Blazing Saddles-Forks Style

New residents often inquire as to how they can learn how our township government works, especially our Board of Supervisors and relevant key “players”.

We highly recommend the 1974 movie, Blazing Saddles as a good primer. We believe that Mel Brooks’s character (Governor William J. LePetomaine) is a very good representation of how our Board of Supervisors, at least the male members, function.

This is a movie that you can play along with. Pick which movie character most matches our township characters and various carpetbaggers (developers, lawyers, builders, etc.) who all have roles within our ongoing township dramas.

We promise that even the first 30 minutes or so of this movie will have you thinking that the movie was based on Forks Township! After all, consider the movie’s tag line: “Never give a saga an even break.”

For more information about this movie, please check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/