GOP Senate candidate Joe O'Dea's business record in the spotlight

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate and construction company owner Joe O'Dea's record as an employer is drawing scrutiny to the campaign trail for dozens of worker safety and wage violations and multiple lawsuits.

— is leaning on his business background to draw contrast to Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who has served since his 2009 appointment.O'Dea's Denver-based company Concrete Express Inc.

"I've got literally hundreds of employees who have worked here and retired here … I'm just going to stand by that record," he added.Concrete Express initially stuck to its name, but expanded its scope to work on bridges, site development and water and recreation projects.estimates Concrete Express has received $400 million from federal, state and local government contracts.

Prominent projects include Coors Field's parking lots, reconstruction of the Chatfield Dam reservoir and a new project to reconnect the Colorado River around Windy Gap Dam — the latter of which is possible after Bennet helped secure the funding.O'Dea began construction work after high school and dropped out of college a semester early to start Concrete Express.

In turn, Dennis Dougherty, executive director of the Colorado AFL-CIO, which is backing Bennet, called O'Dea "a corporate wolf in worker's clothing."O'Dea's critics, who are attempting to bring attention to his leadership at Concrete Express, are spotlighting two lawsuits against the company.

 

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