DENVER — Construction CEO Joe O'Dea's U.S. Senate campaign on Wednesday exposed Ron Hanks' political career marked by flip-flops, chronic absence, and truly bizarre positions.
The Colorado Springs Gazette first reported that Hanks missed 48% of the votes in the House Energy Committee in Colorado, the committee that is ground zero for Jared Polis and the Democratic Party's war against oil and gas.
"Ron Hanks is lazy, there is no two ways around it. When you are a no-show for 50% of the time on the energy committee, literally in the midst of an energy crisis, there is no other explanation," said Representative Colin Larson. "And it's infuriating for all the rest of us — we are down here trying to flip Democrat votes."
In addition to missing nearly half the votes on the energy committee, he also voted against Senate Bill 21-017, a bill that would toughen penalties against teachers who seduce 18 year old students. The bill made it a crime for teachers to violate their position of trust by engaging in a sexual relationship with a student, but Ron Hanks voted against all of his colleagues in casting the lone Republican “no” vote.
"Hanks' voting record is full of headscratchers that are so outrageous they are hard to believe, like the time he was the only 'no' vote against a bill that would close a loophole in the law that allowed teachers who seduced an 18 year old student to evade criminal prosecution," added Larson.
And as was first reported by Colorado Politics, Hanks ran under the name Loren Hanks while running for Congress in California and took positions on a range of issues different then the hardline positions he takes today. Today in Colorado, Hanks opposes abortion even to save a mother's life, but supported abortion in many cases when he was running in California. In California, candidate Hanks said he was opposed to a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress, and said in a questionnaire that he favored gun control." After Hanks lost his congressional race in California, he's now running under a different name and has changed his positions on everything from abortion to unions to term limits," said Larson. "In the Colorado legislature, the guy missed more floor votes than anyone else."
Far-left groups continue to pump money into TV buys "attacking" Ron Hanks for being a conservative to conservative television audiences and pushing false statements and phony narratives about the leading Senate candidate, construction CEO Joe O’Dea.
Learn more about Ron Hanks' real record at www.TheRealRonHanks.com
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