JONATHAN CHAIT FEBRUARY 16, 2011
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You can take the woman out of Ohio, but you can't take the Ohio out of the woman:
Laura Campanello, 43, was leaving a meeting with her 17-year-old son’s guidance counselor at Bayshore High School when she passed a woman whom she believes was too scantily clad. After Campanello asked the woman--who was visiting the Bradenton school with an enrolling student--to cover up her chest area, an argument broke out.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff Office affidavit, Deputy Greg Jenkins, the school’s resourse officer, arrived on the scene and advised Campanello that the other woman “was an adult and that I could not tell this lady how to dress.”
“Oh then I can…just do this,” Campanello responded. As detailed by Jenkins, Campanello then allegedly “pulled the front of her blouse down reached in with both hands and pulled both breast out and squeezed them together.” The impromptu display in front of several onlookers resulted in Campanello’s arrest for disorderly conduct.
Campanello, pictured in the above mug shot, was booked into the county jail on the misdemeanor rap. After posting $220 cash bond, she was freed early this morning.
In an interview, Campanello, a former Spanish teacher from Ohio whose various medical conditions forced a recent move to Florida, denied exposing her breasts. “I am a proper person,” she said, adding that Deputy Jenkins was a “chubby, rude, lewd, and lascivious” man who “had it out for her.”
7 comments
This lady is clearly a piece of work, but she harmed no one. Last year, an assistant attorney general in your home state, Andrew Shirvell, of MICHIGAN, unmercifully harassed a gay UM student leader, Chris Armstrong, but - to my knowledge - there was zero mention of this here at Chaitblog.
- liberalref
February 16, 2011 at 12:56pm
That Ass't AG is clearly a lunatic and a menace, but this IS Jonathan's blog, lib.
- VBKim
February 16, 2011 at 2:07pm
And we pay money to comment at Chaitblog, VB. So then we should go quietly like good little Germans? Maybe you are not an authoritarian, but you clearly come across as one in your comment. I am hugely praiseworthy of the vast majority of what JC writes, as anyone knows who spends any time out here at all. He is simply a brilliant political analyst. But his taste in music and movies is less than stellar, and his Ohio obsession is just bizarre. Sometimes his humor is on the juvenile side, but then he is only 37. And I reserve the right to say so.
- liberalref
February 16, 2011 at 2:36pm
Remember when he briefly posted the frog/chimpanzee video? Now THAT was juvenile. To be fair, though, Ohio *is* undeniably a rank shithole.
- subterran
February 16, 2011 at 4:05pm
Mercy, lib, just joking! I'll remember not to do THAT anymore. Meanwhile, I've got to go find my 17 year old daughter to tell her that someone else thinks I'm an authoritarian.
- VBKim
February 16, 2011 at 4:53pm
Well, I didn't realize you were joking, VB, else I would not have written what I wrote about your comment. My rule of thumb is if something is so flat that you cannot tell it is a joke, than it isn't, or at least it might as well not be.
- liberalref
February 16, 2011 at 5:41pm
My daughter doesn't think I'm funny either.
- VBKim
February 16, 2011 at 6:56pm