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October Surprise from 2016’s #ExpectAMiracle Congressional Candidate in Down Ballot School Board Race

WASHINGTON (October 30, 2025)—In Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, an affluent enclave across the Potomac from the nation’s capital, where 48% of residents are minorities, bookies wouldn’t lay odds on anyone other than a Democrat picking up a seat in Congress, and so, with less than a week remaining until game day, in a congressional seat in which the incumbent has easily captured over 75% of the vote for decades, conventional wisdom says this is a safe seat. And announcing for reelection in June, the incumbent, luxury car dealership mogul, Don Beyer, Jr., may not, again, be “taking anything for granted”, as he had announced in his first challenge after succeeding Jim “The Intimidator” Moran, during the year in which the kingmaker congressional district had blocked a solid South from being handed to Donald Trump. Beyer, who turned 75 on June 20, has been reelected five times, and is billing himself as Trump’s most vocal critic during his first term, and as a proven fighter to stand up to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their corrupt Trump Administration cronies to defend our community. He says, “I am seeking reelection to Congress because I am that fighter, and I know how to do the important work that begins with retaking power in Virginia and in Congress.” But, with education issues ranking high in the minds of voters going into the midterm elections, one down ballot campaign is making waves to cause some concern for analysts, warranting the words “commando, scorched earth and onslaught to come to their minds, when referring to the battle-hardened Arlington Democrats.

In the past, one not a serious option, pesky and fringe independent had somehow, singlehandedly, soared to success on attracting viewers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, even without a political party endorsement, earning the scorn of then Arlington/Falls Church Young Republicans Chairman Matthew Colt “Hurtt Locker” Hurtt, who took to Twitter immediately to announce, when the “ever-interesting Mike Webb” achieved international notoriety, remarking that Webb was finally getting the attention he deserved. And, just s shortly thereafter, Webb had become an ABC TV headliner, a show opener, exchanging barbs with a late-night television talk show, and earning Jimmy Kimmel’s endorsement to become Trump’s “vice” president, just as early voting began, when the Arlington GOP announced their endorsement for the open seat on the school board, Webb’s website began to catch fire, now luring around a hundred unique visitors per day, and now bounding over 1,500 on the 30-day rolling count, on a trajectory to exceed 1,600 before the votes are counted next Tuesday, in the top ten percent of political websites in the world, ranked with National Review, POLITICO, Ballotpedia, ProPublica and The Atlantic, a class for which few politicians qualify for acceptance, predominated by those who provide information, and not just sales talk.

Unaware of the marketing savvy of the alumnus of the top undergraduate business program in Virginia, Dr. James “Vell” Rives IV, M.D., had even attempted to coax Webb to drop out of the contest, in exchange for the anticipated publicity. If you type Webb’s full name in a Boolean query on Google, tens of pages referring only to him appear, surpassing the internet footprint of one local realtor at REMAX, a 30-year veteran in that business, with a brand signature moving truck, while Webb has only operated on the periphery of NOVA politics for a decade. Rives had tried to convince Webb that they were so similar most voters could not distinguish between the two men on the ballot; however, according to Google Analytics, over 53% of unique visitors in the past month are going to the internet to locate “major mike webb”, brand name identification, “first in mind” recognition, that companies spend millions to gain. Miraculously, Webb has posted no signs, run no advertisements or anything image consultants and marketing experts claim are the methods to use to come from nowhere and become known. And, going into midterms, Webb is quoting Watergate’s Howard Baker: Don’t count me in, but don’t count me out.

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