Whew, North Carolina's Winning GOP Nominee for Governor Sure Has Said Some Things
Earlier title via Yahoo! News: The Next Governor of North Carolina Could Be a Holocaust Denier Who Hates Pretty Much Everybody
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Source: Slate
Whew, North Carolinas Winning GOP Nominee for Governor Sure Has Said Some Things
Meet Super Tuesdays breakout offensive candidate.
BY MOLLY OLMSTEAD
MARCH 06, 2024 1:03 AM
Mark Robinson, who easily won North Carolinas Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, has the misfortune of having spent years on Facebook without thinking about his future political career. The current lieutenant governor of the stateand the first Black man to hold the positionwas a furniture manufacturer who was launched into politics in 2018 when he gave a viral pro-gun speech at a city council meeting in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. Two years later he was elected to his current office. He will face Democrat Josh Stein, the states attorney general, in the general election in November. The race is expected to be extremely close.
He has not, in the time since his profile rose, worked to purge his social media of controversial content. Nor has he played things safe when speaking at churches and other public events in recorded sermons and speeches. So it doesnt take a lot of probing to find how Robinson really feels about certain hot-button issues.
Robinson, who is also into conspiracy theories, has voiced enough offensive comments for a full accounting to be too unwieldy. But even a sampling of his views like the one belownot a comprehensive listshowcases just what kind of candidate North Carolina Republicans just selected to be their standard-bearer this November.
Abortion
I dont care if youre 24 hours pregnant. I dont care if youre 24 weeks pregnant. I dont care. If you kill that youngun, it is murder. (Robinson has said he paid for an abortion in 1989 and maintained that that decision was wrong.)
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Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/north-carolina-primary-results-mark-robinson-governor.html
Diamond_Dog
(32,168 posts)Does this chowderhead have a serious chance at being your next Governor?