On Tuesday, Mark Robinson (R) won the Republican nomination for Governor of North Carolina. Robinson, currently North Carolina's lieutenant governor, is one of the most radical gubernatorial nominees in modern history. He has a well-documented record of promoting conspiracy theories, maligning LGBTQ people, using anti-Semitic tropes, and demeaning women.
Educating our voting public about the truth that Mark Robinson endangers on all issues is a challenge that both sides must take on. If we are to be a sane country that stands for true freedom, Robinson must be fully revealed as a dumb fool and a danger to anyone his life touches. You, Judd, Tesnim, and Rebecca are doing exactly what needs to be done. I would like to hear and see famous black people with big voices weigh in and stand up with their talents.
We can't really be headed to having our country destroyed by the increasingly babbling incoherence of Trump, and other unbalanced and angry people who want to run for office so that they can control large groups of witless sheep! Or, ???
Pick a corporation, find out who is on their Board of Directors, write them individually condemning this and for extra credit write an LTE to the corporation’s home town paper calling them out by name.
Instead of letting them collect fat paychecks, let the sunshine hit them. Can’t hurt.
What amazes me the most is how so many people aren't paying attention to the fact that these hateful, angry people could care less about them or their families or their freedom. They are mindlessly and angrily giving votes to people who will make their lives harder while solving none of their problems.
When Trump endorsed him, he referred to Robinson as MLK on steroids.
As for the corporate donors. Usual cast of characters but no AT&T or big law firm from VA?
The NC state legislature has become controlled by the same type of Republican as Robinson. They never saw a district that gerrymanding didn't help. From my early years experience following NC, the Jesse Helms Repub gang ruled the roost. A million new and diverse people have moved to NC in the past decade mostly to the big cities like Charlotte Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem.
This is why when I preach about 43 state legislatures and Governor's being GOP controlled you should be very worried.
We stopped Youngkin's quest for a GOP General Assembly last November in VA.
Gerrymandering keeps then in power. I have supported Stein from next door even as he had the Mark Meadows voting mess after 2020. He has handled his job as AG like a champ. Send his campaign support through Act Blue. We proved with Warnock and Ossof in GA grassroots small donor help from everywhere can really make a difference.
I hope he defeats this awful man for the well-being of NC and the US.
Get the message to them. I wish that we had laws in the USA of not allowing people whose ideology violates our constitution to run or sit on our courts.
Sorry, but Mr. Robinson sounds like a close cousin to George Santos as he pursues the policy to tell people what they want to hear and they'll accept you at face value and vote for you without any sort of vetting or evaluation of the veracity of your claims or the personal history you supply. Since he seems to be practicing massive amount of psychological projection (as dysfunctional right wingers and fundamentalists generally do), I suspect its only a matter of time before we discover he's a sexual predator or "wide stance" restroom customer.
Anyone so filled with hate is clearly using that barrage of B.S. as a smokescreen to hide some very serious malfeasance or mental illness.
Also vital for this story: Mark Robinson is accused of some $500,000 in campaign finance violations, but the investigation by the state board of elections has never been released or finalized. Many think it is so damning that the Board is simply unwilling to release it. He also has multiple personal bankruptcies. So the comparison to Santos is particularly apt.
Corporate political “donations” are legalized bribery, plain and simple.
How many of us can afford to compete with the vast sums of money multinational companies throw at campaigns via their super PACs and political organizations?
Whose interests do you think these bought elected officials are going to address first and foremost?
How else would antisemites, fascists and conspiracy theorists like Mark Robinson rise to political power were it not for the corporate money pumped into their campaigns?
Democracy was lost long ago. We live in a plutocracy. And soon perhaps, God forbid, an autocracy.
