"It’s not too late
to correct your mistake, but you better hurry. January was bad, but it’s going
to get way worse when Campfield has to trek up to Campbell County
to defend himself in a $750,000 libel suit filed by former state House candidate
Roger Byrge. Byrge is a Democrat who lost a 2008 race by 391 votes to Union
County Republican Chad Faulker, a Knox
County deputy sheriff.
At issue is this
Campfield blog post from September 2008: “Word is a ... mail piece has gone out
exposing Byrges (sic) multiple drug arrests. Including arrests for possession
and drug dealing. (I hear the mug shots are gold.)”
Unfortunately for
Campfield, “word” was false, and falsely accusing someone of a crime is libel,
so he’s been sued. Byrge’s lawyer, David Dunaway, accuses the senator of using
his state-owned computer to make a false allegation with the intention of
influencing an election.
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