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O'Donnell supporters were heartened by the late August primary victory in Alaska of little-known, Tea Party-backed insurgent [[Joe Miller (Alaska politician)|Joe Miller]] over incumbent Republican Senator [[Lisa Murkowski]].<ref name="wsj083010"/> The Tea Party Express then said it might spend as much as $600,000 backing O'Donnell.<ref name="wsj083010"/> The added "buzz" about her campaign brought national attention<ref name="lat091210"/><ref name="wsj083010"/> but also additional scrutiny on her record, including a contentious interview on [[WGMD]] radio.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.wgmd.com/?p=9496 | title=Dan Gaffney Audio: Christine O’Donnell for Senate Interview | publisher=[[WGMD]] | date=2010-09-02 | accessdate=2010-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41716.html | title=Christine O'Donnell plays defense on radio | author=Catanese, Dan | newspaper=[[Politico (newspaper)|Politico]] | date=2010-09-02 | accessdate=2010-09-02}}</ref> With days to go before the primary, O'Donnell was further bolstered by an endorsement from [[Sarah Palin]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/09/09/palin-endorses-o-donnell-in-delaware.aspx | title=Palin Endorses O'Donnell in Delaware | author=Weigel, David | magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date=2010-09-09 | accessdate=2010-09-11}}</ref> She was then endorsed by Senator [[Jim DeMint]], while establishment Republicans continued to worry that she would be less electable than Castle.<ref name="DeMint Endorsement">{{Cite news| url=http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/de_sen_odonnell.php | title=DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle | author=Jacobs, Jeremy P. | author2= Kraushaar, Josh | publisher=[[Hotline On Call]] | date=2010-09-15 | accessdate=2010-09-15}}</ref> |
O'Donnell supporters were heartened by the late August primary victory in Alaska of little-known, Tea Party-backed insurgent [[Joe Miller (Alaska politician)|Joe Miller]] over incumbent Republican Senator [[Lisa Murkowski]].<ref name="wsj083010"/> The Tea Party Express then said it might spend as much as $600,000 backing O'Donnell.<ref name="wsj083010"/> The added "buzz" about her campaign brought national attention<ref name="lat091210"/><ref name="wsj083010"/> but also additional scrutiny on her record, including a contentious interview on [[WGMD]] radio.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.wgmd.com/?p=9496 | title=Dan Gaffney Audio: Christine O’Donnell for Senate Interview | publisher=[[WGMD]] | date=2010-09-02 | accessdate=2010-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41716.html | title=Christine O'Donnell plays defense on radio | author=Catanese, Dan | newspaper=[[Politico (newspaper)|Politico]] | date=2010-09-02 | accessdate=2010-09-02}}</ref> With days to go before the primary, O'Donnell was further bolstered by an endorsement from [[Sarah Palin]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/09/09/palin-endorses-o-donnell-in-delaware.aspx | title=Palin Endorses O'Donnell in Delaware | author=Weigel, David | magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date=2010-09-09 | accessdate=2010-09-11}}</ref> She was then endorsed by Senator [[Jim DeMint]], while establishment Republicans continued to worry that she would be less electable than Castle.<ref name="DeMint Endorsement">{{Cite news| url=http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/de_sen_odonnell.php | title=DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle | author=Jacobs, Jeremy P. | author2= Kraushaar, Josh | publisher=[[Hotline On Call]] | date=2010-09-15 | accessdate=2010-09-15}}</ref> |
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The O'Donnell campaign generated some controversy in early September when a political consulting firm hired by O'Donnell released a Web video insinuating that her opponent, Mike Castle, was having a |
The O'Donnell campaign generated some controversy in early September when a political consulting firm hired by O'Donnell released a Web video insinuating that her opponent, Mike Castle, was having a gay affair.<ref>http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/ODonnell_backer_makes_sex_charge_in_Delaware_race.html</ref> O'Donnell quickly distanced herself from the claims, pointing out that the firm in question was no longer working for her campaign, though the manner in which she denied involvement in the rumor led some to suspect that she was intentionally engaging in a [[whisper campaign]] by deliberately repeating the rumor while denying it.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#39108270</ref> O'Donnell later appeared on [[Mark Levin|Mark Levin's]] radio show, where she blasted Castle's "unmanly tactics" during the campaign, saying, "this is not a bake-off, put your man-pants on."<ref>http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/odonnell-blasts-castles-un-manly-tactics-audio.php</ref> |
