Radtke submits ballot petitions
Republican Senate candidate Jamie Radtke submitted 21,522 petition signatures to the State Board of Election on Mondays, with approximately 1,000 to 4,000 signatures in each congressional district.
State law requires candidates for statewide office to submit petitions with 10,000 signatures total collected statewide and a minimum 400 signature requirement in each Congressional District to be on the ballot. Many Republican presidential candidates failed to meet this minimum requirement this year in Virginia. Read more
Radtke raises issue with IRS actions
U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke has asked the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to launch a formal investigation into abusive actions by the Internal Revenue Service toward Tea Party and Patriot organizations.
On Friday, Radtke sent a letter to Congressman Darrell Issa describing IRS actions toward conservative organizations currently seeking IRS non-profit status as “an assault by the Internal Revenue Service on Tea Party and Patriot groups.” Read more
Poll: Cuccinelli with big early lead in ’13 GOP gubernatorial race
Ken Cuccinelli holds an early 19-point lead in the race for the 2013 Republican Party gubernatorial nomination, according to poll numbers released by Public Policy Polling on Tuesday.
The attorney general leads the lieutenant governor by a 44 percent-to-25 percent margin in the PPP survey of GOP voters. The lead is based largely on Cuccinelli’s big advantage in name recognition (73 percent of GOP have an opinion on Cuccinelli, while just 48 percent have an opinion on Bolling) and a huge gap among Tea Party voters. Cuccinelli holds a 58 percent-to-18 percent lead over Bolling among Tea Party voters in the PPP poll. Read more
Tea Party forum for Senate candidates
The Shenandoah Valley Tea Party Patriots is holding a U.S. Senate Candidates Debate on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center, 18 Government Center Way, Verona.
Candidates who have committed to be a part of the forum include Kevin Chisholm, Timothy Donner, E.W. Jackson, David McCormick and Jamie Radtke.
Tim Kaine and George Allen have declined invites to the forum, which will be moderated by Tom Graham, the host of “Virginia Insight” on WMRA-90.7FM.
Radtke blames Allen, Kaine, Obama for Wall Street protests
Tea Party Republican Senate candidate Jamie Radtke today blasted George Allen, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama for playing a part in fueling recent protests on Wall Street against free-market capitalism.
In a Tuesday morning interview on WLNI, Radtke told a Lynchburg audience: “Those protesters should be mad at career politicians, like George Allen and Tim Kaine and Barack Obama, who are working to benefit the special interests at the expense of working Americans.”
Radtke said, “An example of how it works is: George Allen takes millions in campaign contributions from Finance or Insurance or Real Estate interests, and then supports manipulating the markets to their advantage. That’s how George Allen’s been playing Wall Street politics.”
Radtke then cited the following actions by George Allen as evidence he manipulated the market:
Allen voted for the prescription drug entitlement known as “Medicare Part D”
Allen refused to help Senate attempts to reform Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Allen supported subsidies for various Wall Street interests like Ethanol and Sugar
“These left-wing radicals’ claims against Capitalism are fueled by career politicians like George Allen and Tim Kaine and Barack Obama, who are actually rejecting Capitalism and manipulating the markets for their friends.”
Radtke told WLNI the protesters on Wall Street are wrong to blame capitalism for the country’s economic woes. Instead, she said, “These protesters should be mad at liberal politicians like George Allen and Tim Kaine and Barack Obama for thinking they have the right to bleed working families in order to reward the fat cats that are bankrolling their campaigns.”
Kaine campaign critical of Allen on disaster aid
The Tim Kaine Senate campaign is being critical of Republican George Allen for siding with the Tea Party’s call for budget cuts in exchange for disaster relief.
“George Allen attempted to turn a natural disaster into an economic disaster by joining Tea Partiers in Congress who held disaster funding hostage in order to further their ideological agenda and risked shutting down the federal government,” said Kaine spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine.
Hoffine pointed out that as a senator Allen voted against legislation requiring Congress to offset disaster-aid spending.
“By siding with the Tea Party in calling for disaster funding to be offset – a position he’s never held before and one his own Republican governor disagrees with – Allen put election politics ahead of Virginia families in recovering communities,” Hoffine said.
Chris Graham: Party in the middle
Posted by afp on December 1, 2011 · 4 Comments
Guess who wins?
- The media entities that make billions in ad dollars from drawing eyes to the theater of the absurd that is prime-time cable news. Which is to say, nobody’s watching CSPAN or PBS breaking down issues when they can have Hannity and O’Reilly and Olbermann and Maddow and the rest breaking bones right there on live TV.
- The anarchists. And they’re on both sides. We know that they’re running the Occupy movement. The Tea Partiers don’t refer to or think of themselves that way, but if your aim is to cripple government, yeah, well, you are what you are.
- The pols. Don’t kid yourselves, TP’ers and Occupiers. You can rouse all the rabble you want. The entrenched allow you to do what you do because the circus sideshows that you put on delegitimize the myriad valid critiques of the status quo.
Guess who loses?
- Well, yeah, duh, the 60 percent of us in the middle who think that the Tea Party and Occupiers are full of it. We’d stay up all hours of the night blogging about Obama being born in Kenya and hanging out in parks flashing gang signs at each other, except that we have to get up in the morning to go to work, to run our small businesses, to get the kids to school and to soccer practice, to get dinner on the table, to keep the roof over our heads at night.
- The economy. Sorry, Tea Party, but we’ve got 75 years of evidence of how government spending is a necessary evil to turn around a down economy. Now is not the time to turn back the clock to the Herbert Hoover era to see if we can get that to work again. And sorry, Occupy, but the act of starting and running a successful business is not inherently a bad thing. But you guys knew that already – somebody among your collective had to have even just a sliver of business acumen to figure out how to raise and disburse money to keep the tents up and hot soup a-comin’.
I hate to admit to being at a loss as to what those of us who actually like America and instead of tearing down what we have to start over would prefer that we work to build upon what we have can do to get our point across, but I am.
Suggestions?
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