U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis’s campaign field director was fired Thursday, a day after he was arrested on aggravated assault charges for allegedly harassing Davis’ challenger, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan, and her supporters at a campaign event in Springfield.
Levi Lovell, 25, was arrested Wednesday evening outside JP Kelly’s Bar, 300 E. Adams St., after an altercation with two attendees of the Londrigan event and a bar employee. Springfield police were called a little after 7:30 p.m.
Emma Brown, Londrigan’s campaign manager, said the fundraiser was a ticketed event. Lovell was asked to leave, she said, and became belligerent and “started shoving people.” Staff from JP Kelly’s escorted him out, she said.
Springfield police Lt. Brian Oakes said Lovell, who lives in Hillsboro, showed up to the event “purposely trying to record members of Betsy Dirsken Londrigan’s campaign, trying to get them to say something inappropriate.”
Oakes said Lovell “smelled like an alcoholic beverage” and was “believed to be intoxicated.”
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