Fun With Guns: Put a Contract on Your Opponent Edition
New Jersey has found a better way to win elections. OK Corral style.
Atlantic County Sheriff Frank Balles has decided to run for the New Jersey State Senate. He has a gun fetish and believes that the only kind of gun control we need is being able to hit your target … uh, or ask people to pull their guns when your opponent knocks on their doors.
Balles, who is training in the polls, made a speech in front of a mess of gun nuts. And this happened:
“When someone’s been elected for 30 years and he comes knocking on your door and tells you, ‘Listen, this is what I want to do to help you,’ quickly close your door, go inside,” Balles said.
A member of the audience quickly interjected, “And get your gun!”
Balles quickly responded, “And get your gun, exactly!”
Well, it does save you from having to pay consultants and pay for mailers.
This guy is a Sheriff? And not in Arizona?
1Just when I thought New Jersey was getting smarter we have a sheriff who proves me wrong. I hope this jerk tries to get my vote. Maybe I should go buy a gun myself in case he or one of his miserable minions knock on my door.
2Him have word salad falling out of him’s mouth! Wait until he finds out that he has to play back-up when the press demands he explain his statement. Boy! Is he going to hate that! And blame him miserable self on the press!
3Sherriff Balles? This guy belongs in “Blazing Saddles” with a name like that. I can just see Gene Wilder’s eyes pop.
4Let’s be sure no one ever offers to help Balles when the water’s rising and he can’t swim. “No, sorry, we’re not coming to help you–you might shoot the helper. You said so yourself.”
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