{"id":379100,"date":"2010-03-02T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77987"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:42","slug":"4-jim-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379100","title":{"rendered":"4. Jim Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77988\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 490px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/webb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77988\" title=\"Webb\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/webb-480x339.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) (EPA\/ZUMApress.com)\" width=\"480\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) (EPA\/ZUMApress.com)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>All eyes were on Webb in 2006 when the populist-preaching Democrat <a id=\"g92t\" title=\"won the Virginia Senate race\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/08\/AR2006110802512_pf.html\">won the Virginia Senate  race<\/a>. His win was a real coup for the Democratic party, which was  then just beginning to form a plan to make political inroads in the  state. Webb, a former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan  administration, is currently serving in the Senate and will be up for  re-election in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Yeas: Webb takes a populist tack when it  comes to the economy. &#8220;I was never comfortable with the Republican Party  on issues of economic fairness and social justice,&#8221; Webb <a id=\"s72q\" title=\"told US News &amp; World Report in 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/12\/21\/usnews\/whispers\/main3639498.shtml\">told US News  &amp; World Report in 2007<\/a>. Webb often spoke on the campaign trail  of his mother&#8217;s poor upbringing in Arkansas during the Depression and  his Scot-Irish heritage, a subject on which he authored several books.  Both of these aspects of his background serve to connect him to the  &#8220;everyman.&#8221; He cites his family history as one of the reasons why he  continues his fight against globalization and corporate excess from his  seat in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Nays: Well, after you get past the populist  family history, Webb holds a not-so-populist background, touting a J.D.  from Georgetown University and a lucrative book-writing career. Webb  continues to align with the GOP on some issues, including 2nd amendment  rights, which helps him in his home state &#8212; but may not be so  attractive to nationwide Democrats. Webb also <a id=\"yxv:\" title=\"drew some blowback during the 2006 campaign for an  essay he wrote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/13\/AR2006091302301.html\">drew some blowback during the 2006 campaign for an essay  he wrote<\/a> in the &#8217;70&#8217;s about women in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77983\/3-sherrod-brown\">3. Sherrod Brown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) (EPA\/ZUMApress.com) All eyes were on Webb in 2006 when the populist-preaching Democrat won the Virginia Senate race. His win was a real coup for the Democratic party, which was then just beginning to form a plan to make political inroads in the state. Webb, a former secretary of the Navy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}