O’Dea Takes Fight to Biden on Inflation; Calls Out “Desperate Politician” Ron Hanks on Abortion

Joe O’Dea is the construction CEO and conservative taking the fight to Biden and the Democrats on inflation, gas prices, energy independence, the debt, and Biden’s weak foreign policy.

O’Dea has been endorsed by many of the state’s leading conservatives – Bill Owens, Jon Caldara, Hank Brown, Donald Trump’s US Attorney, the Secretaries of Interior for George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, and Colorado’s largest organization of police officers, among dozens of other conservatives statewide.

O’Dea opposes new gun laws, supports term limits for Members of Congress, and would have voted to confirm every Supreme Court nominee of President George W. Bush and President Donald J. Trump. O’Dea has said he will oppose new tax increases in the Senate and signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

“I’m an American first, and I’m a conservative at the core,” Joe O’Dea said.

The conservative Colorado Springs Gazette endorsed saying “Joe O’Dea could become Michael Bennet’s worst nightmare.” [READ the endorsement here.]

Ron Hanks, O’Dea’s primary opponent, is best known for blowing up voting machines during his campaign announcement and attending the January 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol. Hanks has been distorting O’Dea’s position on abortion as his campaign falls farther and farther behind.

On abortion, O’Dea opposes late term abortion, opposes taxpayer funding for abortion, supports parental notification for all minors, but does not support a total ban. 

Adopted at birth by a Denver cop, O’Dea believes more should be done to make it easier for parents to adopt – “to make the same brave choice my mom did,” O’Dea says.

O’Dea opposes the Colorado Democrats’ late term abortion bill signed by Jared Polis earlier this year. O’Dea said it is “reckless”.

O’Dea said he was equally opposed to the late term abortion bill brought to the Senate by Chuck Schumer – a bill Michael Bennet voted for. That bill was defeated with the opposition of every Republican Senator and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, all who voted “no” on Schumer’s late term bill. O’Dea would have proudly stood with the blockade against Schumer’s reckless late term abortion bill.

“Ron Hanks is a desperate politician who is losing,” Quinn Evans, an O’Dea campaign aide said. “As a candidate for Congress in liberal California, Hanks supported abortion when a medical expert thought it was necessary, but now opposes abortion even to save a mother’s life. Ron Hanks opposed term limits when he ran for Congress in California, but now is campaigning on the need for term limits. Hanks supported forced unionization for government employees when he was trying to win votes in liberal California, but Colorado Springs Ron Hanks is suddenly anti-union. Ron Hanks is desperate and losing, and he is dishonest about Joe O’Dea’s position.”

If legislation were brought to the Senate floor, O’Dea said he would support a bill if it does all of the following: ends late term abortion nationally (except for medical emergencies), requires parental notice for minors nationally, prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion at the federal and state levels, and leaves the decision to the mother and doctor in cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother and also early in pregnancy.

O’Dea says he will push to make adoption easier and expand tax credits for parents who do.

“I don’t support a total ban, but any bill brought before the Senate would need nationwide limits on late term abortion, prohibitions on taxpayer funding, and protections for parents,” O’Dea said. “Those are ‘must haves’”.

“I am who I am – I don’t support a total ban,” O’Dea said. “But no one will work harder than I will on the adoption issue. I was adopted. This is personal to me. I will be a voice for balance.”

“But I have to tell you: I’m focused on inflation, $4 gas, and the mess that Biden is making of America, not social issues,” Joe O’Dea says. “I’m going to chase Michael Bennet all across Colorado making him pay the political price for all the policies that he supported that have been fuel on the fire of inflation.

“That’s how we beat Biden and the Democrats in Colorado, not social issues and certainly not blowing up voting machines,” O’Dea concluded.