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, [...]

Despite the worst economy since the Depression, President Obama and the Washington Establishment continue to take money out of the tills of businesses and pockets citizens to fund its out-of-control spending. Now comes word that America’s poverty rate has risen to 15.1%, the highest since 1993. Every dollar the government takes from Americans and businesses is [...]

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 [...]

How often have you heard a mom say to her children, “Don’t make me repeat myself”? It’s a frustration all parents face: Telling your kids to listen and then they completely ignore you. If you think about it, the frustration is understandable. We know that what we are telling our children to do is in [...]

It is Time to Take this New Deal Program off Taxpayer Life Support

Last week when the Washington Post asked George Allen where he stands on the Ryan budget plan – Allen dodged. And yesterday, when the Washington Post asked Tim Kaine how he would’ve voted on the Obama budget – Kaine dodged. Jamie Radtke is not dodging the issue: “To rescue this country from fiscal calamity, Virginians and Americans desperately [...]

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… [...]

Jamie Radtke, candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, today strongly denounced the decision by the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority to build a more expensive underground Metro station, rather than an above-ground station, at Dulles International Airport. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Congressman Frank Wolf, and leaders of the boards of supervisors of Loudoun and Fairfax [...]

Statement from Jamie Radtke regarding President Obama’s Budget Speech President Obama gave a speech at George Washington University yesterday in which he asserted that America became a great nation because of government programs. I disagree. America became great nation because free men and women built our country brick by brick, by the sweat of their [...]