CO-04: GOP Lawmaker Grilled On Why Abortion Was 'Best Choice' For His Girlfriend, But Not Others

[RandySF]

A Colorado Republican had a hard time explaining why he said he “respected” his girlfriend’s right to abortion but voted against abortion rights as a state representative.

Richard Holtorf, who is running against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert to represent Colorado’s 4th District in Congress, was asked about the seeming hypocrisy during a Wednesday broadcast on Denver station KUSA, and he didn’t really have a good answer.

Earlier this year, Holtorf revealed that he once provided financial support to a girlfriend amid her own abortion so she could “live her best life,” despite also sponsoring a failed 2020 measure that would have banned the procedure in the state after 22 weeks.

“I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time,” Holtorf said in January.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-holtorf-abortion-kyle-clark_n_666c6518e4b0dabf8cf78706

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Does he even know the word hypocrite? Probably not.

[peppertree]

15. They seldom do - and couldn't care less if they did.

Freedumb for me - but not for thee.

[Deep State Witch]

2. Abortion For My Girlfriend, but Not For You

Wow... It's hard to tell which of them is more of a hypocrite - him or Bobo.

[0rganism]

5. Does Bobo even have sufficient self-awareness to be hypocritical?

I'm kind of torn on whether she's sentient at all.

On the other hand, Holtorf appears to have enough of a memory of and regard for certain events to be obviously and intentionally hypocritical in thought and action, while Bobo floats about like a hyper-allergenic pollen cloud on the breeze, damaging those around her with no forethought or comprehension of her own inanity. So IMHO this Holtorf guy wins the hypocrisy contest, although his relative newness may be leading me to project anthropomorphic capabilities onto him prematurely. He may yet turn out to be merely another shapeless mass of Republican protoplasm, hopefully we don't have to find out.

[soldierant]

19. I've been thinking for some time, and occasionally suggesting

that none of them has what it takes to realize they are hypocrites. Whether thatis s self-awareness or awareness thatall the people they lionize are lying like most people breathe, and that therefore most of what they believe is lies, or something else, or all of the above, I can't say.

[Think. Again.]

3. Sometimes I find it hard to believe...

...that the existence of rightwingism is actually real, and not just some kind of fever-dream I'm having.

[TSExile]

4. Freedoms for me and not for thee.

That should be their official motto.

[Cha]

6. Too bad he's running Against boebert.. I want her GONE. And yeah

this Idiot is the Face of the MagASS Gaslit Hypocrites.

[oldsoftie]

14. Yes, me too. SHE must GO. Even if this dick wins.

Please telll me there are more running than just those 2

[usaf-vet]

18. Don't say "dick" around Boebert aka BoBo she might get the wrong idea.

[oldsoftie]

24. HAHAHAHAHA thank you; that just made my day

[soldierant]

20. I think there are more Republicans running,

but I don't thing there are any others who appear to have a chance.

There are also some decent people in the Democratic primary, the front runners being Ike McCorkle and John Padora. Whether a Democratic ominee has a ghost of a chance in that district is debateable.

[oldsoftie]

25. I had a whole thing written but apparently it was al wrong

I dont know what's right now!

[central scrutinizer]

7. He didn't want to be saddled with child support

He couldn’t live his best life with those payments

[erronis]

10. From what's been reported, BoBo is quite adept with her hand.

For a few more bucks she'll probably throw in some other parts.

[MuseRider]

9. Mans lips are moving?

I totally do not care anymore. We are making a formation, our heads are down and we are going to eventually make you pay for what you have done to us. This "look at how good I am" bullshit does not stand anymore, it stood too long as it is. When I see men actually out in the heat and cold and up in the lands of dealing with legislators saying what we need and want them to say without their little eye rolls and chuckles THEN maybe we will listen. Too many good men that I know let us down every single time with a wink, a fist bump or a "Oh Well" shrug, you know how they are.

I have no clue the value of this man who decided HIS girlfriend got to live her best life. HE GOT TO LIVE HIS BEST LIFE.

[nakocal]

11. He is a POS ...

But his ban was at 22 weeks, not complete. But he still lacks integrity, honesty, compassion, understanding of the law, human values ...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Nazis want to force conformity on everyone but themselves.

[republianmushroom]

13. Those republican values, do as I say, not as I do.

[tornado34jh]

16. How many of these Republican politicians secretly have done it with girlfriends/mistresses?

I will bet you $295 million, which is the most expensive house in the United States, that they have done so secretly. Yet, they want to preach godly values? Godly values my backside!

N.B. The $295 million bet, I mean that figuratively, not literally. There is no way I could afford that place.

[B.See]

26. THIS! I mean, hey, NO one actually believes

these hypocrites of privilege aren't running about hither and tither getting their secret mistresses' 'problems' quietly "taken care of" left and right, do they?

I'd have thought it common knowledge.

[ZonkerHarris]

17. "Respected her rights".....

And then he continued “but what, I’m supposed to respect the rights of women I’m not banging? Fuck that!“

[IcyPeas]

21. *WATCH the interview here*. Starts at 36:15 in

Talking about exceptions for abortion Kyle asks "is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf is the father?".

[Sucha NastyWoman]

22. A hypocrite vs. an exhibitionist

What a primary! Only in Republican America!

[Daylily]

23. He hates foster kids, too.

Abortion was good for his girlfriend, probably saved a sweet child from him as a father. He also voted against a bill that would have given foster children extra help after they age out of the system. Holtorf stated that they needed to get on with it and grow up. This despite data that showed these kids often were homeless within three years of leaving the system. We as a nation desperately need to help those kids. The system is plagued with uncaring people who use it only as a source of income. Then these kids with no real training or skills are out on their own sink or swim.

[Demovictory9]

27. "Is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf's the father?" Clark asked.

“Why do you seek to deny the choice that you said was best for your girlfriend’s life?” Clark began to ask.

“Let me finish explaining,” Holtorf interrupted, but Clark pressed him, asking, “Why do you seek to deny it to other women?”



Holtorf said that as “a pro-life person,” he thinks “you should try to choose life every time. But there are exceptions. And there are times when you need abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure.”

“Is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf’s the father?” Clark asked.

[Demovictory9]

28. Now go ask Mark Robinson of NC if his wife "couldnt keep her skirt down" so he supported her abortion