New Mexico Democrat caught in n-word scandal: Gabe Vasquez’ past includes a racist comment to his colleague, marijuana citations and illegal driving

New Mexico Rep. Gabe Vasquez’s wild childhood has been exposed after newly unearthed police reports show he used racial slurs to harass former colleagues after being fired from a company.

In July 2004, Vasquez, who was a student at the time, called a human resources representative at a call center in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Vasquez asked the center to speak to “Chris,” and when the employee asked which Chris he was referring to, Vasquez responded, “Chris, the niece.”

The employee hung up, but Vasquez called again. The second time he asked to speak to “Chris, the black man,” laughed and hung up.

The employee traced the number to Vasquez, who was “fired for falsifying data.”

The employee called back and left a message for Vasquez informing him that she planned to report him to the police.

Vasquez’s name was taken from reports obtained by DailyMail.com, but a custodian confirmed to the Free beaconwho first reported the news that Vasquez was the caller.

Vasquez told DailyMail.com in a statement: ‘I have not used this type of language and never would, this attack is categorically false. This is another example of desperate Republicans lying about my character instead of focusing on delivering results for New Mexico.”

“It is no coincidence that these lies are appearing immediately after the video came to light of Yvette Herrell wanting to ban all abortion in New Mexico, even in cases of rape and incest.”

That wasn’t the only encounter Vasquez had with police during his time at New Mexico State University, where he attended from 2002 to 2008.

In 2005, he was issued two criminal summonses by police for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

In one case, officers arrived at Vasquez’s home for a complaint of loud music and found him witnessing him cutting up marijuana and rolling it into a blunt. In another, officers on a bicycle patrol found Vasquez and his underage friends drunk and smelling of marijuana in a car. Vasquez handed marijuana to the officers.

According to all police records, the cases have been ‘suspended’ and there is no indication that any further action has been taken against Vasquez.

Vasquez with his relatives outside his grandparents’ house in 2022

Vasquez, pictured with his mother, posted bond two months ago after failing to appear in court in 2002

Just two months ago, police issued an arrest warrant for Vasquez for failing to appear in court at age 18 after being charged in El Paso, Texas with driving without a license and driving without insurance.

Police issued an arrest warrant for him in April 2008 after he failed to appear in court in 2002. Texas police executed that warrant on March 19 and Vasquez posted a $900 cash bond and pleaded no contest, according to the Free Beacon.

Twice, police were involved in domestic incidents when Vasquez and his ex-girlfriend argued. In 2004, Vasquez called the police saying that the ex, whom he had broken up with the day before, was refusing to leave his apartment because they were arguing and that he “didn’t want to do something stupid and end up going to jail.”

The girlfriend is not mentioned in the report.

In a 2007 “possible domestic” incident, an officer arrived at a home where Vasquez and a handful of other people were and Vasquez said he and his girlfriend got into an argument because he asked her “not to drink so much because she had just changed ‘. 21 and she gets a little wild when she drinks.”

Vasquez said the girlfriend “had a few too many” and “started getting a little wild and dancing around in front of his friends” and he asked her to stop. Then they got into an argument and the girlfriend had a friend pick her up. It is not clear whether that was the same friend in the 2004 incident.

Vasquez was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He was elected to Congress in 2022 when he defeated incumbent Republican Yvette Herrell.