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Jilly_in_VA

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Wed Feb 7, 2024, 12:49 PM Feb 2024

Former East TN state representative names Rep. Jeremy Faison in lawsuit over records regarding House investigation

A former state representative from East Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the state's Office of Legislative Administration saying he was forced to resign after he was threatened with expulsion by another lawmaker. The lawsuit also accuses Rep. Jeremy Faison (R - Knoxville) of conspiring to keep a separate complaint against him secret.

Scotty Campbell suddenly resigned from the House in April 2023, after an internal investigation by the Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Subcommittee of the House. It found that he violated a discrimination and harassment policy, specifically Rule 82 of the Permanent Rules of Order of the House of Representatives.

"Before his forced resignation, there was a 'complaint' filed against him by a legislative intern who had been flirting with him and spending time with him after work (Mr. Campbell has text messages that prove this). He asserts that the conversations he had with the intern were consensual, after work, and not at work," the lawsuit says.

It also said the complaint against him was a surprise and claimed the director of the Office of Legislative Administration refused to look a text messages between Campbell and the intern while investigating him.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/scotty-campbell-lawsuit-against-jeremy-faison/51-b7372977-fee1-44c9-a6f0-ca8fbae38d71

They're both a pice of work, but Faison is even worse than Campbell. If that's even possible.

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