"On February 17, 1999, while at a meeting of the Montana Implement Dealers Association in Billings, Montana, Burns referred to Arabs as "ragheads."

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“In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, "How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?" he replied, " a hell of a challenge." When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: "I don't know. I never gave it much thought.”

“In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.”

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