House – VA 5th – Dr. Cameron Webb

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Democrat running for open seat in a district that includes Charlottesville and runs from DC exurbs to North Carolina border

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37-year-old Dr. Cameron Webb, if elected, would become the first black physician to have a vote in Congress. Cameron and his wife, an ER doctor, both grew up in Virginia.

After graduating from University of Virginia, getting his medical and law degrees, and completing his medical residency and internship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, Cameron was tapped by President Obama for the White House Fellowship. He served on the White House Health Care Team and also worked on President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, where he helped tackle issues in education, workforce development and criminal justice reform.

In 2016 Cameron was named by the National Minority Quality Forum as one of the “40 Under 40 Leaders in Health”, honoring influential young minority leaders making a difference in health care.

A practicing physician in Charlottesville, Cameron treats patients (including COVID-19 patients) as a general internist, teaches students and serves as the Director of Health Policy and Equity at University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. He is known as a passionate champion for health equity and is committed to advocating for the health needs of underserved and marginalized communities. Cameron says his work had always been at the intersection of healthcare and social justice, which is what prompted his venture into politics. He said he looks at healthcare in the United States through his lens as a physician – not through the lens of a politician. One Virginia newspaper said this year: “… [Dr. Webb] approaches policy problems the same pragmatic and evidence-based way he approaches diagnoses and treatments as a physician.”

Cameron’s priorities in Congress would include COVID-19 recovery, a healthcare system that is accountable to people rather than pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies, protecting the environment and addressing climate change, and strengthening education.

Cameron has been endorsed by End Citizens United, the Virginia AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood, League of Conservation Voters, and the Sierra Club.

Cameron’s opponent, extreme-right Republican Bob Good, is a former athletics official at Liberty University, until recently led by Jerry Falwell Jr. Good describes himself as a “biblical conservative” who wants to return Judeo-Christian values to Washington. He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, make English the country’s official language, and end birthright citizenship. Good has faced pressure from Republicans and Democrats to condemn a campaign surrogate for racist and homophobic comments in a video from several years ago. Good opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest. He said he would have voted against the coronavirus relief bills that gave direct aid to working families, expanded unemployment insurance, funded hospitals and health care providers, and provided small businesses the help they needed to survive. One right-leaning commentator in Virginia said this about Good: “Nobody minds that he is conservative, it’s that he is on the fringe of the conservative. He is so far to the right that people are starting to get a little creeped out by it.” Good beat incumbent Republican Denver Riggleman in the 2020 primary, after a party convention process that Riggleman and others have called corrupt. Good had attacked Riggleman during the primary race for having officiated at the same-sex wedding of former campaign volunteers.

This sprawling district is heavily rural and traditionally Republican. But in 2008 a Democrat did win this seat in an upset. Because Cameron is such a strong candidate, and because his opponent is so extreme, this race is now very competitive. President Trump won this district by 11 points in 2016, but with our help Cameron can win.