A Colorado Republican state lawmaker on Wednesday disrupted the legislature while he himself was speaking after referring to a colleague in the chamber as “Buckwheat,” a racist slur.
GOP state Rep. Richard Holtorf made headlines just two weeks ago after defending himself amid accusations from another House member that he had been “talking about Black-on-Black crime” as the two rode an elevator, The Denver Post reported.
The paper noted that Holtorf “is frequently chastised on House floor for violating chamber rules of decorum.” “I in college had a friend who was an African American and he was a homosexual, and we were good buddies,” Rep.