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October 28, 2022 09:41 AM UTC

O'Dea to Campaign with Chris Christie

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  • by: Erik Maulbetsch
(Time for some traffic problems — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
A lovely bridge built by Joe O’Dea’s company and paid for with your tax dollars.

Colorado U.S. Senate hopeful Joe O’Dea is holding a campaign event this Saturday in Denver with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

O’Dea lists transportation infrastructure as a priority issue and his leadership experience is running a company that builds roads and bridges. This makes Christie is an ironic choice considering he infamously closed lanes on a New Jersey bridge in order to cause a traffic jam for political retribution, a scandal that essentially destroyed his political career.

The announcement of the Christie event comes just days after his endorsement by Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who is also campaigning on behalf of several election fraud conspiracist candidates this year. Christie, was infamously a Trump sycophant during the 2016 campaign before turning on him later in his presidency.

Today he is one of the few Republicans to blame Trump for the Jan. 6 insurrection. That position makes Christie quite a contrast from the far-right Desantis and from O’Dea himself, who said Trump does not deserve blame for the deadly riot and who has acknowledged that while he would prefer Desantis, he will vote for Trump if the former president is the 2024 Republican nominee.

Christie also recently called out Desantis over his hypocritical request for federal disaster relief following Hurricane Ian’s devastation of Florida’s Gulf coast. Christie noted Desantis’ 2013 vote against a similar relief package for victims of Hurricane Sandy which wreaked havoc on New Jersey nearly a decade ago. At the time Christie also levied the same attack against all four Republican members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation. Christie called Cory Gardner and Mike Coffman (both of whom have endorsed O’Dea) as well as Scott Tipton and Doug Lamborn, all hypocrites for requesting federal flood aid following their votes against Sandy relief.

Christie’s previous efforts to aid Colorado Republicans haven’t been without controversy. In 2014 while stumping for gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, Christie attacked the state’s quality of life over legal marijuana.

One of many brutal “Bridgegate” headlines

The O’Dea campaign did not respond to an email inquiry asking if as a candidate who lists transportation infrastructure as a top priority has any concerns sharing a stage with a politician best-known for causing a days-long traffic jam. This article will be updated with any response received.

The public event with O’Dea is also notable given that Christie’s professional focus isn’t on Senate races. He currently co-chairs the Republican Governor Association’s Victory 2022 entity, which raises money for GOP gubernatorial candidates. The Ganahl campaign doesn’t list any events with Christie on its website.

The Ganahl campaign did not immediately return an email asking if it has any unlisted or private events with Christie. This article will be updated with any response received.

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9 thoughts on “O’Dea to Campaign with Chris Christie

  1. ROFL

    Meet the man himself and Governor Christie, . . .”

    ” . . . be there before the cheeseburgers run out.”

     

    “Saddle up, honey, no choking down uncooked fish today!!!”

  2. lol

    It's so cute when assclowns who run companies that get sizeable portions of their income from taxpayers portray themselves as mighty Galtian ubermenchen successfully navigating the stormy seas of the free market.

  3. I respect Christe. And he’s probably the one person the Republicans can nominate for President who would likely be a slam dunk to win. However, the MAGA zealots in the GOP would never allow him to get the nomination.

    And after a ton of investigation on the traffic problem imposed by some of his staff, they never found anything showing he was aware of what they did.

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