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She won the September 14, 2010, primary election by six percentage points over Castle.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/14/odonnell-wins-in-delaware/ | title=O'Donnell wins in Delaware | accessdate=2010-09-14}}</ref> The next morning, [[Public Policy Polling]] released a [[Twitter|tweet]] indicating that their polling found that primary voters who voted for Mike Castle supported Coons, the Democratic opponent, over O'Donnell 44 percent to 28 percent in a general election.<ref>http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/24529455223</ref> |
She won the September 14, 2010, primary election by six percentage points over Castle.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/14/odonnell-wins-in-delaware/ | title=O'Donnell wins in Delaware | accessdate=2010-09-14}}</ref> The next morning, [[Public Policy Polling]] released a [[Twitter|tweet]] indicating that their polling found that primary voters who voted for Mike Castle supported Coons, the Democratic opponent, over O'Donnell 44 percent to 28 percent in a general election.<ref>http://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/24529455223</ref> |
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Despite winning the Republican primary, O'Donnell continues to face stark criticism from the leaders in the local, state, and national [[GOP]]. Kristen Murray, O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, starred in a GOP-funded [[robocall]] in which she accused O'Donnell of misusing campaign funds.<ref |
Despite winning the Republican primary, O'Donnell continues to face stark criticism from the leaders in the local, state, and national [[GOP]]. Kristen Murray, O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, starred in a GOP-funded [[robocall]] in which she accused O'Donnell of misusing campaign funds.<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/odonnell-08-campaign-manager-odonnell-not-concerned-about-conservative-causes-just-wanted-make</ref> Tom Ross, Delaware's state Republican Party chairman, has unabashedly criticized O'Donnell, saying "She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware. She could not be elected dog catcher."<ref name="MSNBC Ross">{{Cite news| url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39131646/ns/politics-decision_2010/ | title=GOP tries to take out tea party-backed candidate | publisher= [[MSNBC]] | author=Elliott, Philip | date=2010-09-12 | accessdate=2010-09-15}}</ref> The [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] similarly released a statement almost immediately following O'Donnell's primary win, stating that they would not spend money to support her or her campaign.<ref name="Rachel Maddow1"/><ref name="WSJ NRSC">{{Cite news| url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703376504575491290566809902.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories | title=Tea Party Claims Big Win | author=Wallsten, Peter & King Jr., Neil | publisher= [[The Wall Street Journal]] | accessdate=2010-09-15}}</ref> However, Texas Senator [[John Cornyn]], chairman of the NRSC, released a statement later stating he did not know where the release from within his organization originated. He then offered the maximum $42,000 donation to her campaign; Cornyn acknowledged, however, that he was not sure if she could win.<ref name="FoxNews Trish Turner">{{Cite news| url=http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/15/cornyn-nrsc-aides-dont-speak-me-odonnell-gop-nominee-not-sure-she-can-win | title=Cornyn: NRSC Aides Don't Speak For Me - O'Donnell is GOP Nominee; Not Sure She Can Win | publisher= [[FoxNews]] | author=Turner, Trish | date=2010-09-15 | accessdate=2010-09-15}}</ref> |
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Christine O'Donnell | |
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 O'Donnell in 2006 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 27, 1969 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| Occupation | political commentator, marketing consultant |
| Website | christine2010.com/ |
Christine O'Donnell (born August 27, 1969) is an American marketing consultant and political commentator. She is the Republican Party nominee in Delaware's 2010 United States Senate special election. She previously ran in the primary in the US Senate election in Delaware in 2006 and was the party's nominee for the 2008 US Senate election, losing to Joe Biden.
