Joe O’Dea meet and greet

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.

The Main Election is quick approaching and Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Republican Joe O’Dea is on the marketing campaign path having already stopped at 24 counties in 9 days, and now Mesa County is on the checklist. “I’m working one marketing campaign, and it’s directed at Michael Bennet,” stated O’Dea. “I’m not trying backwards, I’m trying forwards.”

O’Dea says he’s not centered on the 2020 election and the conspiracies being pushed by different candidates within the GOP, and if elected he says his first precedence is to combat inflation with vitality independence provided by fossil fuels. “I’d wish to deal with these permits, and getting drilling turned again on right here in Colorado so we are able to catch up, and get a provide that’ll cut back the price of fuel,” stated O’Dea.

The proprietor of CBI Constructors, and a number of occasion facilities in Denver, is in opposition to extreme spending and rules that create larger prices for enterprise house owners getting transferred to the shopper, however what about water consumption? O’Dea says, “I feel Colorado’s water must be managed by Colorado, and never the federal authorities. So, I’d keep out of that, however what I’d do is encourage the allow course of for water storage. I feel it’s important right here in these drought years that we’re capable of maintain on to as a lot water as we are able to.”

Lastly, this carpenter that began his enterprise out of his basement in 1983 desires to deal with one of many greatest points going through our nation proper now: the protection of our kids. “We have to put guards again in our faculties,” stated O’Dea. “I imply, it’s so simple as that. I do know that Denver public faculties doesn’t have any proper now. I wish to see us arm these guards, and postpone obligation police within the faculties. That’s what we have to do.”

Keep tuned as KREX follows all candidates in Colorado working on this yr’s Main.