Custer State Park trolling for Caucasians

The State of South Dakota is spending half a million bucks to say welcome to the Black Hills, white people!

The ad requests auditions for a "Family Camping" under "Looking For:," and includes the following parameters: "Caucasian Male ages 35-40, Caucasian Female ages 35-40, Caucasian Girl ages 10-12, Caucasian Boy ages 7-9." Craig Pugsley, visitor services coordinator for Custer State Park, said the majority of visitors to the park are Caucasian, but he didn't have specific numbers. Rapid City Journal.

In the park named after a war criminal, a Custer State Park resort was fined in 2012 for abusing workers in the US under the H-2B immigrant worker program.

The cop who managed 'a bunch of racists' was sworn in as Rapid City's mayor.

In the end, our new mayor, Steve Allender, received 8,538 votes, or 54 percent of the vote, while his opponent, former Mayor Sam Kooiker, received 7,312, or 46 percent. More interesting is that without the votes from Kooiker’s home precinct and those precincts in Ward 1 susceptible to the dishonest suggestion of racism, Allender received 59 percent of the vote — 7,163 votes to 5,078 for Kooiker. The former mayor’s continued false attacks on Councilmember Charity Doyle are not only dishonest but deliberately malicious. No one in Rapid City believes that the choice of the chief of police had the vaguest element of racism. The support by nearly 60 percent of Rapid City's population bodes well for a more productive, less confrontational and economical growth-oriented future for our town. [LTE, Stan Adelstein]

Uh, grud?

“I would be eating lunch and Steve would say, ‘What’s on the menu today, a bowl of guts?’ Or if I was eating a sandwich he would say, ‘What you eating, a slab of lab?’ You know Labrador, a dog,” he said. “Then it rubbed off on the secretaries. I was right out in the squad room and I’d be sitting there eating a sandwich and the secretaries would say, ‘What you having today Glen, a slab of lab?’”

Read that here.

A GOP advertising company holding a no-bid contract with the state has been producing adverts that to many show a complete lack of taste and display sophomoric, even offensive content.

Confederate flags are flying in Rapid City showing support for white supremacists in neighboring states, South Carolina and Mississippi. Expect many more for the Sturgis Rally.