32 Facts About Stacey Campfield

Stacey Campfield was born on June 8,1968 and is an American politician.

Stacey Campfield served as the Republican member of the Tennessee Senate from the 7th district, including Knoxville, Farragut, University of Tennessee, Powell and other parts of Knox County.

Originally from Vestal, New York, and a 1986 graduate of Vestal High School where he was named "Sportsman of the year" for Wrestling and later was inducted into their high school hall of fame, Campfield moved to Knoxville at age 25.

Stacey Campfield received an associate degree in Marketing from Broome Community College in 1989.

Stacey Campfield has been involved with the Young Republicans, the College Republicans, and the American Red Cross.

Stacey Campfield was first elected in 2004 to the Tennessee House of Representatives.

In 2005, Stacey Campfield said that he was interested in joining the legislative Black Caucus.

Stacey Campfield described the group's bylaws as racist because he said they restrict membership based on race, which described as being more restrictive than the Ku Klux Klan's bylaws that only restrict based on the ideology of white supremacy.

Stacey Campfield opposed the bill, saying that one way a felon can show rehabilitation is by being timely on any child support payments.

Stacey Campfield sponsored a bill to issue death certificates for aborted fetuses in 2007.

Stacey Campfield said he wanted people to be able to find out how many abortions were being performed in Tennessee and to note the loss of human lives.

In 2008, Stacey Campfield sponsored a bill requiring public colleges in Tennessee to allow their full-time employees with state-issued handgun-carry permits to carry their handguns on campus.

Also in 2008, Stacey Campfield proposed a bill to ban teachers from teaching as part of the lesson plan about homosexuality in Tennessee's public elementary and middle schools, saying that the topic should only be discussed by each student's family.

In 2008, Stacey Campfield proposed a bill to prohibit Tennessee public colleges from admitting illegal immigrants.

Stacey Campfield said that if students cannot enroll in classes with unpaid parking tickets, then students should not be able to enroll in classes if they are in violation of federal immigration laws either.

In 2009, Stacey Campfield introduced a bill to limit lottery winnings to $600 for people on public assistance.

Stacey Campfield said that people on public assistance should not be buying lottery tickets and instead should be using that money to buy food for their children.

Stacey Campfield introduced a bill to change to a closed primary.

Stacey Campfield said that voters often vote in the other party's primary in order to vote for a weaker candidate or one that is closer to the voter's own party's politician positions, both of which Stacey Campfield opposed.

Stacey Campfield's sponsorship was seen as largely 'carrying water' for Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey in whose district one of the groups resides and whose previous state representative Nathan Vaughn initiated the legislation in 2008.

In January 2013, Stacey Campfield introduced a modified version of his "Classroom protection act" bill.

Stacey Campfield has appeared or been quoted on multiple national, international news broadcasts and media outlets for his legislation as well as his outspoken, and often creative conservative views.

In 2002, at one of Republican Congressman Jimmy Duncan's annual barbecues, Stacey Campfield followed candidate for Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen with a sign saying "Tax 'n' Spend Governor".

Stacey Campfield was forcibly removed by security after being attacked by a Bredesen supporter but was later allowed to come back into the event.

On October 31,2009, Stacey Campfield attended the Halloween Volunteers football game with the University of South Carolina at the University of Tennessee Neyland Stadium where he was briefly questioned, searched, and detained allegedly after the mother of two young girls complained that the presence of a masked Stacey Campfield had allegedly frightened two young girls.

Stacey Campfield later offered college scholarships to the two girls if they were ever identified.

On January 29,2012, the owner of the cafe Bistro at the Bijou, Martha Boggs in Knoxville asked Stacey Campfield to leave the restaurant as a stand for gay rights.

Since March 2005, Stacey Campfield has maintained a public blog that includes a warning that any quotation from it for print will be charged at "$1,000 USD per word".

In 2013 Stacey Campfield appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan and debated gun rights and a possible gun ban in the USA.

Stacey Campfield called gun control a failure and at one point asked when Morgan planned to fulfill his promise to leave the USA if gun control failed.

In 2012 Stacey Campfield authored legislation requiring suspicion based drug testing for those receiving cash government benefits.

Stacey Campfield responded to the criticism saying it missed his point about "government mandates and bureaucrats deciding who should be given life saving medications and who should be denied" and government funding for abortion.