2023 Candidate Profile: Major Mike Webb Running For House District 3

ARLINGTON/ALEXANDRIA, VA — Major Mike Webb, who served in the U.S. Army, is running for election in the newly drawn 3rd District in the Nov. 7 general election.

Webb, an independent, is running against Del. Alfonso Lopez (D) in the general election for the House seat. Because of mandated redistricting that happened after the 2020 Census, 78 percent of the residents in the new 3rd District live in Arlington and 22 percent live in the City of Alexandria.

Early voting for the general election began on Friday, Sept. 22. More information on how to vote is available from the Arlington County Elections Office and the City of Alexandria Office of Voter Registrations and Elections.

Patch asked the two candidates running for the new 3rd House district to fill out a candidate questionnaire with the same questions. Here are Webb's responses:

Name

Major Mike Webb

Primary Website

https://majormikewebb.substack.com/

Education

The Bergen School, Saint Peter's Prep, Washington & Lee University

Occupation

Retired Biological Warfare Planner, Federal Whistleblower and Litigation Hobbyist

Previous or Current Elected or Appointed Office

Student Body Secretary at Washington & Lee University (presumptive stolen election); First Year Law Representative at Washington & Lee University Law School (presumptive stolen election)

My top priority in the next session of the General Assembly is _______, and this is what I intend to do about it.

Unlike most voters in a community where apparently "fire fighters" is the accepted spelling of "firefighters" for educator approved candidates, and in which, despite only one of 96 students in the Class of 2022 receiving an acceptance letter to Harvard University, an elite Ivy League college that was not far out of reach for me, but finds over 70% of residents vaccinated against a biological agent that two credible bookend studies had confirmed to possess a Harvard acceptance rate chance for infection for the first variant, my priority is education, in line with what a recent poll by Mary Washington University suggests is the major issue for Virginia voters, but not a topic of discussion at the last two candidate forums, not even the online panel hosted by the NAACP, many of whom may be members of at least two of three local Black Protestant churches I sued, under the FACE Act and compelled into capitulation to drop their vaccine mandates for in person worship, a victory on the heels of my similar success against the Veterans Administration on mask mandates.

What are the critical differences between you and the other candidate?

Some talk the talk and some walk the walk. My opponent is a lobbyist with a law degree, but I have neither a degree nor a license and successfully had a half dozen cases at the Supreme Court for certiorari in less than a year, during a once in a lifetime pandemic. I've been on late night, in special operations, volunteered for the infantry, not just standing with the people in the sovereign nation of Kuwait in safe, social distance, and my record is all substance and not just the flash. However, that's what unions are for.

What makes representing Arlington in the House of Delegates unique compared to delegates who represent other parts of Virginia?

According to the Washington Post, despite recent press reports regarding Virginia Beach, Arlington Democrats have delivered the winning margin for statewide elections for over two decades in the most reliable Democrat congressional district in Virginia, and the Whitest Democrat majority district in the South, and it shows in our NAACP membership, not to mention the White Citizens Council, by another name, which chose the offensive name that caused the renaming of a high school similar in name to a private college that 36 Wakefield Warriors still wanted to attend, and woefully failed.

If you just want a face of color, all's I can say is I ain't really Black. Ask my Mammy, a fine colored woman who raised me.

What are some of the concerns and ideas that you've heard from Arlingtonians that have resonated with you as you have campaigned that you will bring to Richmond if elected in November?

Well, while I have heard a lot about the colorblindness in this community where hate has no home, you'd be surprised how many are apparently deaf. I have been knocking on doors since January and I have seen people sitting around the dinner table not aware, apparently, I was ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door. Of course, the most popular is, "I'm good, Brotha, and maybe it's long covid, because I reviewed our family pictures and I don't remember seeing any of these relatives."

Describe other issues that define your campaign platform for the House of Delegates.

While unreported in the press, we have several litigations, one brought against my opponent, and the Arlington Democrats under the Voting Rights Act. And in courts since 2017 as a litigator, I've been very busy addressing the issues confronted by the poor, especially those without an attorney. We even got a case about an absurd procedure on denial of essentially a credit application in federal court to proceed with a case, avoiding the $402 fee. However, if denied, you have to pay $505 to the appeals court to review the decision. Apparently voters in this most diverse district are satisfied, but I believe it is ludicrous and did something about it. We also have a case now proceeding from Alexandria in which the prosecutor asserted an absolute prosecutorial discretion. In layman terms, if you're trying to get your franchise back because of a felony conviction, you went to jail and got prosecuted because Bryan Porter wanted you in jail, and if you're dumb enough to re-elect him, you're obviously not my voter.

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