A Tennessee Representative resigned on Thursday, April 20, minutes before the House gaveled back into session following a lunch recess, Jennifer Easton, communications director for the House Republican Caucus, confirmed to The Epoch Times. Rep. Scotty Campbell was also the vice chair of the House Republican Caucus.
The resignation letter, provided to The Epoch Times by House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s office, stated only, “I resign from the Tennessee House of Representatives. Effective immediately.” It was submitted to the Speaker at 2:18 p.m., just ten minutes before the House came back into session.
Six hours before his resignation, Nashville’s News Channel 5 Investigates released a previously unpublished memo from a bipartisan House ethics subcommittee to Speaker Sexton (R) from March 29, noting Campbell violated workplace discrimination and harassment policy….