SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ – If you are 25 years old and have tattoos on your body, aging perennial candidate Steve Lonegan has a problem with it. Lonegan today slammed his opponent Parker Space over his tattoos, saying he looks like a member of a biker gang simply because he has tattoos.
Lonegan criticized Space in particular over a tattoo of the General Lee, an orange 1969 Dodge Charger featured in the fictional television show The Dukes of Hazard from 1979 to 1985. That car also featured a Confederate flag on its roof.
But it’s not just the General Lee that is making the 66-year-old baby boomer upset.
“Going around made up like you belong in some biker gang isn’t a good look for anyone over 25,” Lonegan said.
Ironically, Lonegan is not a member of the squad. He’s not even a Democrat running for office. He claims to be a conservative running for office in the predominantly Republican stronghold of Sussex County.
Lonegan doesn’t have any tattoos. He also doesn’t have any election wins as he bounces year after year across New Jersey, trying to win elections, but never does.
“Getting a Confederate flag tattoo after a national tragedy doesn’t make you a conservative,” Lonegan noted. “It makes you a fool.”
Lonegan said he was an expert when it came to studying Space’s body canvas of tattoos.
“I’ve seen an inventory of his tattoos,” Lonegan creepily admitted. “I’ve also seen an accompanying photo of some open skin where [he] was thinking of locating a tattoo of the General Lee — the Dukes of Hazzard car with the Confederate flag.”
Lonegan is now calling upon Republican leadership to cancel Space over his tattoos, which he feels are unbecoming of a Republican elected official, and a human being over the age of 25.
Lonegan said his newfound fetish over Space’s tattoos is not some creepy act of voyeurism. It’s about fighting racism. While Lonegan appears to be catering to the far left with his attempt to cancel Space, he has not made his stance known on body piercings, hair extensions, or other forms of self-expression and body art.
The candidate also did not clarify whether or not tattoos were appropriate for bikers over the age of 25 years of age.