WATCH: Alabama Legislator Threatens Reporter With A Golf Club

Yesterday, we showed you a video of a Puerto Rican legislator making unwanted advances on a female journalism student, courtesy of ABC News. As it turns out, there’s more where that came from. ABC has just released another video of a lawmaker behaving badly: This time, they caught an Alabama state legislator threatening a journalist with a golf club.

This video, like the last one, was filmed this summer in Louisville, Kentucky. State lawmakers were in town to attend the annual National Conference of State Legislatures. Dan Lieberman, a student at Columbia University’s Journalism School, traveled to a golf course to catch up with a group of lawmakers from Alabama, who were being treated to a game by Alabama gaming lobbyist Greg Jones.

Lieberman asked the group whether they were golfing rather than attending the conference. Though Jones and one state representative answered his questions without incident, a third man, Rep. Artis McCampbell, was hostile to Lieberman.

“I have nothing to say,” McCampbell said brusquely after Lieberman began questioning him. When the reporter repeated himself, McCampbell responded by pulling a golf club out of his bag.

“Look, if you don’t want me to take this to you, leave,” he said.

Though the legislator wasn’t exactly waving the club in Lieberman’s face, his statement is fairly shocking—especially since McCampbell knew he was being filmed. See the video for yourself below.

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