Jamie Radtke Runs Grassroots Campaign in Senate GOP Primary Race
Home-schooling mom of three says mounting federal debt motivated her to run for office.
With congressional primary elections scheduled next week, Patch is profiling each of the four Republican candidates running for the U.S. Senate, who will face each other on the ballot June 12.
Tea party member Jamie Radtke of Chesterfield County announced in December 2010 she was running for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Jim Webb, who is retiring from the U.S. Senate.
Before running for the U.S. Senate, Radtke was best known for co-founding and chairing the Virginia Federation of Tea Party Patriots. She organized a tea party convention that attracted nearly 3,000 participants to Richmond.
The home-schooling mom of three grew up in a military family (her father was an F-4 pilot in the Air Force), and is a graduate of Liberty University, with a bachelor of science degree in government. She earned a master of public policy degree from William & Mary in 1998.
In a wide-ranging interview last year with Patch, Radtke discussed her views on everything from energy issues and healthcare to gay marriage and abortion. The interview took place at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton.
In the video interviews, attached here (above), she discusses her views on:
- the GOP primary and how she plans to win it
- federal debt and spending
- social issues
- energy, immigration, and healthcare
- President Barack Obama’s leadership
- political role models
Publius Publicola
12:12 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Mrs. Radtke had the best line of the primary season in the Virginia Beach debate - 'This election is not about sending a person to Washington, this election is about saving people from Washington.'
Go Jamie!
http://redalexandriava.com/2012/05/18/jamie-radtke-election-not-about-sending-a-person-to-washington-its-about-saving-people-from-washington-video/
Luke
3:57 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Radke says people are tired of "career politicians", yet her career has spanned years of working in politics. So how would she be any different then what she calls "career politicians" since she has done nothing but politics?? A little hypocritical i say.
BurkePatriot
10:35 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Luke,
When she means "career politician" she means a politician who makes decisions that my be popular to do in order to secure votes for retaining his or her job regardless if it's the wrong decision.
The proper and moral politians are those who aren't cowards. Who have a spine to stand up for there principles they promised to there constituence. Not worry whether the decision will save there job but to concentrate on doing there job. The job that the people who supported the politician worked so hard to represent them with.
If you actually listen to her you wouldn't make the ignorant statement you made.
She is a good sincere women and deserves your apology.
In Liberty,
BurkePatriot
12:49 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
We as freedom loving individuals, we as conservatives need to be the establishment. Treating every position of influence whether local,state, or federal with dire importantance and owning the position.
Selling the moral values of individual liberty so often that it becomes cheap for anyone to own in there heart so it can be lived with by all. Freedom doesn't discriminate but can only elivate individuals.
Conservatism is the only mind altering cure for liberals mental disorder of force and violence that they spread upon themselves and more importantly others.
The only way we can be individuals free from others is by prescribing only to the one medicine, the one and only cure of the immoralism of force and violence upon each other. That cure is the U.S. Constitution.
Jamie Radke is a lady who prescribes to this freedom message and we need more people like her to spread the cure for all our ailments.
In Liberty,
T Ailshire
10:30 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Jamie is so right on so many issues, but so wrong in her insistence (just like 2 of the other 3 candidates) that her moral compass must guide everyone else's actions, that I cannot in good conscience vote to send her to the Senate.
We need people who will respect the rights of EVERYONE -- whether gay, female, atheist (or all of the above)! Everyone.
BurkePatriot
11:23 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Her moral compass is the constitution. Respecting the rights for everyone is what the constitution does. It doesn't pick winners or losers. People should have the right to act in ways that reaches one of those results.
Rights of gays: They have the right to be with anyone they please. Get a civil union commitment. Nobody has has right to force churches ,individuals, to marry homosexuals if they don't choose to. That is force and violence. Why do you support that?
Female rights to choose: Nobody has the "right to choose" to kill someone who can't defend themselves. Why do you want someone to be able to kill a human being?
Atheist: Those who don't believe in a god but believe in anti-god are a religion themselves. They don't have the right to silence those who believe in god. This mob is anti-freedom. Why do you want to silent people you may agree with?
