Bounding Overwatch: Black Lives Matter?

Progressives in NOVA Prepare to Oppose Federal Voting Rights Laws?

[FOB FREEDOM, May 14, 2023] Any station? Any station? Do you read? Over.

Reporting live from the world’s newest banana republic, . . .

In December 2015, concerned citizens, posing as anonymous trolls claimed that none of his innovations appeared to have worked before, and, perhaps, they had taken as gospel the claims of the local curmudgeon Scott McCafferty, who was certain that Major Mike Webb had been running for Congress since the 1980s, an empirical impossibility since he did not attain the right to vote until 1988, when Arlington was electing its first Negro to the Arlington County Board. And now, the childhood protege of a legendary civil rights and criminal defense attorney, the grandson of a franchise martyr who had shared with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a friend of his father, a childhood spiritual mentor in Dr. Benjamin Elijah “Born to Rebel” Mays, the former President of Morehouse College is demonstrating why the words “commando”, “onslaught” and “scorched earth” come to the minds of analysts and war-hardened Arlington Democrats in a fiercely competitive challenge against Virginia Democratic Caucus House Majority Whip Alfonso Lopez, who, suddenly decided to ditch plans to run in Republican-leaning Danville’s 49th House District, to return to Arlington to seek re-election amongst voters in the newly designated Third House District.

Arlington GOP has yet to identify any candidates to seek the local offices and had pretty much rejected Webb early in his first contest for political office in Northern Virginia, when he had sought the nomination of the VA8GOP in a race in which he had been the putative front runner in the press against the incumbent Don Beyer, Jr. in the divisive Presidential election year of 2016, when environmentalist Charles Hernick went on to capture the nomination and break an all-time record for vote percentage loss in a presidential election year for the GOP, which had lost the seat to Jim Moran in 1990, losing ground with voters in every year since.

And, the guns blazing, kamikaze godson of the first Negro House Democrats Majority Whip, Rev. William Gray, III, wasn’t singing the blues after his early foray with Virginia Republicans, moving on to a race for the Arlington Public School Board the following year, while Hernick, like a long line of one and done Republican hopefuls in Arlington, took a new, high paying job, left politics and relocated, in consolation for their losses.

In 2016, the Alexandria Connection wrote:

“The loudest voice of opposition so far has been Webb, a Republican and a retired army officer. Webb has attacked Beyer on everything from climate change to Beyer’s handling of minority groups within his district. 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.

‘I have a straight conservative message,’ said Webb. ‘I’m not watering that down. I’m not a progressive or a liberal.’

Webb’s priorities sync up with his image as a true-red conservative.”

But that did not prevent VA8GOP regulars, like former Arlington GOP Chairman Charlie Keller, former Chief of Staff for Congressman Bob Goodlatte, from describing Webb as a big liberal, and encouraging him to join the Democrat Party, standing to lead a round of applause. Current Arlington GOP Chairman Matthew Colt Hurtt would describe Webb’s international notoriety as him finally getting the attention he deserved, until Webb appeared as a headliner on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was featured in Rolling Stone and had even been called “refreshing” by Noah Trevor.

In the 2017 race, in which Webb would defeat Lopez’s Republican challenger, Adam Roosevelt, in just about every precinct in which they ran together, the Alexandria Connection again noticed the difference between the “unabashed conservative” and the establishment Republicans in Northern Virginia, reporting:

“While the event was nonpartisan, its de facto hue was blue.

Seven of the 11 speakers were Democrats, plus another ‘progressive independent.’ The reason is partly that the lower end of the ticket includes no Republicans or otherwise right-leaning candidates, except Mike Webb for the Arlington County School Board. Webb, though running as an independent, ran for office previously as a Republican. Though invited, none of the five Republican or Libertarian candidates for offices pertaining to Alexandria and Arlington attended; only Gillespie sent a representative.

Some attendees said their top issues included Black Lives Matter, President Donald Trump, gun violence, climate change, the school-to-prison pipeline, education. One said ‘taxes’ but didn’t expound. Asked when Virginia would ‘do the right thing’ by lifting certain aid restrictions, Del. Mark Levine (D-45) said, ‘When we have 51 Democrats in the General Assembly.’ Many in the audience applauded and laughed. No one asked about certain flagship Republican issues, like curtailing government spending or abortion.

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The only two conservative speakers — Webb and Sailor — are black. So is Adam Roosevelt, who, though he did not attend, is the only Republican candidate in any of Alexandria and Arlington’s House of Delegate districts. Only two black Democrats spoke at the forum, one of whom stood in for Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-49), who is not black. The other Democratic speakers were white men, albeit who specifically addressed racial equity: Bryan Porter, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Alexandria, and Attorney General Mark Herring both said they’re proud of minority hiring in their offices.

Webb supports charter schools and said that Arlington’s worst performing high school is also its most diverse.”

And, while Congressman Don Beyer was able to boast about his victory over VA8GOP nominee Micah Edmond and his challengers in the Democratic primary that nobody else had his resume, Webb can boast, especially on civil rights in Arlington’s most diverse district, that nobody can beat his record on civil rights.

“In retirement, I have had the opportunity practically handed to me by persons who would describe themselves to friends as progressive. Who else has argued about the rights of unrepresented litigants all the way to the Supreme Court? I was the first litigant in over 30 years to petition for removal in a criminal case in the Eastern District of Virginia, a provision recognized by the Supreme Court during the integration of lunch counters in Atlanta, and apparently not even our oldest and boldest civil rights organization leaders at the NAACP could remember that we actually had that law. When Governor Northam basically tried to place gay men at risk in a pandemic, who sued the Governor? When the Arlington Public Schools decided to discriminate against persons of color in choosing a new name for Washington-Lee High School, who brought two cases to the State Supreme Court? Not even the Washington-Lee Alumni Association, and I am not from Arlington, and never attended public school. When the doors of churches were closed, when persons were forced to get vaccinated to worship, who took those cases to court? Family Research Council? No. And now I have two cases, one in Alexandria and one in Chesterfield, on the infections of two pastors who had been infected with a virus you had a better chance winning on a two-number combination on the roulette table, and do you see social justice ministers out marching, or, better, grabbing an attorney to go to court? Anyone tithing, or lifting a love offering to finance that litigation at those churches? As Reverend King said, groups tend to be less moral than individuals, and I am definitely an individual,” remarked Webb.

The petition for writ of mandamus to compel the appointment of federal observers filed today in the federal court in DC poses an intriguing challenge for Lopez and Arlington Democrats, forced to oppose a federal voting rights act, as well as arguing against the creation of several seasonal employee jobs by OPM, with their own federal job announcements to run during the extended voting period, a perfect opportunity for area students interested in participating in politics, and being a part of history. Generally, because of the skills of the former Legal Specialist for the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, even major law firms, like Perkins Coie, LLP, seek to find some technicality to avoid a confrontation one-on-one in a courtroom with him, as the Alexandria Prosecutor, Bryan Porter quickly learned after Webb’s participation in a Red Rose Rescue in December 2017.

One thing is for certain, Virginia has never seen a politician like Webb.

Note: grandiosity is a classic sign of bipolar disorder, and we don't want to hurt his feelings lest he go to “that place”, so familiar to Arlington Public School Board Member, Latina Cristina Torres-Diaz.

Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim-cherry. A pandemic agent as lucky can be. Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim--achoo. The luck'll rub off when I bump fists with you. Or blow me a kiss, and catch COVID-2.

Your elected representative is called your elected representative for a reason; and Martin Luther King and Jesus never got elected.

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