WaPo: Radtke Posts $100K in December 2010
By Shaun Kenney | Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | PoliticsThe first FEC filings are in, and the only one with any stats is… Jamie Radtke, who lapped Democrat Jim Webb about eight times in fundraising for the last part of 2010.
Ouch.
The givers are also a bit interesting. At first glance, it’s about 50 different people with 12 different last names, all of whom maxed out, for a grand total of 64 contributors.
George Allen, who did not throw in his hat until weeks ago and doesn’t appear to have a campaign finance report (though the FEC database is notoriously byzantine) will not have numbers to show just yet, though he does have fundraising mail out at the moment.
Nothing from either Marshall or Mizusawa as of yet, as they have not yet made the decision to run. Corey Stewart is rumored to be waiting to make an announcement once he has won re-election as Chairman of the PWC Board of Supervisors.
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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First $100K is the easiest (friends, family, etc.)
I’ll be interested to see the total # of donors Allen has vs. the total # from Radtke or anyone else.
I find it most interesting that she brags she organized a 2000+ Tea Party Convention yet only 50 people have donated to her campaign? The key for her will be whether she can get a larger number of grassroots to supporter her, vote for her and donate to her campaign.
I was surprised as well that there were not more small-dollar donors — the traditional base of support for most Tea Party organizations. Of course, she could be holding back too, but I don’t know why she would.
I do know that Allen is in the mail. Lists and the team around Allen are going to be where Jamie is going to have a hard time measuring up… there are certain things that are automatic for a tried and true politician — not so for grassroots campaigns with energy but a lack of experience.
I have not heard much on any “split” in the Tea Party base, though. That seemed to peter out pretty quickly, didn’t it?
It’s way too early to be bashing her for not raising more small dollar donors. Small dollar donors won’t start paying attention to this race until next year.
$100,000 in a month is respectable. The real test will be second quarter and third quarter of this year, when she’ll be up against the state and local candidates fundraising at the same time for this November.
Shaun,
There is NO Tea Party base as an organized entity, so no split is possible. That said, I’d bet heavily that 90%+ of Virginians who would self-identify as TP, would have no opinion or even knowledge of Radtke.
If Marshall runs that WILL split, amongst those who know both.
If someone else with real ideological credibility (and money and organization, two things Marshall is sure to lack — again) were to run, then the split will become more clear.
She organized a convention (a good convention), that is the entirety of her “leading” anything but the Richmond TP.
Did you take the job with her? I know you were talking about it.
Finally, I think she is a weak alternative to Allen. But an alternative to big-spending George is clearly called for.
Ciao
Establishment candidate Allen will also have the real mailing lists made available since Radtke is the challenger to the elite gop power brokers and king makers who are set to bequeath the high cotton title to the good ole Bush era (sic) senator.
If the RPV had enough confidence in Allen then they would share the same email and address list with all candidates but that is not going to happen.. Same resistance to share party voter access was exhibited by the ruling class elite for va-02.
rtwingtroll –
Agreed entirely. If Marshall does run, that will most certainly show the split among the Tea Party rank and file.
…and no, I turned it down.
I will at some point be one of those low dollar contributors to Radtke. I am very glad to see that she raised $100k this quickly.
I am also glad to see somebody admit that the Tea Party convention was really well done. Easier to respect opposing views when you at least acknowledge the truth of that.
I think I’ll join you Britt. I have been unemployed for a while but i just started a new job. My wife has been unemployed for over a year but I think she is about to get hired – so I think we can scape up a small amount of money to help Jamie.
Yes … I am a TEA Party person.
I backed Bob Marshall when he ran for U.S. Senate before, and would if he declares again.
I agree about Marshall’s lack of organization in 2008: it was only Bob and his wife coming to events here in VB.
That said, if Marshall doesn’t run, I’m firmly in the ABR (Anyone But Rat-ke) Camp.
Lol, why is that Henry? Just because Reid likes her? Or just because you like making fun of her name?
Henry, got to give you credit ya ole tax & spend liberals credit where due.. former senator Allen sure has a better record of signing earmarks than former tea party convention organizer Radtke does..
Do you think you could ask yourself if you think you will be better off after 6 years with Allen or Radtke in office? Would be interesting to know your thoughts.
