October 02, 2023 02:04 PM UTC

State Rep. Richard Holtorf: Roughly 75% Coherent

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• by: Colorado Pols

State Rep. Richard Holtorf (R-Akron) has never been all that good with words. He definitely likes using them, don’t get us wrong, but he doesn’t always put the words in the right order or think about whether he should be saying some of the words in the first place.

For example, we could cite any number of asinine pieces of legislation put forward by Holtorf. We could mention the time that Holtorf threatened the Mesa County Board of Commissioners over his own misunderstanding about mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, or when Holtorf said that he cared more about “life” than any other legislator.

Remember “It’s the industry that is unappreciated in speeches“? Yep, Holtorf.

Calling a fellow legislator “Buckwheat” and then pretending that he didn’t understand why this was a racial slur? Holtorf.

Openly acknowledging that his own obstruction tactics at the State Capitol accomplished nothing? Holtorf.

And then there was this verbatim sentence: “I in college had a friend who was an African American and he was a homosexual, and we were good buddies.” In this sentence, “I” is Richard Holtorf.

Holtorf was playing with his words again recently in comments to Colorado Newsline about his likely run for Congress in CO-04, where incumbent Republican Rep. Ken Buck seems ready to retire. Holtorf is salty with Buck lately because of, well, whatever the hell this means:

“Ken Buck’s trying to be the Liz Cheney of Colorado and not supporting the past president, President Trump, when the Democrats were coming for him like a pack of wild hyenas with the Jan. 6. protests and riots. Ken Buck was on the wrong side of history on that one.”

Ken Buck is like former Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney because neither of them defended then-President Donald Trump when Democrats were breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021? We’re pretty sure that’s what Holtorf means, but there’s no way to know for sure.

Holtorf also told Colorado Newsline that the “final straw” in his decision to oppose Buck was when the longtime Congressman appeared on CNN:

“That leaves constituents of CD 4 and Colorado Republicans with a very bad taste in their mouth,” Holtorf said. “He’s obviously having a mid-life political crisis, and if he’s looking for his next job maybe he ought to finish this job before he goes.”

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The only thing left to say is this: Please, please, PLEASE let there be a CO-04 Republican Primary debate in 2024 that includes both Holtorf and Heidi Ganahl on the same stage.