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Mike Webb
Mike Webb (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Virginia's 8th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on June 18, 2024.
Biography
Mike Webb was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He earned an undergraduate degree from Washington & Lee University in June 1988. Webb also took graduate classes at Washington & Lee University Law School, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, Liberty University, Villanova University, and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. His professional experience includes working as a conservative political advocate and activist. He served in the United States Army from October 1990 to June 2010. Webb is affiliated with the Army and Navy Club, the 75th Ranger Regiment Association, and the Angels of Liberty.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2024
Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)
Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Virginia District 8
Incumbent Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. defeated Jerry Torres, David Kennedy, and Bentley Hensel in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 8 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (D) | 71.5 | 274,593 |
 | Jerry Torres (R) | 24.7 | 94,676 | |
 | David Kennedy (Independent)  | 2.6 | 9,956 | |
 | Bentley Hensel (Independent) | 1.0 | 3,656 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 1,034 | ||
| Total votes: 383,915 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeramy Olmack (No Party Affiliation)
- Stephen Leon (Independent)
Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 8.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew Campbell (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Jerry Torres advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 8.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mike Webb (R)
- Bill Moher (R)
- Adam Sahebian (R)
- Heerak Christian Kim (R)
- Gavin Proffitt (R)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Webb in this election.
Pledges
Webb signed the following pledges.
2023
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2023
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 3
Incumbent Alfonso Lopez defeated Mike Webb in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 3 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alfonso Lopez (D) | 81.7 | 17,416 |
 | Mike Webb (Independent) | 17.1 | 3,651 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 260 | ||
| Total votes: 21,327 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Alfonso Lopez advanced from the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 3.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Webb in this election.
2020
See also: Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2020
Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primary)
Virginia's 8th Congressional District election, 2020 (May 30 Republican convention)
General election
General election for U.S. House Virginia District 8
Incumbent Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. defeated Jeff Jordan in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 8 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (D) | 75.8 | 301,454 |
 | Jeff Jordan (R) | 24.0 | 95,365 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 926 | ||
| Total votes: 397,745 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew Straw (Independent)
Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 8.
Republican convention
Republican convention for U.S. House Virginia District 8
Jeff Jordan defeated Mark Ellmore in the Republican convention for U.S. House Virginia District 8 on May 30, 2020.
Candidate | ||
 | Mark Ellmore (R) | |
| ✔ | | Jeff Jordan (R) |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Heerak Christian Kim (R)
- Mike Webb (R)
2018
General election
Incumbent Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. defeated Thomas Oh in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 8 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for U.S. House Virginia District 8
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (D) | 76.1 | 247,137 |
 | Thomas Oh (R) | 23.7 | 76,899 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 712 | ||
| Total votes: 324,748 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mike Webb (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Incumbent Donald Sternoff "Don" Beyer was the only candidate to file for the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 8. Therefore, the Democratic primary scheduled for June 12, 2018, was canceled.[2]
Republican primary election
Thomas Oh was the only candidate to file for the Republican convention for U.S. House Virginia District 8. Therefore, the 8th Congressional District Republican Committee canceled the nominating convention scheduled for April 28, 2018.[3]
2017
One of the five seats on the Arlington Public Schools school board in Virginia was up for at-large general election on November 7, 2017. Incumbent James Lander did not file to run for re-election, which left the seat open for a newcomer. Alison Priscilla Dough, Monique O’Grady, and Mike Webb ran for the seat, and O'Grady won election to the board.[4]
Results
| Arlington Public Schools, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Monique O’Grady |
70.35% | 50,734 |
| Mike Webb | 17.55% | 12,659 |
| Alison Priscilla Dough | 10.30% | 7,427 |
| Write-in votes | 1.8% | 1,296 |
| Total Votes | 72,116 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2017 November General," accessed November 21, 2017 | ||
Funding
Webb reported $20,263.16 in contributions and $20,186.80 in expenditures to the Virginia Department of Elections, which left his campaign with $76.36 on hand in the election.[5]
2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Don Beyer (D) defeated Charles Hernick (R) and Julio Gracia (I) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Hernick defeated Mike Webb in the Republican convention on May 7, 2016.[6][7]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Don Beyer Incumbent |
68.4% | 246,653 | |
| Republican | Charles Hernick | 27.3% | 98,387 | |
| Independent | Julio Gracia | 4.1% | 14,664 | |
| N/A | Write-in | 0.3% | 972 | |
| Total Votes | 360,676 | |||
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections | ||||
Webb did not make it onto the general election ballot.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mike Webb did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2023
Mike Webb completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Webb's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The kids of pandemic are the leaders of tomorrow, and the very preventable learning loss must be addressed.
- Educators especially in Arlington, the community with the most government scientists, and ranked 14th in the nation for holders of graduate degrees, knew, or should have known, that schools did not have to be closed.
- Public charter schools, home schooling and vouchers provide access to better education.
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2020
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Mike Webb completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Webb's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- VA8 is the kingmaker district that has decided the outcome of statewide races for the past two decades, and POTUS need only pick up eight points.
- Since 2018, POTUS has enjoyed an approval rating amongst African Americans over 30%, and is performing well with Latinos.
- 65% of Americans support some restrictions on abortion, and a single issue pro life voter (45%) is more likely to vote than a pro choice voter (35%).
As the son and grandson of fundamentalist Baptist pastors, with two family churches on the National Historic Registry, and as a member of a Southern Baptist Church, I am in line with the Founders who made Freedom of Religion the first liberty in the Bill of Rights.
As a retired field grade officer with assignments in special operations and strategic counterintelligence, I support a strong deterrent to aggression and the ability to defend our borders and our strategic interests around the world, but reject the notion that our military power should be used as world police.