Britt, it is probably because people like Henry Ryto believe that government exists to pay their living expenses – and Henry knows that the TEA Party patriots will put a stop to his free ride in life.
TEA Party followers understand that not only is government not supposed to redistribute the wealth to subsidize the basic life expenses of special classes of citizens – expenses such as housing, transportation, food, health care, insurance, education, and even entertainment (often deceptively refered to as “arts”) – TEA Party Conservatives understand the harmful effects of the cradle-tograve welfare state upon our nation – and the adverse impact that dependency upon government creates.
Of course Henry is afraid of Jamie – if enough TEA Party candidates are elected his free ride will end.
So it is going to be the ABA camp (Anyone But Allen) versus the ABR camp (Anyone But Radkte). Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh no.
So which candidate do I support? I like Allen West.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_%28politician%29
When one compares Allen West to the current candidates and would-be candidates, it becomes hard to develop enthusiasm for the current crop. At least for me.
Totally understand your point James, and it will be up to the candidates and campaigns to change minds and increase enthusiasm.
To be fair though, you’re definitely setting the bar high. I don’t know that many people would want to be compared to Alan West. What few videos I have seen of him, I really really like.
Good to see that James “Turbo” Cohen still has little clue on how campaigns work.
“If the RPV had enough confidence in Allen then they would share the same email and address list with all candidates but that is not going to happen.”
RPV doesn’t share anything with Allen; he has run for statewide office THREE TIMES, and Congress before that. I have a sneaky hunch that Allen has built, over the course of 3 decades in politics, a pretty extensive state-wide database of supporters/emails/donors/ etc.
Are you going to start whining that he should “share” it with Jamie? The bottom line, any private company (or CANDIDATE) candidate can go to countless private vendors and “rent” (i.e., BUY) lists. They can order lists of everyone in the state that has subscriptions to certain magazines, or identified as a veteran, etc.
Jamie Radtke should have an extensive database and mailing list from the Tea Party. I’m sure she won’t be sharing that with Allen.
Bryan, I hope she does. Remember the story of Brer rabbit..
Britt,
Very simply, tea baggers are evil.
But what about Tea Partiers? My question didn’t involve sexual practices.
Don’t worry. I get the gist of your ad hominem. In addition to being a Libertarian, I also consider myself to be a part of the Tea Party movement. I guess that makes me “evil” too.
Well, at least I know what your position is regarding Radtke. FWIW, I don’t see you as evil. We simply disagree on some issues.
@James Hawkins, we had such a candidate – General Bert Mizusawa [http://bertmizusawa.com/]. However, IF he enters the Senate race he runs (again) as an outsider.
Allen West didn’t have a primary challenge – as the de facto Republican nominee, 100% of ‘red’ money flowed his way… about $6.5 million.
As a political newbie, big lesson learned in last year’s D2 congressional race ~ cash and political favors (insider status) win primaries. Ms. Radtke will make it interesting, but this is Allen’s nomination to loose. If primary voters really want a different choice … it will take a massive, organized grassroots cash cough-up to make it happen, IMHO.
FWIW: “Allen’s committee fundraising paled in comparison to potential future opponent Webb. Webb’s candidate committee raised $688,356 between April and June, according to his FEC report. (For those wondering, Sen. Mark Warner (D) raised $560,000).”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/07/not_yet_a_candidate_george_all.html
Britt,
I tossed a grenade on my way out the door to work.
Three major problems with the TEA Party:
1. Racism – the report at http://www.teapartynationalism.com details the 96% White TEA Party’s ties to racist groups.
2. No solutions – for all the TEA Party’s screaming, where are the real and detailed solutions from them?
3. Can’t win in November – as was shown last year in AK, DE, and NV, you can’t win the general election with a tea bagger as your nominee.
Jamie Radtke came to Virginia Beach and called for the Federal Budget to be cut by $1 trillion – without specifying where. Rand Paul has floated a specific plan for cutting $500 billion. That Rat-ke wants people to believe she can cut twice as much as Paul, without naming her cuts, shows her to be the fraud that she is.
As for Greenmun’s repeated attempts to misconstrue my views, from what I saw of Paul’s plan on Fox News, I agreed with most of it. While I haven’t read it in detail, it’s certainly a starting point for discussions.
