Posted on 04/02/2010 12:20:16 PM PDT by Ladycalif
During a Republican sheriff’s-candidate forum inside a gated Mission Viejo community in late March, the audience voiced concerns about the federal government limiting water supplies to California communities. Bill Hunt, the former sheriff’s lieutenant turned PI, grabbed a microphone, then stood and gazed confidently around the room before offering his solution.
“I’d put together an armed posse of deputies at the shut-off value,” said a dead-serious Hunt, winning generous applause from the Casta Del Sol Republican Club. He knew, he told me later, that his confrontational stance would win over the elderly crowd.
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That would be "valve", for those of you speaking English.
“My most memorable image is of a white-haired woman who expressed her support for Hunt by repeatedly banging her wood cane on the floor and yelling something inaudible.”
I think it was “Rarebit...that side-winding, no good cracker croaker can’t come in here no more.”
“...start forcing everyone arrested on misdemeanor charges to go to jail...”
Bad plan. It’ll really tie up the deputies on BS and the jail will be overflowing. Then they’ll get sued in federal court for having a too full jail, and lose.
...well, perhaps they can just house them in tents with cots as they do in Arizona. It’s a fairly decent system there too, pink underwear included!
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