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Jamie Radtke |
George Allen |
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| Experience |
- Co-founder of VA Tea Party Federation
- Former president of Richmond Tea Party
- Co-founder, Restore the Founders’ Vision
- Served Sen. Helms, Foreign Rel. Comm.
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- Career politician
- 30-years in the establishment
- Owner of a Washington lobbying firm
- Makes weekly NFL picks on DC radio station
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| National Debt |
- Opposed all debt ceiling increases during Allen and Webb Senate terms
- Favors spending cuts to balance budget
- Wants to cap spending as a percentage of GDP
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- Voted FOR 4 debt ceiling increases as senator, increasing federal debt limit 50% in just 6 years
- Voiced support for Obama’s debt ceiling increase
- Voted to add $3.1 trillion in new debt, which was over a billion dollars for each day he was in office(3/21/06)
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| Spending |
- Opposes pork spending earmarks
- Opposed ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ earmark
- Opposed ‘Iowa Tropical Rain Forest’ $
- Thinks Allen should be ashamed of his earmarks, rather than boast about them
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- Voted for 40,000 Senate earmarks ($90 Billion)
- Voted for, against, and for ‘Bridge to Nowhere’
- Voted for ‘Iowa Tropical Rain Forest’ earmark
- Told Richmond Times Dispatch, “Every single earmark I’ve gotten, I’m proud of.” (3/21/06)
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| Education |
- Believes education is state/local issue
- Will vote to eliminate Federal DOE
- Opposed Ted Kennedy’s education bill
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- Voted for expanded federal role in education
- Voted for massive spending increases for DOE
- Backed Ted Kennedy’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ bill
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| Entitlements |
- Opposed Medicare Part D entitlement
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- Voted FOR Medicare Part D entitlement in Senate
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| Subsidies |
- Opposes crony capitalism
- Believes in free market principles
- Rejects government-backed businesses
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- Backed ethanol subsidies, driving up gas prices
- Supported taxpayer funding for sugar farmers
- Backed farm bill that pays farmers NOT to farm
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| U.N. Agenda 21 |
- Opposes at every level of government
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- Sponsored “national heritage area” legislation
- Human Events: a “property rights betrayal.”
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| Right to Life |
- Opposes abortion (no exceptions)
- Opposes abortifacient drugs like MAP
- Opposes any research on human embryos
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- Supports abortion prior to fetal viability
- Invested $250k in Morning After Pill (MAP) maker
- Supports some research on human embryos
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| Hate Crimes |
- Opposes all hate crimes legislation because it violates Constitution’s “Equal Protection” clause
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- Signed ‘hate crimes’ legislation as governor
- Voted to add ‘sexual orientation’ to federal ‘hate crimes’ categories as senator in 2004
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| 2nd Amendment |
- Opposes limits on law-abiding citizens
- Holds a concealed handgun permit
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- Voiced support for Clinton-Feinstein ban in 2000
- Waffled on one-gun-a-month rationing scheme
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| Politics |
- Fought to oust RINO’s as Political Director for ‘Virginia Conservative Action PAC’
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- Supported Arlen Specter against conservative Pat Toomey in GOP nomination contest in 2004
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