and said I would be looking into who sponsers their rodeo and will be writing the sponsors and boycotting the product.

I really think it will be more effective from those in California.

http://crestonclassicrodeo.org/support.html

September 14, 15 and 16

2012 CCR Top Hands
BENEFACTOR - Al Webster
GRAND MARSHAL - Jerry Bello
IN MEMORIUM - George Hearst

Diamond Horseshoe $1000 Sponsorship
2D Ranch / Aran Ryan
Central Coast Home Health Care / Pritt Family
First Solar / Dawn Legg
Rabobank / Chris Yerich
Rainbow Ranch / Shay-Hansen
Rohrer Hay & Feed /Linda Rohrer
Satterlee Family / In Memory of John Harmon

Gold Horseshoe $500 Sponsorship
Aptos Smoke Tree LLC / Mike Romelfanger
Atascadero Hay & Feed / Kevin Buffet
C & N Tractors / Jeff Sponhaltz
Chandler Ranch / Linda Wood
Crop Productions / Darin Chabot
Farm Credit West / Sarah Kramer
G. J. Gardner Homes / Russ Goldman
IQMS / Nancy Flamm
KPRL - AM / Kevin Will
Pacific Beverage / Bud Light
Paso Robles Chamber - Agri Bus. / Mike Gibson & Tiffany Hendy
Paul & Jan Switzer
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Bella Vina / Jacob Pettyjohn
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Carnanza Hunting Club / Max Villa - Alex Kuhnle
Chris Pauley
Cole Farms Inc. / Mike & Meghan Cole
Continental Labor & Staffing Sources
Creston News.org / Ann Spencer
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Dave Christy
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Farm Supply
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Forster Trucking / Hugh & Judi Forster
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Quail Valley Adelaide Inn / Matt Masia
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RE/MAX Parkside / Elissa Williams
Rick & Shirley Heim
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Shadow Run Vineyards and Winery / Les & Susan Evans
Switzer Diesel Repair / Joel Switzer
The Rodeo Paso Robles / Sutt Miller
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West Coast Auto & Towing / Ryan Amborn
Wild Willow Ranch / Mike & Hilde Romelfanger

Frends of the Rodeo $100 Sponsorship.
Bernice Raymond
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Forever Ranch / Mike & Jan Barrett
Gay Molina
Idler's of Paso Robles / Don Idler
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Meade Canine Rescue Foundation
Navajo Rock & Block / Albert Lewis
Pam Pierson
Quail Valley Ranch / Roger & Colette Morse
Rossi Transport Service / Steven Rossi
Skinner Cattle Co / Bob Skinner
The Metal Shed / Bruce & Rosie Hebron
Valentines Concrete
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Paso Robles Ford Lincoln Mercury
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rodeos. Rodeos are cruel, even when they aren't racist.

sent an email to the Secretary.

strongly-worded email to the President of the Board of directors. If he replies, I'll post it here.

"Clothes off"? Sounds like a pathetic idiot.

had a lot of fun with these ignorant clowns. Such an ignorant country. I just don't understand.

I am seething with rage. How dare they.

Watch me end up with a bunch of rodeo spam now.

mens porn. whether we want it or not.

ha ha ha

so fuckin funny

As a female, I noticed the sexism before I "got" the racism implied.

Neither should be secondary.

There are, after all, women of all colors who would be doubly-offended by that comment.

for you.

got it. i expect no less.

back at you ...

It's stupid and nasty on both levels.
.

Who is being forced in to porn here?

President Obama could walk on water...and then change that water to the world's best, award winning wine...

And these racist/bigot/Bagger Christian types, would still not vote for him. He is NON-WHITE! Period.

They want THEIR White House back.

To me...THAT is THE biggest hurdle that we have, getting him reelected.

getting the bottom of his feet wet.

as a liberal elitist because he turned water into wine and not the Budweiser that "Real Americans" drink.

the Fox News headline would read, “Obama can't swim."

EXACTLY !!!

& Rec !!!

racist and sexist all in the same joke , reducing both ann and michelle .

to wrap around the simple statement "I hate everyone different from me".

Pretending to be sharing this "joke" with a crowd while really trying to tell them to hate the President and his wife along with you is dishonest as well as hateful.

...a business should not be promoting that kind of shit.

PB

...urging that a private business fires a racist is not censorship, so fuck off.

^^^ Note to jurors: the "you" in question is a hypothetical "you," not the poster I'm replying to.

I used to live not that far from Creston. That area is full of rednecks, and it's the rodeo besides. Not my kind of venue.

because she hit the nail on the head. The republicans will give people peace of mind for their bigotry in exchange for their economic agenda.

at www.sanluisobispo.com. This is going to get around, and this racist moron is going to be in a world of hurt over this. He is named in the newspaper story, and isn't hard to find on the Internet. Some correspondence with the Rodeo organizations should make this an issue, and it's likely to make the national wire services, and maybe even the TV news. I believe this man has announced his last rodeo. I won't post his name or email address. A guy will have to look it up for himself.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/09/15/2228940/announcers-racist-joke-offends.html

board that it was unacceptable the better. Thanks!

