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), …
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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 … more ›