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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Robin L. Webb (b. September 6, 1960) is a Democratic member of the Kentucky State Senate, representing District 18. Webb was first elected to the chamber in 2009. Webb is running for re-election in the primary on May 22, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018.

Webb served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009.

Webb earned her A.A.S. from Morehead State University in 1983, her B.S. from Morehead State University in 1983 and her J.D. from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 1986. Her professional experience includes working as a coal miner for Ruth Contracting, attorney for the Natural Resources Cabinet of the Surface Mine Litigation Unit, attorney and Sole Practitioner and General Counsel for AEI Resources, Incorporated (later known as Horizon Natural Resources).

Education

  • BS, Morehead State University
  • JD, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, 1983-1986
  • AAS, Morehead State University, 1978-1983

Professional Experience

  • BS, Morehead State University
  • JD, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, 1983-1986
  • AAS, Morehead State University, 1978-1983
  • Owner, Robin L. Webb Law Office, 1986-present
  • General Counsel, AEI Resources, Incorporated, 1999-2002
  • Attorney, Natural Resources Cabinet, Surface Mine Litigation Unit, 1986-1988
  • Coal Miner, Ruth Contracting, 1981-1986

Political Experience

  • BS, Morehead State University
  • JD, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, 1983-1986
  • AAS, Morehead State University, 1978-1983
  • Owner, Robin L. Webb Law Office, 1986-present
  • General Counsel, AEI Resources, Incorporated, 1999-2002
  • Attorney, Natural Resources Cabinet, Surface Mine Litigation Unit, 1986-1988
  • Coal Miner, Ruth Contracting, 1981-1986
  • Senator, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate, District 18, 2009-present
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate, District 18, 2018
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 96, 1999-2009

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Member, Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate

Former Member, Special Subcommittee on Energy, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on 2016-2018 Budget Preparation and Submission, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Agriculture Committee

Member, Appropriations and Revenue Committee

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice and Judiciary

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice and Judiciary

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation

Member, Joint Committee on Agriculture

Member, Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue

Member, Joint Committee on Judiciary

Member, Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

Member, Joint Oversight Committee on Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund

Member, Judiciary Committee

Member, Natural Resources and Energy Committee

Member, Public Water and Wastewater System Infrastructure Task Force

Member, Subcommittee on Equine Issues

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • BS, Morehead State University
  • JD, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, 1983-1986
  • AAS, Morehead State University, 1978-1983
  • Owner, Robin L. Webb Law Office, 1986-present
  • General Counsel, AEI Resources, Incorporated, 1999-2002
  • Attorney, Natural Resources Cabinet, Surface Mine Litigation Unit, 1986-1988
  • Coal Miner, Ruth Contracting, 1981-1986
  • Senator, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate, District 18, 2009-present
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky Senate, District 18, 2018
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 96, 1999-2009
  • Member, Advisory Board, Morehead State University Extended Campus
  • Member, ALERT
  • Board Member, Ashland Community College Technical School
  • Board Member, Carter County Fair
  • Board Member, Carter Recreational Alliance
  • Coach, Carter Youth Soccer League
  • Member, Ducks Unlimited
  • Chair, Equine Law, Kentucky Bar Association
  • Member, Executive Committee, National Assembly of Sportsmans Caucus
  • Member, Grayson Chamber of Commerce
  • Coach, Grayson MTXE Youth Basketball
  • Board Member/Coach, Grayson Youth Soccer
  • Member, Kentucky Bar Association
  • Trustee, Kentucky Bar Association Foundation Board of Trustees
  • Member, Kentucky Hospital Association
  • Commission Member, Kentucky Law Assistance Program, Kentucky Bar Association
  • Founder/Co-Chair, Kentucky Sportsman's Caucus
  • President/Treasurer/Secretary/National Committee Member, Kentucky Young Democrats
  • Former President, Morehead State University Alumni Board
  • General Counsel, National Committee Woman
  • Member, National Rifle Association (NRA)
  • Member, National Wild Turkey Federation
  • General Counsel, Young Democrats of America
  • Section Chair, Criminal Law Committee, 2006
  • Member, Kentucky Bar Committee on Domestic Violence, 1998-2006
  • Member, Kentucky Jail Standards Committee, 2000-2002

Other Info

Favorite Book:

"Born Fighting," by United States Senator Jim Webb and the Bible, Book of Psalms.

Favorite Movie:

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" and "The Outlaw Josie Wales."

Favorite Quote:

"If I were to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right will make no difference." - Abraham Lincoln

Favorite TV Shows:

"Criminal Minds" and "Deadliest Catch."

Favorite Type of Music:

Contemporary Christian, country, bluegrass.

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Hunting, fishing, horseback riding and showing, motorcycle riding and spending time with my family.

Policy Positions

Kentucky State Legislative Election 2006 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- My second pregnancy I was told to terminate and would not live, after much prayer, I chose to deliver without incident. My experience speaks to my position.

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status

4. Environment
- Slightly Increase

5. Health care
- Greatly Increase

6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Status

8. Welfare
- Maintain Status

9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Decrease

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Greatly Decrease

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

8. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

9. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes

13. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No

14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Kentucky governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Kentucky state senators and representatives?
- No

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Kentucky are closed?
- No

9. Should Kentucky recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No Answer

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support the death penalty in Kentucky.
- No Answer

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer

5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer

9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X

10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

11. Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism.
- X

12. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- No Answer

13. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X

14. Allow police to ticket motorists for not wearing their safety belts even if they have committed no other traffic violation.
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- Funding for drug treatments & mental health intervention & treatment

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer

3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X

5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

6. Include sexual orientation in Kentucky's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies? decisions on:

1. Public employment
- Yes

2. State college and university admissions
- No Answer

3. State contracting
- No Answer

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment & Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- X

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

4. Provide incentives for improvements to Kentucky's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X

5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X

3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X

4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

6. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X

5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- X

6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Kentucky.
- No Answer

7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X

3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X

6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer