Joe.My.God. LGBT News
First, an earlier report from Denver’s NBC affiliate:
Republican State Rep. Richard Holtorf, a candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, disclosed Friday that he financed an abortion for one of two girlfriends he impregnated, saying it helped her “live her best life.”
“I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time so she could live her best life,”
Holtorf said. Holtorf was a sponsor of a failed 2020 measure to ban abortion in Colorado after 22 weeks. In 2022, Holtorf made headlines when he dropped his handgun in the state Capitol while rushing to the floor to cast a vote against abortion rights.
Holtorf did not appear to recognize the disconnect between his statement lauding the benefits of abortion access for his pregnant girlfriend and his staunch opposition to abortion rights, which led him to call abortion rights supporters “godless heathens” last year.
Read the full article.
Now, watch every second of this utterly brutal interview with Holtorf by local anchor Kyle Clark. Really, watch it all.
When Holtorf weasels that sometimes you need an “exception” to anti-abortion laws, Clark fires back, “Is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf is the father?”
Holtorf is running against Beetleboob.
NEW: CO-4 GOP candidate Richard Holtorf has voted against abortion rights in the state legislature but said he respected his girlfriend’s right to have an abortion “so she could live her best life.” I asked him about that disconnect. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/WBB5YBmAcJ
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 13, 2024
Holtorf has demeaned the two women in the CO-4 GOP primary, calling Deborah Flora “Little Debbie” and saying Rep Lauren Boebert dresses like a prostitute. I asked Holtorf why he talks down to women. pic.twitter.com/ph23i7RoKM
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 13, 2024
Holtorf says, based on his military experience, Donald Trump’s plan to deport 10M+ people here illegally could be done “peacefully” using the US military. But he opposes deporting all of them, as Trump and Boebert suggest. pic.twitter.com/tlIy5Bj6Uz
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 13, 2024