Lets summarize:
You are for force and violence with the help of government to prevent the
church to practice relgion
in the name of gay rights.
You are for women to KILL children in the name "womens rights" not children.
You want to SILENT churches in the name of a mob that call themselves atheists so they can push anti-god.
Against church,free speech and advocate murder all with force and violence.
The mental illness of liberals. There disability in there minds can't get that they hurt themselves and others with there view of "rights".
The constitution protects all!
In Liberty,
T Ailshire
12:33 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Constitution doesn't address marriage, thank you very much.
Please explain why my husband and I couldn't get a civil union - just because we are opposite gender - and then I'll agree that civil unions are the legal and moral equivalent of marriages. If you don't want gays to marry, fine -- don't marry one. MARRIAGE should be open to all people capable of consenting.
You and I will have to disagree on the point at which a fetus becomes a child. Jamie Radtke believes life begins at conception. If anyone can ever prove that, I'll agree; for now I don't believe an abortion is "killing a child." One of the requirements of a murder charge is to prove a human was killed. Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Now, you don't know what I'm "for." You know only that I disagree with Jamie Radtke. And for the record, I'm far from a "liberal" -- though perhaps in the sense you mean it (i.e. "everyone different from me"), you're right.
T-Bird
11:35 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Burkepatriot (nutbag, whatever) - sorry but you misrepresentations do not impress anybody. The fact that you call other peoples opinions "a sickness" is very telling. Anybody who says every one else is sick and they have the "cure" is usually the sign of another kind of sickness: Psycho
Mary C. Stachyra
11:54 am on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Let's please remember to keep the conversation civil, as required by our terms of service. Thanks!
T-Bird
12:22 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Mary, civility begets civility. When you declare you moral superiority to everyone else and call all that don't think like you "sick", I don't see the civility. Anybody who says "freedom for all" in one sentence and "live by my rules" in the same breath doesn't seem to grasp the concept of hypocrisy. I know BurkePatriot has clearly escaped the Training Center, but something must be said, or they will start beileving the echos of their own voice. That is, if they don't already.
T Ailshire
12:34 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
T-Bird, what an awful thing to say about residents of the Training Center - who are (generally) respectful of others.
Mary C. Stachyra
2:55 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
I agree, T-Bird, that civility begets civility. That's why I'm asking everyone on this forum to please keep the conversation respectful and on topic. We all should be able to talk about the issues without attacking one another or calling names. Thanks for participating.
T-Bird
3:26 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
T Ailshire - You are right. I am very sorry that I compared the (mostly) nice people of the Training Center with a feckless troll like BurkePatriot. That was not fair of me.
BurkePatriot
6:35 pm on Friday, June 8, 2012
T-Bird,
I have never declared moral superiority or say "live by my rules".
I have never said that if someone disagrees with me are sick.
"We the people" have declared that the declaration and the constitution does provide moral superioty than that of utopian mental illness if liberal apath, socualism.
The law of this land is not debatable. It can be amended which is lawful. Anything that is done beyond the constitution is immoral and unlawful. Breaking laws is immoral. That is not opinion.
People who choose to harm oneself and also harms others with unlawful laws with the force and violence used by government are sane people? Feeling good while inflicting and recieving pain. That is a sickness isn't it? I'm not throwing stones but truth. I may disagree with you but I still love you. We can discuss and not cuss. I love this country so much because we can.
In Liberty,
Adolf
10:07 am on Sunday, June 10, 2012
She is new blood, one of the new republicans that will sweep into office in 2012. And she kind of looks like Sara Palin same glasses.
Skip Endale
11:01 am on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Women hold only 17% of the seats in Congress. Only 22% of all statewide elective executive office positions are currently held by women. State Legislatures are only 24% women. Only 6 out of 50 states have a female governor.
The United States trails behind much of the world—ranking 90th in the number of women in our national legislature. (The U.S. is listed as 73rd, but after accounting for tied rankings of other countries, the ranking for the U.S. is 90th)
Afghanistan in contrast has 69 women in parliament, 249 members in total.