O’Dea Stumbles in Desperate Attempt to Catch Up to Leading Far-right Candidate Ron Hanks
Roll Call: GOP Senate candidate touts military support with image of Russian jets
Colorado Times Recorder: Senate Candidate O’Dea Opposes CO Law Protecting the Right to an Abortion
First-time GOP Senate candidate Joe O’Dea is stumbling through the primary trying to keep up with far-right frontrunner Ron Hanks.
O’Dea’s incompetence was on full display when he tried to compare his support of the military with Air Force veteran Ron Hanks. However, Roll Call reported that his TV ad used what military experts confirmed to be Russian jets. O’Dea’s managed to insult Colorado veterans and military families in one fell swoop.
O’Dea stumbled again at a campaign meet and greet where he confirmed that he opposes a recent Colorado law that protects a woman’s right to an abortion. O’Dea’s opposition to protecting women’s healthcare, including the right to an abortion, is more evidence that this primary will be a race to the right that leaves the eventual nominee battered and out of step with Colorado voters.
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Roll Call: GOP Senate candidate touts military support with image of Russian jets
Colorado Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea promises to “support the police and military,” in a television ad that featured footage of a half-dozen planes flying in formation against a backdrop of fluffy, white clouds.
Only, those weren’t American planes. Three experts on military aviation, after viewing the ad, concluded independently that the aircraft used in the ad by a Republican vying to challenge Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet are a mix of Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets — possibly flying in a Russian military parade.
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“Claiming to support our troops over footage of Russian fighter jets is a slap in the face to Colorado veterans, service members, and military families — not to mention the height of political negligence,” Yoo said.
Read more in Roll Call.
Colorado Times Recorder: Senate Candidate O’Dea Opposes CO Law Protecting the Right to an Abortion
Appearing at a campaign stop at the Copper Rail Bar and Grill in Brighton on Wednesday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, who will be competing against election conspiracist and insurrectionist Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) in the June 28 primary, denounced Colorado’s newly passed law that guarantees the right to an abortion in state statute.
“Well, actually, if [Roe v. Wade] gets overturned, it’s going to push it to the states,” said O’Dea in response to a question about what kind of legislation he would support around abortion. “And this bill [Reproductive Health Equity Act] that just came through at our gold dome, that Polis signed a couple of weeks ago, to me, it’s reckless, it approves third-term abortions, and I’m not in favor of that. So it’s going to be a local-level issue.”
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“Joe O’Dea’s opposition to the Reproductive Health Equity Act means he does not agree with the vast majority of Coloradans on abortion access and reproductive rights, at a time when the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and take those rights away. O’Dea’s opposition to RHEA and abortion rights are disqualifying for anyone running for elected office in Colorado.”
Read more in the Colorado Times Recorder.