A lawmaker shouted at Holtorf, and his remarks provoked a temporary break in legislative business. Democratic Rep. Leslie Herod, who is Black, rushed to the podium to confront him. Video of the remarks spread widely on social media.
Buckwheat was a Black child character in the “Our Gang” or “Little Rascals,” serials of the 1930s, and is widely considered a racial stereotype. Holtorf told The Colorado Sun that he wasn’t aware of the racial connotations of the term.
Democratic House Speaker Alec Garnett told a silent chamber on Thursday that he’d had a long conversation with Holtorf and with lawmakers who were offended by the remarks.
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Dave Donelson, elected in District 1.
Randy Helms, elected in District 2.
Springs Opportunity Fund, a so-called 527 committee, named for the IRS code under which such groups are organized, spent $128,000 promoting candidacies of Dave Donelson in District 1, Randy Helms in District 2 and Mary Elizabeth Fabian in District 5. Itâs called a âdark moneyâ group because the rules allow them to shield the source of campaign money from the public.
All three candidates supported by Springs Opportunity Fund are registered Republicans. Though Council races are nonpartisan, it appears the outside committee carried out a GOP mission, given who was pulling the strings. More on that later.
To-go alcohol sales from restaurants have been a lifeline for an industry that was ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
No surprise then that the industry would like to extend the opportunity to keep this revenue stream once the pandemic ends. House Bill 21-1027 would do that in a measured way.
The Colorado Restaurant Association cites experts who estimate it could take three to five years for full-service restaurants to fully recover from $3 billion in losses incurred during the pandemic. Even today, with things inching back to normal, employment among Colorado restaurant workers is still down 14%, according to an economist with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS).