Congressman’s campaign calls it a publicity stunt

The U.S. Senate candidates will hold the first debate of the campaign today in a traditional setting — before the summer convention of the Virginia Bar Association at The Homestead in Hot Springs.

One of the first things you see in Sen. Jim Webb’s office is a picture from November 9, 2006. Webb is smiling and raising his Marine son’s combat boots in victory, having just been elected to the Senate. But in a book being released Monday, Webb writes of that moment: “I literally felt like I was stepping out of a sewer.“