Early life, education and career
O'Donnell was born to a mother of Italian-American descent and a father of Irish-American descent. One of six children (five of them girls), she remembers "sharing a bedroom with my four sisters" and that "my father worked three jobs to take care of our large family."[1]
O'Donnell attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she completed or nearly completed the work for a B.A. in English and Communications.[2][3][4] She attended the commencement ceremony in 1993 but did not receive a degree, due to outstanding unpaid expenses[4] and her failure to complete a general elective course until seventeen years later in the summer of 2010.[5] In 1994, Fairleigh Dickinson University sued her for $4,823 in unpaid expenses, according to court documents. The university won a judgment in New Jersey for the entire amount, and the judgment was paid in 2003. [3][4][6][7] After O'Donnell completed a final general electives course in the summer of 2010,[3] Fairleigh Dickinson awarded her a bachelor's degree in English literature on September 1, 2010.[3][4]
Following college, she lived first in California and then for several years in Washington, D.C.[7] She worked in conservative issue advocacy and for the Republican National Committee[8] for several years in Washington. She founded and was the president of the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT) in 1996, which lobbied the U.S. Congress on moral issues[7] and which focused on advocating chastity and other Christian values in the college-age generation.[9] In 1996 she appeared on MTV with other SALT members to discuss the group's opposition to masturbation, an appearance that would come up during the 2010 campaign.[10]
O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy.[11] She was granted a Lincoln Fellowship from the Claremont Institute in 2002.[4][12]
In 2003, O'Donnell moved to Delaware to work for the conservative publisher Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) in Hockessin, and bought a house in Wilmington.[7][13] She registered a gender discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, after which she was terminated by ISI in 2004.[7] She then sued the institute for $6.9 million for wrongful termination in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 2005, stating that she had endured mental anguish due to being demoted and fired by ISI due to what she saw as their conservative philosophy that women must be subordinate to men.[7][14] ISI defended its action by accusing her of having conducted a for-profit public-relations business while on their time.[7] O'Donnell dropped the suit in 2008, stating she lacked the funds to continue.[7][13][15]
In 2008, she was unable to pay the mortgage for her Wilmington house and the mortgage company gained a judgment against her for $90,000; the house was due to be sold at a sheriff's auction in August 2008 when she sold it the month prior to her campaign's lawyer.[7] The IRS has filed a lien and said that O’Donnell owes $11,000 in back taxes, but O’Donnell says that it was a mistake and a “computer error.”[16] O'Donnell noted that the IRS agent handling the matter claimed the agency's action has been inappropriate.[7] She listed herself as self-employed and said she was doing "odd jobs" to make ends meet.[7]
O'Donnell has worked as a marketing consultant;[13] She has provided political commentary on numerous television programs, such as Politically Incorrect,[7] The O'Reilly Factor,[17] The Live Desk,[18] and Glenn Beck.[19] She is a member of the Roman Catholic Church [2] and has been supportive of the Right to Life and made negative comments regarding pornography and premarital sex.[13][15]
Political positions
Abortion
O’Donnell opposes abortion including in cases of rape and incest.[20] She previously has been a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian group that opposes abortion. [21]
Fiscal Responsibility
O'Donnell emphasized fiscal integrity in her campaign kickoff saying, "Voting to spend money we don't have has become the appealing option for too many politicians. The men and women of America know this is not sustainable."[22][23]
Health care
O'Donnell is opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress in 2010, and has supported an effort to legislatively remove federal funding from the law and to repeal and replace it.[24]
Political campaigns
2006
O'Donnell ran for the Republican nomination in the 2006 United States Senate election in Delaware, finishing third[25] in the Republican primary, with 17 percent of the vote, behind winner Jan C. Ting and second-place finisher Michael D. Protack.[26] She then ran as a write-in candidate in the general election against Ting and incumbent Democrat Thomas R. Carper, finishing with 4 percent of the vote as Carper won re-election.[8]
2008
She was uncontested in the Republican primary for the 2008 Senate race[27] after beating businessman Tim Smith at the state party convention with more than 60 percent of the vote.[15] Her general election opponent was Senator Joe Biden, who was also running for vice president with Barack Obama on the Obama-Biden ticket.[8] O'Donnell questioned Biden's dual campaigns, claiming that serving his constituents was not important to him and criticizing his unwillingness to participate in debates and candidate forums.[8][28][29] Opinion polling during the race showed that O'Donnell was behind by a two-to-one margin. In the general election on November 4, 2008, Biden defeated O'Donnell by 65 percent to 35 percent.[30] He had outspent her by $7,582,189 to $116,050. [31] Biden's percentage of the vote was the largest of any of his senatorial campaigns, but O'Donnell was close to the 37 percent of the vote that the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket gained in Delaware's presidential voting that year.[30]
