Rep. Kelsey Files Ethics Complaint Against Speaker

By Kleinheider Posted on January 21, 2009 at 3:35 pm

The only legislator to travel to Carter County and actively campaign for Williams’ primary opponent continues the campaign:

MEMPHIS - Representative Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) filed an Ethics Complaint today against Speaker of the House Kent Williams for Williams’s acts of sexual harassment and for making a false statement to the public regarding the allegations. Rep. Kelsey filed the Complaint directly with Speaker Williams this afternoon via e-mail.

It was revealed yesterday that on March 27, 2007, Williams solicited a sexual act from Rep. Susan Lynn in the legislative parking garage, telling her, “I will give a week’s pay just to see you naked.”

A memo written by House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower chronicles that Williams admitted the charge of sexual harassment, apologized to Rep. Lynn, and was reprimanded by Leader Mumpower.

Yesterday, Speaker Williams issued a public statement, saying, “I have never sexually harassed anyone nor have I been reprimanded for any such behavior.”

“Speaker Williams’s actions of sexual harassment were bad enough to begin with. Denying that the events ever occurred, in effect calling Rep. Lynn a liar, is like spitting in the face of his victim,” said Rep. Kelsey from his law office in Memphis.

Rep. Kelsey continued, “Speaker Williams issued a false statement with the intent to deceive the public. This type of dishonesty to the people of Tennessee is totally unacceptable from the leader of the House of Representatives.”

Rep. Kelsey has been a leader on issues of ethics throughout his four-year tenure in the House of Representatives. He was the first member of the General Assembly to call for public hearings on whether indicted legislators should keep their seats in the wake of the Tennessee Waltz scandal, and he introduced thirty-three amendments to strengthen the ethics bill in the special session on ethics in 2006. He has been a vocal proponent of closing the loophole in the lobbyist gift ban for legislative receptions.

See the full text of the ethics complaint at this link

SEE ALSO: Clint Brewer

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Wrong Stuntbaby

By Kleinheider Posted on August 5, 2008 at 9:53 am

In an attempt to try and prove he is not simply a Mike Williams shillblogger, “Independent Reporter”, covers some other races:

On the other end of Senate District 4, there’s the Republican LoveFest Rematch between Stacey Campfield and Ronald Leadbetter with a cameo appearance by Jonathan Katsiros over a House seat in Knoxville. The major accomplishments in office so far of Campfield, a Caucasian by birth, have been to bring real bacon strips to the dignified House floor and to seek membership in the Black Caucus. Other than those two well-publicized pre-pubescent stunts, pretty much everything else Campfield’s ever done has just been routine amateur acts of total silliness. It’s listed as R-18, so you might want to put all the kids to bed before looking at the results of this one.

Now, you can say a lot of things about Stacey Campfield but what you cannot say is that he was the guy who brought bacon to the house floor in protest of the Community Enhancement Grants. That honor belongs to Rep. Brian Kelsey, the Stuntbaby of Germantown.

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Tags: Brian Kelsey, Jesse Hughes, Stacey Campfield, Stuntbaby of Germantown  

Personal Health Accounts

By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Rep. Brian Kelsey and Drew Johnson of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research will be speaking before the Health and Human Services committee regarding HB1231, which requires the Commissioner of Finance and Administration to seek a new federal waiver or an amendment to the TennCare waiver in order to implement a personal health accounts program according to the House Republican Caucus.

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Tags: Brian Kelsey, Drew Johnson, GQ Drew, Personal Health accounts, Stuntbaby of Germantown, Tenncare, Tennessee Center For Policy Research