Republican State Senator Caves to Pressure, Apologizes for Clueless Racial Comments

Why does this out-of-touch white man represent a 54 percent majority Latino district in Eastern Washington? WA.GOV
On Monday, I wrote about state Senator Jim Honeyford's controversial remarks during a committee hearing last week: "The poor are more likely to commit crimes, and, uh, colored most likely to be poor," he said, expressing skepticism about a common sense proposal to assess the racial impacts of government policies. Then on Tuesday, speaking to a local TV station, Hon