Reid’s rants are best left for comic relief, so let’s look at what he said this morning. He complained about redistribution of wealth for:
1. Housing – I suppose he’s never taken the mortgage interest deduction.
2. Transportation – like those subsidized roads he drives on. (Yes, he likes to pretend roads aren’t subsidized.)
3. Food – does he mean the food at the Coast Guard base where he used to work as a contractor, or his daughter’s school lunches?
4. Education – like his daughter’s public school.
Reid is 100% against wealth redistribution…unless it’s going into his own pocket. He then engages in his habitual hypocrisy, doing the very thing he attacks others for.
Henry.. Tea Party Movement Racism my ass.. that is BS and you know better! If I want to find it, I can find equally credible “proof” online that jews are antisemitic and muslims are islamophobic and that Pat Robertson is the antichrist.. Yes it is on the internets so it must be true applies here.
With all due respect for you Henry there is no such thing as a Tea Party. You comment as if making a charge against a political party called the Tea Party unless I am terribly mistaken. Calling someone without baggage a fraud without proving it is pretty disgraceful. Can’t stand liberty in transition or can you Mr. Ryto?
As for cutting $1T, we may not have a choice and Rand may not be calling for enough of a draconian cut. If it were up to me I would appoint The best damn CFO that ever lived named Jerome York and he would slaughter the budget regardless of the number and in 2 years we would have surplusses impossible to imagine today. Our overseas lenders may force our hand to do this if we fail to get our house in order.
Henry, I feel free to ask Jamie what her plans are at the RPVB Fedruary 12th breakfast. http://www.appgadget.com/n9dkjmdfb7o8/main.php?view=event&eventid=1274845227988-0037
Henry, I can see an argument for saying the solutions offered by the Tea Party are not detailed enough. Rand did win, but you have a point about the Tea Party not having a consistent winning record…….yet.
What you are dead wrong on, and you know it, is the charge of racism. Just like every group (even Dems & Repubs) you will find a kook or two. On the whole, the Tea Party is anything but racist. I have plenty of pictures of people of color at Tea Party events. They almost always feature a speaker that is black. Coby Dillard (happens to be black) is a cofounder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party. You have Gilbert Wilkerson and Bishop Jackson, prominent black Tea Partiers that obviously don’t hold your view.
Really Henry, why do you need to libel/slander the Tea Party with hurtful untruths? Why not stick with the points you can honestly make?
Indeed Jay D, Bert Mizusawa might be the candidate I could get excited about. However have never seen him talk.
Here is a tape of Allen West from 7/3/2010. I even own a t-shirt just like the one that West is wearing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtxeCg6HpEE&feature=channel
Allen West is a leader.
Bert is the Right guy to lead Va
Comical is the notion of folks like Henry Ryto and his fellow free loader class. I’ll compare the taxes I pay to the taxes Henry pays any day. Then, I’ll compare the cost of burden Henry adds to taxpayers who pay Henry’s day-to-day expenses to the same costs to taxpayers that I have incurred in my lifetime.
What? Ohhhh … I pay a lot of taxes – Henry and his freeloader class? Nope. They are net burdens on society.
Clearly we can appreciate WHY Henry doesn’t support the TEA Party – or Jamie for Senate – it is because he fears if too many TEA Party candidates are elected his free rides will end – and “GASP!”, he will have to pay for his own expenses (the horror).
Tyler, I like bert but his wife works for the Federal Reserve Bank. That makes me a tad uncomfortable.
Join up http://www.facebook.com/pages/Draft-Bert-Mizusawa-for-Senate/123582221043392?ref=sgm#!/pages/Draft-Bert-Mizusawa-for-Senate/123582221043392?v=wall
Ried, Berts wife Yvonne is one of a thousand or so attorneys who work for the Fed. She is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. And Yvonne is not part of the problem with the Fed in any way shape or form, the problem is with the leadership of this country and the people who pull the strings from the inside. If ANYONE can shed light on some of the concerns with the inner sanctum of the fed it is Bert. He likely has better than average access to some goings on and for better or worse I would bet Rand Paul would tap that as well. Why doesn’t someone ask the RPVB to invite Bert and Yvonne to speak at a saturday breakfast and bring up their concerns about Berts wife working for the fed.. I think tea party members might be in for a real pleasant surprise.
