If you read Huckleberries Online over the weekend, you know that ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke spoke at America’s Promise Ministries in Sandpoint to drum up support for a possible presidential run in two years. I posted information re: the visit, provided by Keith Kinnaird, of the Bonner County Bee, as well as links re: the visit provided by Duke’s Web site. Apparently, the visit attract 25, according to the supremacist Web site White Reference. I’m going to post a link but I’m going to strongly caution you that the report from White Reference contains highly objectionable language. I’ll keep looking to see if a legitimate news outlet covered the event.

In the Bonner County Bee, reporter Keith Kinnaird reports that David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, will be in Sandpoint today seeking support for a possible presidential campaign (see Aug. 28, Aug. 31 items on Duke Web site). Apparently, Duke posted the announcement on his official website that he will speak on “white civil rights” at America’s Promise Ministries as part of a nation wide tour to discuss “the critical issues facing America and the world and the possibility of entering the Republican primaries for president of the United States,” the Bee story said. Laura Bry, president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force learned about Duke’s visit while checking a social networking site. “It’s all over Twitter,” she told the Bee. More here.

Question: Why would Duke go to Sandpoint to gauge support for his presidential candidacy?

“My photogenic & fellow sun-loving friend Stephanic Smith enjoys the lazy river at Boulder Beach/Silverwood Theme Park,” posts Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. “Although Silverwood Theme Park is open weekends through September, Labor Day weekend is the last chance to splash in their Boulder Beach waterpark.”

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