Tennessee State Rep. Scotty Campbell resigned on Thursday after it was revealed that the state’s House Ethics Committee had secretly convicted him of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern.
In a later encounter, the woman alleged that Campbell had asked her how many men and women she had had sexual relations with, offered her weed in exchange for a viewing of her piercings and tattoos, and went so far as to grab her neck after repeatedly asking her “for several hugs.”
“I had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off-property,” Cambell claimed when confronted by NewsChannel 5 on Thursday. “I think conversations are consensual once that is verbally agreed to. If I choose to talk to any intern in the future, it will be recorded.” The woman accused him white in her email that she had been informed that Cambell “admitted fully to his guilt.
The trio of lawmakers had approached the podium to deliver remarks without being recognized by the chair, a violation of the House rules typically punished by an official reprimand, in response to a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school.
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