How would you like to be the PA handling this for any of the interested parties?

A Tennessee state representative, Stacey Campfield, has started a blog in Knoxville. It is not sitting well with old school Knoxville politicos. The silliest part is how an intern may have tried to get into the fray by anonymously answering Campfield in their own blog.

Campfield’s posts that have raised the most ire? Tempest in a Tea Cup and Reform. Of note are the numerous comments the ‘Rep’ has had to remove. Guess some people got a lil’ too vile? Who knows.

You need to know the players:

(1) Tennessee State Representative Stacey Campfield
(2) It is alleged that an intern for the Tennessee Speaker of the House, Jimmy Naifeh, launched a blog in response to Campfield. See the intern’s site (since emptied of posts). And the cached version is here: These Are The Days (Full text of the alleged intern’s two posts are below.)

And, read the story from the Tennessean.com.

Thanks to SayUncle for the lead. Visit there for more links on the story.

The intern’s posts (now taken down – shades of Jessica Cutler, without the sex?):

I am a college student…what can I say? We tend to live very interesting lifestyles. Perhaps someone might learn a thing or two from my Blog.

Thursday, March 24, 2005
And the beat goes on…

It looks like the problem from my previous post is being taken care of in a way that would have been avoidable, had the Representative been more careful with his actions.

Free speech is one things, but when you are an elected official, you are supposed to represent your constituents in a mature and fair manner. The comments that the said Representative choose to include in his blog made the entire Legislative body, on both sides of the political spectrum, look immature and childish.

I hope this can be taken as a lesson learned. Government is a very serious business.

posted by alysha0 at 1:13 PM | 2 comments

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Day One

Hello….if you haven’t seen it yet, perhaps you should check out Representative Stacey Campfield’s Blog. It is titled Camp4u. But, don’t be fooled.

He is a freshman legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives. The naivity of the actions he is taking by posting could very well lead to trouble. In state government, it is considered “out of order” for members to wrongfully call other members out on issues with no hard proof, as Rep. Campfield has so chosen to do.

Rep. Campfield is young and single and perhaps a little unexperienced with being cordial. We shall see.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I am working in the legislature. I happen to work for one of the members that Stacey has decided to rail on in his blogs. Funny how small the world is, ay?

Anywho…Nashville is indeed a nice city. A nice place to live. A wonderful place to visit.

I do, however, have real work to do at this moment. I would encourage anyone to visit Stacey’s page…it’s ridiculous.

posted by alysha0 at 3:08 PM | 0 comments

About Me

Name:alysha0
Location:Nashville, Tennessee, United States

In recent posts, I’ve referred to politicians that have launched blogs. And, there are even blogs by political interest groups.

Well, now the political blogs are hitting closer to home. Will we have just one Alabama politico blog soon? Closest thing I can find so far is The Ludwig von Mises Institute blog. Not politicians, but they often like to talk about them.