Another rodeo is planned in Santa Barbara county and is going to feature bull fights of the no kill variety, however, bull fights are still cruel even when you don't torment and kill the bull. Also, they are very dangerous. It's a form that dates from Bronze Age Crete and maybe it's time we so-called civilized people need to put barbaric practices and entertainment to rest.

How many of these people would even have the initiative to register? Sounds to me like they're a bunch of low lifes who spend a LOT of time in bars and stuff and may just not give a sh*t about actually putting themselves out to vote...

Yes, they are very right wing mostly because they have money. I'm thinking though that the entertainment was brought in from elsewhere and the local attendees may not share that sentiment. I am going to look into it and send them a letter about my disgust.

from my zip code. You can believe I will give them hell and maybe I might try to find out more at the local coffee place about this guy. It's a small town and most people know each other.

Power to the Cleita!

Ed Kutz



Arroyo Grande, CA 93420

805-481-6889
eekarc@aol.com

I don't think there are too many though unless he has a son or father with the same name. I will email him. Thanks for that. I couldn't find him listed in the local phone book.

too much longer.


http://www.4theride.com/merchants/ed-kutz/

I will be sending them a letter about this. When cleaning up the neighborhood, it's best to start in your own backyard.

...I'll highlight it as a big part of the racist dog-whistle. Up until the 70s or so NatGeo was (in)famous for its photos of bare-breasted or otherwise seminude non-western women (Japanese pearl divers, people in Amazon tribes where nobody wore much, that sort of thing), almost a sort of quasi-covert soft porn. Or at least that's how it was used by several decades-worth of teenaged American (white) boys.

So it's no accident it was "Playboy" for Ann but "National Geographic" for Michelle.

for but the older, racist ones who knew about NG and the bare breasted naked native women back then.

It's not as if he tested it in focus groups. I think it was more just his notion of a "subtle" dig.

The main reason I called attention to it was to make sure it didn't go over any heads on our end. That's the part that takes it past "crude and sexist" (which it is too, right up front) into explicitly racial.

On edit: I want to clearly state that it's just as bad for the sexism as the racism. The only difference between the two here is that the sexism is so open and up front it's easier to miss the specific racial dig, especially if you don't know that bit of context.

But I'm glad you pointed it out.

I sent a comment to members of the rodeo board and urge others to do the same

http://crestonclassicrodeo.org/contact.php

The pressure must be mounting with the publicity. Hopefully they fire the idiot announcer by tomorrow.

http://crestonclassicrodeo.org/contact.php

Ask Hugh Hefner if he would offer Mrs Willard ANYTHING to pose with her Clothes ON in his Mag.

National Geographic? This f****** Racist Asshole thought he was being soooo clever. What a Dumbfuck.

long before anyone else. which happened in May 1965. Just 12 years after the magazine started. Think whoever announced it is no Playboy fan. The adult industry isn't known for racism. How else can someone from India pose?

and treated humanely as any other worker would be?

I tend to think adult women can take responsibility for their own choices and do with their bodies as they please.

Do you not?

since Michelle looks 30 years younger than Ann. even Cindi McCain looks younger. Seriously though if the first lady and looks dept is the winner how'd Bush get elected? Laura Bush is more independent really but that is one insanely racist idiot that should be fire.

Creston is in the "North County" of San Luis Obispo County. The Congressman for that area is Kevin McCarthy (R) whom you might recall as one of the attendees at the infamous meeting where the Republicans decided to derail, deflect, block, and destroy, anything the President tries to do in his first term. So this does not surprise me at all from that area. I lived in that party of the County, and my daughter attended the public schools there. I recall one of the teachers at the public school held a bible study at lunch in her classroom. It's right wing, with a lot of rich ranchers, and play cowboys. Hated living up that way.. the bumper stickers alone were enough to make you cry.

Arroyo Grande. Most of my neighbors are Independents leaning right. The liberal part of SLO, I have found out, is a narrow stretch along the beach. We have been gerrymandered back into Lois Capps district for the next session in January. All, I can say is thank God.

Family Values voters?

and I feel good.

this is how they think. It's discouraging. There are nice people around here too, but it's the rancher, horsey crowd that are this bigoted and they don't even think they are. I went on two dates with a local guy and I couldn't take the conversation anymore about Mexicans and queers, etc., etc. so I cut the second date short. When I told him, I couldn't tolerate his racism anymore he was truly surprised that I thought he was racist and sure, he couldn't stand queers. No one can and he couldn't understand why I would.

No. They know damn well that joke is racist.

absolutely, objectively, positively, without a doubt, unquestionably, in you face, non-ambiguously, Pure and simple...

offensive racism!

This kind of thing you squish with your foot.

...send a letter off to the President asking if this type of behavior and language is normal for their "family" event. Hoping for a response.

could ever hope to have.

it was a rodeo clown named Mike Hayhurst

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/09/15/2228940/announcers-racist-joke-offends.html

some in the crowd mistakenly thought it was the announcer