Henry said we’d have a race war in Virginia Beach if City Council didn’t adopt his redistricting plan. That was 10 years ago.
Predictions aren’t his strong suit.
Since then, Henry’s been coddling up to minority political groups hoping to be there when the “war” happens.
He’s still waiting.
So, don’t be surprised if Henry throws the race card around. He has to.
@James Hawkins. Watched Allen West–impressive. Bert isn’t a fire & brimstone style speaker. He is the guy that leads by example, thinks before he speaks, has a tremendous reserve of knowledge, experience, character, and believes in the Constitution, this great nation, and the American people. He is the real deal, and as such is quietly earning respect and notice in Virginia.
“Retired Birgadier General Bert Mizusawa – Mizusawa has the personal story and military credentials to become a political force if he can find the right office to run for. Just as important was the fact that after a nasty primary, Bert seems to have come out with little-to-no ill will from folks in and around the 2nd district. He has the kind of sterling resume that many would kill for, and he’s already being talked up again as a dark-horse US Senate candidate . . . pretty good for a guy who got 18% in a congressional primary.”http://masonconservative.typepad.com/the_mason_conservative/2011/01/top-10-conservatives-to-watch-in-america-and-virginia.html?cid=6a00d8341bf81753ef0147e1d5aacb970b
@Reid Greenmun: Agree w/ Turbo. Yvonne Mizusawa may be intelligent, talented, and articulate, but she has the same capacity to impact Fed policy as does Daffy Duck. That little ditty played out on BD; it was nothing more than political mudslinging in the heat of a bloody primary fight.
So……..Jay D. You think Daffy Duck has no influence with Fed policy?
Well, just you wait until Ben Bernanke takes off his mask. Then you will see just how wrong you are.
Reid,
That you believe the measure of one’s value to society is the amount of taxes they pay I’ll let say what it does about you.
Brian,
Catch the release of the 2010 Census figures? Nothing you weren’t told wouldn’t happen a decade ago, but I bet YOUR friends’ pants were still turning brown.
The entire City will be our’s within a generation. “He who laughs last laughs loudest.”
ours?
So…………..how about that Jamie Radtke raising $100,000 already?
Lol.
Britt,
Having money to work with doesn’t guarantee a primary win. Just ask Brian about Marty williams.
Race-baiter Henry Ryto claims the City of VA Beach as “ours”:
Gee … and here we all thought Henry Ryto was white. Oh wait … that’s becuase he is white.
I guess Henry means that Finland will soon take over the City of Virginia Beach.
Nice Freudian slip, Reid, admitting the VBTA leadership sees things in racial terms.
Nowhere did I say “our’s” refers to race.
Then what did you mean “ours” Henry.
What did your reference to Census figures mean?
Brian,
Inclusion doesn’t turn on race alone. There are a number of other factors. As Reid has pointed out, I’m a White man who has done work with AAPAC and the NAACP.
Of course, the elitists you’re in bed with want to write such off as “minority issues”, ignore them, etc.
Readers should note that Brian ignored this thread until he saw a chance to launch a barely-related attack on me. Lap dog wanting a treat from his masters.
Then what did you mean “ours” Henry. (I didn’t ask what you didn’t mean. What did you mean? Who is the “our” in “ours”)
What did your reference to Census figures mean?
Answer the questions.
No, I read this thread and love responding to you, Henry, because you are so frequently wrong.
I can’t resist easy targets.
Money certainly helps, Henry. As does the support for her that that demonstrates.
As for your shot at Brian about Marty Williams losing. All I can say is that you can only do so much with a flawed candidate that lost touch with the people. I bet Marty endorses Webb.
If Dick Moris is going to play stupid, he’s gonna have to be tough..
Reposting.. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/02/dick_morris_disses_but_misses.html
Dick Morris Disses (But Misses) Virginia Tea Party Candidate for Senate
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Tea Party organizer Jamie Radtke is running for the United States Senate from Virginia. She has already attended her first Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting by request of the caucus. Sounds like they want her as a colleague.
