Today “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” is proud to present our 551st original profile, where we’re going to talk about Mike Webb, a 2016 candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District. When he first announced his run for Congress, Mike Webb was considered a potential wild card in the GOP Primary for the seat against Charles Hernick, because of his online presence and apparent savvy in social media with the proof being that at one point, Webb had the fastest growing Facebook page of any Republican running in 2016.
Fast forward five months from that report to April of 2016, and things didn’t look as promising, after Webb failed to file his FEC report on time… which he suspiciously blamed on a “targeted cyber-attack” whose origins or execution was never exactly explained. Webb began raving about online critics with user names like “GOP Establishment”, wished people on his Facebook page a “Happy 4/20” (because so many Republicans are fans of marijuana legalization) and could never produce evidence to prove any of the online harassment, criminal or otherwise. On May 7th, at the Virginia GOP convention, they named Charles Hernick their candidate for the general election on May 7th. Webb wasn’t giving up, though, and vowed he would still run for office as an Independent.
Nine days later, Mike Webb made the news cycle by using all of his online savvy to have posted an image of his own computer where he showed a Google search of Curzon Staffing Agency in his district to call them out for, in his mind, “pranking him” with a job offer on his Facebook page. As DJ Khaled might say, Mike Webb “played himself”, and may have been playing with himself, too. Because the other tabs open on the screenshot on Mike Webb’s internet browser included two tabs that had links to separate pornographic videos. The screenshot was up for almost half a day before Webb took it down, and then tried explaining his inquiries into adult entertainment as an “empirical inquiry”, and promising that his political career was “far from over”.
Mike Webb again failed to file the proper paperwork to appear on the ballot, even as an independent, and we have serious doubts that his political career will not just end as a hilarious anecdote, despite what he says.
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