
Substantive Issues
Hardly a newcomer, at least according to Inside NOVA, "Major Mike Webb, who has floated around the periphery of the Northern Virginia political scene for nearly the past decade, qualified for the School Board ballot." According to the Alexandria Connection, " Webb’s campaign has started as grassroots as they come in the 21st century, with a Facebook page, and then local farmer’s markets and churches when that started gaining a following."
Not many candidates for public office happen to receive a letter from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican, “regarding the grace that Almighty God has bestowed”, and not many people receive a letter from the President, acknowledging their unique “passion”, encouraging them “to remain an active participant in helping to write the next chapter of the American story”, and requesting their personal “courage and dedication at this critical time”, but, at least according to Blue Virginia, the words “[o]nslaught, commando, and scorched earth come to mind”, “usually employed in relation to the fall campaign when yet another Republican, an ‘independent’ who is really a Republican, or a real independent (often a pesky candidate who finds a way onto the ballot almost every year) is about to be drubbed in an election in the small but intensely political county just across the Potomac from the nation’s capital.”