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For Colorado House candidate Richard Holtorf, political events must take a backseat in favor of tending to over 1,000 sun-scorched livestock. The retired U.S. Army Colonel and third-generation rancher who has been riding horses to work since he was 5 years old and serves as a General Assembly member — is pressing pause on his campaign events in his challenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to represent the Centennial State in Washington D.C. “The water table has dropped and the pasture wells are not pumping water,” Holtorf’s campaign official Rhonda Brandt told The Independent. “Richard has…

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