My military experience informs my heritage as the great grandson of a Jewish immigrant who fled Germany before the Holocaust, and I recognize the strategic value of Israel, our best friend and ally in the contentious Middle East.
Machiavelli even warned his prince that, even if it was not necessary that he possess all of those qualities, it was nonetheless of greatest necessity to maintain legitimacy in power to appear to have those good qualities. Yet mass demonstrations of "proud to be nasty women," elected members of Congress publishing press releases to promote their intent to boycott a ceremony that has marked the peaceful transition of power, and a childhood fascination with the adornments of rebellion, provide validated intelligence that progressives have even forgotten the warning of John Kennedy, that those who foolishly ride the back of the tiger, far to often wake up surprised inside.
Yet, in a growing humanist secularism, the popular vote in 2016, as well as the naïve infatuation, amongst a miseducated plebiscite that has embraced the proletarian hopes for some utopian ideal that has never been great, validate the skepticism expressed by Benjamin Franklin that a popularly elected government might be able to keep a democratic republic. The huddled masses today no longer "yearn to breathe free" as a priority, are unaware of Lord Acton's warning that all "power tends to corrupt, absolute power absolutely," and are doomed to repeat a forgotten history.
This young lady did not do what probably most of us would do when hit by devastating news. She did what we teach Rangers: improvise and overcome. Perhaps that was because her daddy was a Ranger and raised his children with those same values. And, by the time I met her, she had graduated from college, and had already received her masters degree, and was working with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Plan Be. Put that out in formation, as we say in the Army.
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2017
Webb participated in the following survey conducted by the Vote411 Voter Guide. The questions provided by the guide appear bolded, and Webb's responses follow below.
How would you improve the process for realigning school district boundaries to help deal with the projected overcrowding and improve diversity?
| “ | In the next decade it is projected that over 10,000 children will join the classroom attendance rolls of our public schools that are already over capacity, and, if we can reliably extrapolate from current and existing demographic data, we can expect that unlike the population growth that has continued to increase the numbers of persons of a majority culture in our municipal population, the majority of the children who will begin education in our public schools will be children of color, who are statistically vulnerable to affliction by a persistent and devastating achievement gap, To immediately confront that emerging crisis I have submitted a proposal to the School Board to invite a successful sponsor of charter schools to create a reverse magnet high school, focusing on raising the achievement of the majority of the kids in our public schools who , unfortunately, fall below the mean. Any other solution will inevitably replicate our past failures.[8] | ” |
| —Mike Webb (2017)[9] | ||
What changes, if any, are needed to ensure students develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate political and civil discourse including "fake news"?
| “ | That process must begin with leadership by example to establish a command climate where truth, guided by rigorous research and disciplined scrutiny is the hallmark. A recent controversy regarding the decision to rename our schools with Washington-Lee High School on center stage provides an opportunity for leaders to demonstrate what right looks like, and I have submitted a proposal to the School Board to sponsor a panel discussion on the life of Robert E. Lee in all of its complexity so that we can truly learn, unencumbered by our own prejudice and unwitting ignorance. The current petition to change the name contains only 3 assertions presented as fact but that are blatantly false. Yet, to date, the Board has refused to acknowledge my request and the press and surrogates for my opponent have decided to villify me as "a white supremacist." Ad hominem attacks are, by definition, a logical fallacy, but they rule the discourse in our political debates.[8] | ” |
| —Mike Webb (2017)[9] | ||
How would budget cuts to education at the national level impact Arlington schools and curriculum?
| “ | In practical and demonstrated effect, as exemplified in the recent passage of the education budget for the Arlington County Public Schools for Fiscal Year 2018, national budget cuts will result in our leaders continuing to conduct themselves as whining children, engaging in sensationalized and partisan argument. It is an empirically provable fact that our budget, in excess of a half a billion dollars is bloated and replete with wasteful spending. And our leaders need to learn to act as stewards entrusted with our public fisc. To spend $17 million to guarantee transportation to students K-12 who live only a mile away and in a safe community 26 miles square doesn't prepare our high school bound students to graduate to college and becomes esssntially a jobs program promoting increasing largesse. I have submitted proposals that have gone in acknowledged to align expenditures with our mission and objectives.[8] | ” |
| —Mike Webb (2017)[9] | ||
What will be your top two priorities for your term of office and what data supports these priorities?
| “ | My first priority when elected to the Arlington County Public School Board will be to remedy the oldest problem in this public school division which adversely affects the majority of the children in our public school district and that represents an existential threat to this community: the achievement gap, currently a numerated but consistently unappropriated boilerplate “priority” and “standard” in the Arlington County Public School budget towards which our leaders profess to be “continually striving to eliminate” in an effort to adhere to the state constitutional amendment mandate to create “a quality education for all students.” My second priority, as I stated at the outset of my campaign, is to be “the education precedent,” speaking the truth and refusing to recant because to do so is neither wise nor safe. Let's make America great, again and let's begin that task in the most educated and affluent community in the nation to set the example for others to follow.[8] | ” |
| —Mike Webb (2017)[9] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2020
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Certified Candidates in Ballot Order for June 12, 2018 Primary Elections," accessed January 15, 2019
- ↑ Virginia's 8th District Republican Committee, "8th District Convention is CANCELED – We have our nominee!" February 27, 2018
- ↑ Arlington County Voting and Elections, "2017 Elections," accessed June 14, 2017
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports: Search Committees," accessed January 17, 2018
- ↑ Facebook, "Mike Webb for Congress," May 8, 2016
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "List of Candidates," accessed September 8, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Vote411 Voter Guide, "M.D. "Mike" Webb," accessed October 16, 2017