Radtke’s a constitutional conservative who isn’t afraid to point out the mistakes of establishment big-government Republicans. As it became clear the Tea Party was the major force of last year’s elections, she wrote the GOP is on probation, a phrase copied even by some Republicans in Congress who understand their party is in deep kimchi if they fail to rise to cause.
Radtke organized the largest Tea Party convention held to date while running a small business and home schooling her three children. Add to her resume, which is deeply rooted in small-government conservative policy and politics, that she’s a good fundraiser.
All that adds up, for now, to her being underestimated by the pundits. That’s good. Successful conservatives are almost always underestimated at first. Soon enough, however, the pundits will go on the attack against her. She’s a threat to their bread and butter, big government.
If Radtke were to win the 2012 Republican primary in Virginia, she may face Jim Webb who is still deciding whether to seek re-election, but his anemic fundraising indicates he probably won’t. Webb and fellow Virginia Senator Mark Warner have turned out to be Virginia’s Tweedledee and Tweedledum, campaigning as moderate Democrats but toeing the Obama-Reid line.
Webb recently voted against repealing ObamaCare, further indicating he’s not running in the state that in 2009 elected conservatives Bob McDonnell governor and Ken Cuccinelli attorney general by landslides. Warner was conspicuously absent from the ObamaCare repeal vote.
The incumbent whom Webb beat in 2006, George Allen, has also announced he’s running. Allen is a good man, but when Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress from 2001 to 2006, he failed to exercise the constitutional conservative leadership needed to stop the massive spending that took place. The results for both Allen and the Republican Party spoke for themselves.
Now is not the time for just good men and women or go-along Republicans willing to merely say no to Obama’s increases in government spending. We need cuts. We need a return to government ruled by the Constitution. We need fresh faces without ties and indebtedness to special interests and the Washington establishment. In other words, we need leaders who will buck the political establishment.
Radtke will be in the Jim DeMint, Rand Paul camp. She won’t toe the big-government Republican line. She’s a constitutional cutter. Her optimistic and positive demeanor should not be misconstrued. She’s principled and tough.
Dick Morris, who predicted Republicans would win back the Senate in 2010, had in a recent article/email what amounted almost to a moment reminiscent of Karl Rove’s bashing Christine O’Donnell.
Confessing his over-exuberance in the 2010 races, then writing about the Virginia race, Morris wrote, “Not a sure pickup but, if the Republican Party nominates Allen — and not some later day Christine O’Donnell — we should be all right.”
I’ve had the distinct pleasure to get to know and follow Jamie Radtke since 2009. As someone who has fought against abusive, overreaching government and for constitutional limitations, I can tell you Radtke is more of a cross between Michele Bachmann and Ron Johnson, the non-career politician who defeated Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold in the 2010 election.
Virginia is redder than Minnesota and Wisconsin. The 2012 senate race is a real opportunity to add another DeMint ally who is willing to stand up against even her own party when it is weak-kneed or compromised by its ties to the establishment.
A day after he wrote about the Virginia senate race, I received a Morris advertiser email: “GOP Sellout Looms on Debt Ceiling Vote: Stop Them Now.”
Radtke wouldn’t be a part of the GOP sellout crowd. I’ll bet Morris becomes a Radtke fan as her campaign grows and her star shines brighter.
Morris doesn’t know Radtke and is speculating based on that.
Morris is on the establishment payroll.. So is Mark Levin.. Both are carrying water for Allen.. Anything for a buck.
Jamie Radtke continues to get TV and Radio time Radtke was recently on WTVR CBS Richmond. She’s working on name ID and continuing to stress Tea Party issues like cutting the debt and entitlement reform. Pretty gutsy stating the obvious about what many people just don’t want to hear.
http://www.wtvr.com/videobeta/92d5a835-4246-4158-8814-4ec85f6a1fa6/News/2012-Virginia-Senate-Race
Radtke is happy that Planned Parenthood defunding passed the House. If needed she would love to defund it as Senator.
“I’m very happy to see the House eliminate taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. Let’s see what the Senate does…unfortunately we just might need a new VA Senator who can help get it passed. Elections matter!” – Jamie Radtke from her Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/jamielradtke/posts/10150151867870937#!/jamielradtke
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I doubt there are any folks around here who weren’t happy to see that pass the House. Granted, it’s chances of actually moving forward are slim, but it was a nice symbolic vote.
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