Turn that frown upside down, you silly clown. According to a Knoxville News Sentinel front page story today, Rep. Stacey Campfield was kicked out of a UT football game for wearing a luchador mask.

The article made it sound like Rep. Campfield was acting a little weird, but anyone who knows Rep. Campfield probably has all the context they need to udnerstand the police officer’s concern.

“Curious about this odd behavior and concerned that he had misunderstood our interaction, I caught up with him in front of the concession stand in Section D,” McReynolds wrote. “I … began to tell him that I was not asking him to leave the section, just to take off his mask. Again … he interrupted and said, ‘I was just taking a walk. Is it illegal to walk around?’ I told him ‘no,’ and was surprised by his sudden confrontational attitude. … He again asked if walking around was illegal. I told him ‘no’ and again began to explain that he did not have to leave his seat, just take off the mask. He continued to ask if walking around was illegal. … Thinking that something was not right (he kept saying the same phrase over and over, would not make eye contact and kept shifting on his feet, left to right) I asked to see his ticket.”

When Campfield gave the officer his ticket, it was for Section LL, not Section B.

According to the report, the officer asked Campfield why he had not said he was going to his correct seat, and he said again, “I told you I was walking around. Is it illegal to walk around?”

I’m not sure what Rep. Campfield was looking for in Section B at the UT football game, but I asked him Twitter and here is what he said:

- camp4u @nitweet It wasn’t the mask the little girl was afraid of. She was disturbed that I was there friendless and playing rocky top with maracas.

If he was looking for friendship, he clearly failed by scaring little girls.

The incident began inside Neyland Stadium when a mother and her two daughters became “upset because a man was sitting in their section (Section B) with a mask on,” according to McReynolds’ report. “The girls were upset because they had been told they not could wear masks into the stadium and the mask was such that it was bothering them.”

More from the local Twitterati:

• jrlind @Goldni If @kleinheider doesn’t start referring to Rep. Campfield as “La Legislación Luchador” I will punch him in the mouth about 1 hour ago from web
• GoldnI Even if the rest of today sucks, it’ll be ok because Stacey Campfield got kicked out of a UT game wearing a Mexican wrestling mask
• Kleinheider @RandomChick Campfield is a teetotaler last I heard.
• christianzav Stacey Campfield kicked out of Neyland Stadium for wearing a luchador mask. Makes perfect sense. http://bit.ly/2vOo5A
• Lynnster And: “Campfield is right up front showing us that his potatoes are half-baked. I vote for him solely because of the entertainment value.”

Tags: luchador, mask, Neyland Stadium, Republican, Stacey Campfield, UT

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