Denver, CO — In case you missed it, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce called on U.S. Senator Michael Bennet to fight to keep Space Command HQ in Colorado making their support for the “Build Back Tax” inflation reconciliation bill contingent on keeping Space Command in Colorado Springs. Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized the blatant partisan games underlying the effort to move Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama.
Political outsider, business leader, and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Joe O’Dea issued the following statement:
“Biden's new spending bill sells out American manufacturing. JJ Ament is right - it sells out Colorado, too,” said Joe O’Dea. “Any Senator worth their salt would tell Biden to pound sand until the Space Command HQ stays in Colorado Springs. But our Senator is an empty suit. He just goes along.”
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Denver Business Journal: "And just as other senators — notably Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia — have used their swing-vote status to get major concessions and changes to the bill, Colorado’s delegation should make their support contingent on securing a multibillion-dollar economic impact for the state, Ament said. In the process, it would be eliminating the unneeded cost to the federal government of moving a headquarters whose structure already is in place here, he noted."
Denver Gazette: Ament, in an email to the Denver Gazette after the event, stated: "Understand complexity of reconciliation, and if a billion-dollars-plus isn’t big enough to address this issue now, then we will certainly support our Senators using their unique positions in an equally divided Senate to advance this important Colorado and national security interest at their next legislative opportunity."
Learn more about O’Dea’s campaign here.
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