Wednesday, October 2, 2019

A$$hole of the Month

And it's only October 2nd!

Thousand Oaks, California Police Chief Tim Hale is the picture perfect representation of the political hack in uniform: "A charity flag football event in honor of fallen Ventura County Sgt. Ron Helus, the deputy killed in the Borderline mass shooting in 2018, has been put on hold after organizers say a local police chief and a Democratic politician derailed it because they didn’t want Republicans at the event."

To hell with the money that would have been raised for the family of the fallen officer, I guess. Can't have any of that Trump trash smelling up the place under any circumstances.


All in favor of Tim Hale being appointed as chief gun confiscator for, say, Harlan County, Kentucky, raise your hands!

Update: More from Jack Dunphy.

Note of clarification: Dunphy identifies Hale as the Ventura County Sheriff Captain who heads the patrol station covering Thousand Oaks. The original article referred to him as a police chief. He's still a$$hole of the month.

9 comments:

Steve Skubinna said...

Does this mean Republicans are not under police protection there? If so, what are their options, since arming themselves for self defense is off the table?

I presume they are still required to pay taxes, though. Because social contract, or something.

Paco said...

Great questions, Steve. I'd like to hear Hale's answers.

Veeshir said...

Because Tolerance!.

rinardman said...

Wait, a Dimocrat police chief? I thought a lot of Dimocrats weren't real fond of the police, these days. This guy must be really conflicted, being a Dimocrat police officer. Maybe that's why he's an a-hole.

Or, maybe he's just naturally an a-hole.

Spiny Norman said...

Police Chief, Sheriffs Captain, politician-in-uniform either way.

Spiny Norman said...

Trolls at Jack Murphy's post claim the organizers "canceled of their own free will" and are the ones dishonoring Sgt Helus. The very same troll claimed "They should vet who they invite", so the organizers are to blame no matter what.

Democrat CA Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, who represents Thousand Oaks, also objected to Republicans being there, so I'd say she also gets an "a$$hole of the month" nomination.

RebeccaH said...

Forget it. Tim Hale is a California official so he's expected to be petty scum, and he was certainly happy to oblige.

Paco said...

Spiny: I'm sure they won't mind sharing the award.

Jonah said...

Looks like Sheriff Will Teasle to me.