Because of financial difficulties, she moved to a Delaware townhouse, where she pays half the rent with campaign contributions because it doubles as her campaign headquarters for her 2010 senate run.[7] Her 2008 campaign ended with $23,000 in debt, and between 2007 and 2009 the Federal Election Commission cited her eight times for failing to supply contributions reports on time.[7] As of 2010, she owes payments to staffers, consultants, and volunteers from the 2008 campaign.[7][32]
2010
Following the 2008 election, Biden resigned the seat to become vice president, and Ted Kaufman was appointed to replace him. Kaufman indicated he would not run in the 2010 Senate special election to elect a replacement to serve out the full term. In February 2009, O'Donnell indicated that she would be running in that special election, and expressed concern that the Obama stimulus package showed that the United States was headed in the direction of socialism.[33] She began fund-raising appeals.[34] In October 2009, she reiterated that she was running despite the entrance into the race of Republican Congressman and former Governor Mike Castle.[35] A Rasmussen Reports poll taken at the time portrayed what was likely to be a highly competitive race: O'Donnell only trailed possible Democratic nominee Beau Biden by a single-digit margin while Castle was ahead of Biden by a single-digit margin.[36] In January 2010, Biden indicated he would not run, and Castle became the favorite to take the seat.[37] On March 10, 2010, O'Donnell officially announced her candidacy before a small group of supporters at University of Delaware – Wilmington.[38][39] In her remarks, O'Donnell criticized excessive government spending and said that Castle was the most liberal Republican in the House and that the Tea Party movement and grassroots anti-incumbent trends would devolve in her favor.[38][39]
When a report from The News Journal in March 2010 detailed her fiscal difficulties, she attributed the problems to misunderstandings and errors and said, "I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic."[7][40][41] Nevertheless, her financial problems became a focal point of establishment Republican attacks against her.[42]
As of early July 2010, she had raised more than $55,000 for her bid.[citation needed] In addition, she noted to a reporter in Philadelphia that she had generated $30,000 in online contributions roughly 30 hours after her appearance on conservative talk radio.[citation needed] A July 2010 Rasmussen Reports poll showed O'Donnell running ahead of Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons by a margin of 41 to 39 percent in a hypothetical matchup,[43] while a similar poll in August had her trailing Coons 46 to 36 percent.[44] During this time she picked up the endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List, the Tea Party Express, which called her a “strong voice for conservative constitutionalist principles,”[45] the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America,[citation needed] and the Family Research Council.[46]
O'Donnell supporters were heartened by the late August primary victory in Alaska of little-known, Tea Party-backed insurgent Joe Miller over incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.[42] The Tea Party Express then said it might spend as much as $600,000 backing O'Donnell.[42] The added "buzz" about her campaign brought national attention[11][42] but also additional scrutiny on her record, including a contentious interview on WGMD radio.[47][48] With days to go before the primary, O'Donnell was further bolstered by an endorsement from Sarah Palin.[49] She was then endorsed by Senator Jim DeMint, while establishment Republicans continued to worry that she would be less electable than Castle.[50]
The O'Donnell campaign generated some controversy in early September when a political consulting firm hired by O'Donnell released a Web video insinuating that her opponent, Mike Castle, was having a gay affair.[51] O'Donnell quickly distanced herself from the claims, pointing out that the firm in question was no longer working for her campaign, though the manner in which she denied involvement in the rumor led some to suspect that she was intentionally engaging in a whisper campaign by deliberately repeating the rumor while denying it.[52] O'Donnell later appeared on Mark Levin's radio show, where she blasted Castle's "unmanly tactics" during the campaign, saying, "this is not a bake-off, put your man-pants on."[53]
She won the September 14, 2010, primary election by six percentage points over Castle.[54] The next morning, Public Policy Polling released a tweet indicating that their polling found that primary voters who voted for Mike Castle supported Coons, the Democratic opponent, over O'Donnell 44 percent to 28 percent in a general election.[55]
Despite winning the Republican primary, O'Donnell continues to face stark criticism from the leaders in the local, state, and national GOP. Kristen Murray, O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, starred in a GOP-funded robocall in which she accused O'Donnell of misusing campaign funds.[56] Tom Ross, Delaware's state Republican Party chairman, has unabashedly criticized O'Donnell, saying "She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware. She could not be elected dog catcher."[57] The National Republican Senatorial Committee similarly released a statement almost immediately following O'Donnell's primary win, stating that they would not spend money to support her or her campaign.[58][59] However, Texas Senator John Cornyn, chairman of the NRSC, released a statement later stating he did not know where the release from within his organization originated. He then offered the maximum $42,000 donation to her campaign; Cornyn acknowledged, however, that he was not sure if she could win.[60]
Electoral history
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