Jamie Radtke for Senate

Radtke Shines in GOP Senate Debate, Focuses on Federal Debt “If we don’t deal with spending, nothing else matters.” Roanoke, Va. – Former Richmond Tea Party President and Republican candidate for the United States Senate Jamie Radtke set the agenda for the GOP’s primary contest today when she declared in the first of three debates, [...]

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the news: The federal debt soared past FIFTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS yesterday, so, now, every man, woman and child in America owes approximately $50,000 to the Chinese and our other creditor nations. In just over 2 years – since President Obama went on the biggest spending binge in history – [...]

This morning, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a key speech on the health of the U.S. economy in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Putting aside his laughable understatement of,“…it is clear that the recovery from the crisis has been much less robust than we had hoped,” Bernanke did make one important point in his talk. Bernanke was [...]

Jamie Radtke opposed the budget compromise in April that delivered less than 0.4% of the $100 billion in promised spending cuts. Jamie opposed raising the debt ceiling. Jamie also opposed the Debt Deal Compromise that fell significantly short in spending cuts and created a nontransparent Super Committee. George Allen was a member of the Senate [...]

This is pretty incredible: Up in Washington the ‘Establishment Party’ has made a great ballyhoo about setting up a ‘Super Committee’ that is going to cut government spending. But there’s a hitch. The Associated Press reports the twelve members of the ‘Super Committee’ have taken $3 million in contributions from the special interests whose spending [...]

By now, I’m sure you have heard the news regarding the debt ceiling “compromise” the Republican and Democrat leaders in Washington are proposing. I am both angered and dismayed by the total lack of leadership and courage this deal represents. Last week I warned that our biggest mistake would be falling for what I called [...]

I’m on the campaign trail today and in five minutes I will be driving through Cuckoo, Virginia. As you can guess, that about sums up where we are in Washington, D.C. I think it is official: the Washington Establishment is Cuckoo. We have proposals from Speaker Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader [...]

On May 23, 2003, Senator George Allen, who had campaigned for the Senate as a fiscal conservative, voted to raise the debt ceiling. This was the second of four votes George Allen cast to raise the debt ceiling while he was in the Senate, increasing Washington’s credit limit by 51%, from $5.95 trillion to $9 trillion. [...]

Today the U.S. government reached the federal debt ceiling of $14.294 trillion. The Washington Establishment consensus seems to be that we must raise the debt ceiling and increase the limit on the taxpayer credit card to as much as $16 trillion by some proposals. There is an expression – “when you are in a hole… [...]

Statement from the Campaign of Jamie Radtke One thing you can say about politics: It’s full of surprises. Here’s Tim Kaine — former Governor and former Obama DNC Chairman — being asked ‘Do you know what the national debt currently is?’ Watch his answer (below). It will shock you and give you a clue about [...]