Virginia Tea Party candidate asks conservative blogger to apologize

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Virginia Tea Party favorite and U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke is calling on a conservative blogger to apologize after he wrote a blog post insinuating that she was drunk while she gave a speech two weeks ago.

Erick Erickson, head of the popular blog Redstate.com and who previously endorsed Radtke, posted a blog that quoted anonymous witnesses to the speech saying that Radtke was drunk while she delivered it at the Redstate.com convention. The anonymous quotes also said the speech was a “trainwreck,” “horrendous and never-ending.”

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