Pennington County under fire: SDGOP legislator getting flayed over KKK remarks

From the beginning, he sensed that something was off. Soon after Rapid City attorney Dana Hanna saw two Indian parents lose their children into the South Dakota foster system in less than a minute during a routine court appearance in October 2011, he began asking questions and requesting records from the Pennington County Court Clerk's office. [Suzette Brewer, Swept Away, Part 2: Oglala v. Van Hunnik]

Not long after two boys were rescued from a mud hole, and a Sioux Falls legislator made an ass of herself at CPAC, a GOP lawmaker from Rapid City has stepped into a manure pile:

Republican #sdleg Wants Jim Crow Back So Businesses Can Discriminate Based on Race http://t.co/HwIgkIYllE http://t.co/w4HqTjz5OR #sdsen
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) March 17, 2014

I live in SD & cannot take the embarassment. I will vote for an OLD SHOE over Phil Jensen. Seriously. Who is running against him? @SDDems
— Emily Frances (@EmilyFrancesSD) March 17, 2014

#SouthDakota GOP #sdleg KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays via @RawStory http://t.co/9XyFAuBxrK http://t.co/w4HqTjz5OR
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) March 17, 2014

#sdleg #SouthDakota Lawmaker Says Businesses Should Be Able To Turn Away African-Americans http://t.co/RXlz78W3rC via @thinkprogress
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) March 17, 2014

#sdleg GOP Lawmaker: KKK-owned Businesses Deserve Right To Ban Blacks And Gays http://t.co/36gAy04EC4 via @crooksandliars
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) March 17, 2014

#sdleg Phil Jensen: GOP's earth hater code decrypted http://t.co/AnM18WSQMJ
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) March 17, 2014