THE Queensland campaign has been marred by its first arrest, with police taking a man wearing an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt into custody for allegedly being a “public nuisance”.

The arrest occurred Thursday morning on the Corner of Martin and Brunswick Streets in Fortitude Valley, where campaign teams from the Labor and Liberal parties had set up on opposite sides of the road.

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The arrested man, Iain Fogerty of New Farm, was released on watchhouse bail, and is due back in court on February 4.

Mr Fogerty operates the Not Campbell Newman parody account on Twitter.

Senator Claire Moore, who was with Labor candidate Grace Grace’s team, described the police response as “just ridiculous”.

media_camera Ten police attend the ‘public nuisance’ call to arrest Iain Fogerty, a man wearing an ‘I’m with stupid’ t-shirt and standing among LNP campaigners on a Brisbane street. Picture: Judi Jabour

“I have been campaigning for more years than I care to recall and I have never seen anything like this before,” she said.

Ms Moore said the man in the “I’m with stupid” shirt — which she said was not associated with the ALP campaign — inserted himself among the LNP campaigners much to the amusement of onlookers.

Before long three patrol cars and a paddy wagon with an estimated 10 police officers arrived to arrest Mr Fogerty on the basis of having received two complaints.

“It was just totally over the top,” Ms Moore said.

“Rather than telling the bloke to just move on, they arrest him.”