were two to three times more likely to attempt suicide than straight kids and may equal up to 30% of youth suicides.

Those findings comprised only one chapter in the report but the Bush the Elder Administration attempted to suppressed the entire report because of its 'incompatibility with the Republican Party's Christian agenda'.

Granted, 1989 was a long time ago - but not that long ago it seems in the South. I mentioned that report once to a conservative (being as kind as I can here) colleague at work who said the sad part about it was the fact that they waited until they were teenagers before they killed themselves.

Oddly enough 1989 was the year I came out to my mother and I will never forget her first words, "Your [late] daddy hated those people."

How well I knew that.

Briggs:

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Counselors informing parents when their child's behavior might be deemed as troubling for the parents?

What if the parents are against inter-racial dating, etc.

Where would it end?

Counselor: "Mr. Jones, do you know that Margaret wishes to pursue a career in music, or art, and I wanted you to know before things went too far. We're having a talent show on Tuesday, and I was afraid...."

Sheesh, where do they get this stuff?

Stacy is once again posting on the KNS comments here.

Ramsey opposes Campfield's Snitcher bill:

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Unlike some, he doesn't feel compelled to defend the indefensible – at least not this time.