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April 28, 2022 12:40 PM UTC

GOP Sen. Candidate Joe O’Dea Donated to Michael Bennet in 2010

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by: Sean Price

(You’ve come a long way, Joe O’Dea — Promoted by Colorado Pols)

by Sean Price, Colorado Times Recorder

According to FEC contribution filings, Denver businessman and Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea donated to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) during his 2010 campaign. O’Dea is trying to unseat Bennet this November and has been critical of the incumbent Democrat.

O’Dea’s contributions to Bennet have been previously reported by Ernest Luning of Colorado Politics and Jesse Aaron Paul of the Colorado Sun.

The receipt for O’Dea’s donation to Bennet’s campaign.

O’Dea also donated to U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) in 2009, giving $500 to both Perlmutter’s campaign and Bennet’s campaign. Since then, O’Dea has supported Republicans at the federal level with donations to the Republican National Committee in 2018 and 2021 and former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) in 2019 and 2020.

According to reports from Colorado’s Secretary of State TRACER database, O’Dea donated to multiple Colorado politicians who identify as part of the Democratic Party at the state level. This includes donations to U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) — who unseated Gardner in 2020 — during Hickenlooper’s campaign for Governor of Colorado.

Signs from an O’Dea campaign event earlier this month.

Earlier this month, O’Dea called Bennet “soft” during an interview with the conservative Ruthless Podcast.

“We’re going to be running one campaign against soft Senator Michael Bennet, and we’re going to give him a retirement plan here in November,” O’Dea said on the show.

In March, O’Dea criticized Bennet’s leadership in an interview with Jimmy Sengenberger on his 710 KNUS radio show. O’Dea called attention to how Bennet was appointed in 2009 to the U.S. Senate.

“[Bennet’s] accidental, you know,” O’Dea said. “He got appointed.”

Bennet won in 2010 and 2016.

O’Dea is one of two Republicans on the June 28 primary ballot for U.S. Senate.

O’Dea did not respond to a request for comment. This story will be updated with a comment if one is provided.

3 thoughts on “GOP Sen. Candidate Joe O’Dea Donated to Michael Bennet in 2010”

MichaelBowman says:

April 28, 2022 at 1:02 pm

<Fluffy frantically dialing O’Dea to instruct him not to take the bait>

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Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS says:

April 28, 2022 at 1:42 pm

Stay the course, senator! Some day they will thank you! And here is $500 to show my support!

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JohnInDenver says:

April 28, 2022 at 3:56 pm

Well, consider his options … In January 2010, Bennet was running against former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff in the Democratic primary,

So, the pragmatic businessperson O’Dea goes with the incumbent, a not-too-scary M. Bennet.

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