Having lived in NC for many years and having known many good and bad national and local politicians and movers and shakers personally from around the country, including Mr. MAGA, for well over 50 years...the thought of Robinson as Governor should scare the h-e double tooth picks, out any semi intelligent soul be he a farmer, small business owner, public servant, physician, etc. Basically everyone in state with the exception of Republican politicians and their big money funders. He represents a major step backwards in any type of progressive growth and incapable, unfit, unworthy of any type of positive population leadership role...which is exactly what the Republican super majority loves and may end up. He is a republican's "Yes Man". Sadly a majority of the NC voting public, have in the past, mistaken independence and control over their lives to be a "Republican" mandate...while in reality they have unwittingly been supporting leadership that has been keeping them right where they have always been..."in their place", in a financial limbo, under educated, and unknowingly subservient, easily impressed and supportive of a greedy bunch of miscreants interested in anything but elevating the state to a more shared level of prominence and success in regards to the rest of the nation. If they were to understand their broader situation and the kind of success they could have, they would undoubtedly be mad as hell, knowing what opportunities they have been robbed of over these many years. Don't get me wrong...the majority of Republican down to earth voters are not to be blamed, they just haven't been permitted to see, learn and understand the bigger picture. Our present legislature can take a major amount of credit for that reality. In life, there is good and bad and everything in between...NC is still finding its way politically.
Since he lives in the egregiously gerrymandered state in which I live, I am gravely concerned. It breaks my heart to see CocaCola from my natal state among the corporate donors. Thank you, Judd, for keeping the spotlight on.
Like Trump, Robinson offers people in general something they are looking for. Self-confidence, self-assurance in a time of doubt, and the complete simplification of a complex world.
These appeal to people subconsciously well before sound logic reaches them at the cognitive level.
Is that Clayton Bigsby in disguise 🧐. Sorry. I’m suffering from insomnia thanks to the many terrible things that terrible people are doing in this country while holding public office.
Corporate hypocrisy reigns!
Thanks for bringing this to light.
The same corporate hypocrisy happened in Germany as Hitler came to power; I worry we are Weimar America. Vote in November.
Educating our voting public about the truth that Mark Robinson endangers on all issues is a challenge that both sides must take on. If we are to be a sane country that stands for true freedom, Robinson must be fully revealed as a dumb fool and a danger to anyone his life touches. You, Judd, Tesnim, and Rebecca are doing exactly what needs to be done. I would like to hear and see famous black people with big voices weigh in and stand up with their talents.
We can't really be headed to having our country destroyed by the increasingly babbling incoherence of Trump, and other unbalanced and angry people who want to run for office so that they can control large groups of witless sheep! Or, ???
Pick a corporation, find out who is on their Board of Directors, write them individually condemning this and for extra credit write an LTE to the corporation’s home town paper calling them out by name.
Instead of letting them collect fat paychecks, let the sunshine hit them. Can’t hurt.
What amazes me the most is how so many people aren't paying attention to the fact that these hateful, angry people could care less about them or their families or their freedom. They are mindlessly and angrily giving votes to people who will make their lives harder while solving none of their problems.
When Trump endorsed him, he referred to Robinson as MLK on steroids.
As for the corporate donors. Usual cast of characters but no AT&T or big law firm from VA?
The NC state legislature has become controlled by the same type of Republican as Robinson. They never saw a district that gerrymanding didn't help. From my early years experience following NC, the Jesse Helms Repub gang ruled the roost. A million new and diverse people have moved to NC in the past decade mostly to the big cities like Charlotte Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem.
This is why when I preach about 43 state legislatures and Governor's being GOP controlled you should be very worried.
We stopped Youngkin's quest for a GOP General Assembly last November in VA.
Gerrymandering keeps then in power. I have supported Stein from next door even as he had the Mark Meadows voting mess after 2020. He has handled his job as AG like a champ. Send his campaign support through Act Blue. We proved with Warnock and Ossof in GA grassroots small donor help from everywhere can really make a difference.
I hope he defeats this awful man for the well-being of NC and the US.
Time to go after the Unaffiliated voters in North Carolina. https://carolinademography.cpc.unc.edu/2023/09/28/who-are-north-carolinas-7-3-million-registered-voters-2023/
Get the message to them. I wish that we had laws in the USA of not allowing people whose ideology violates our constitution to run or sit on our courts.
There you go Judd!! Ok people. Spread this far and wide!!
Sorry, but Mr. Robinson sounds like a close cousin to George Santos as he pursues the policy to tell people what they want to hear and they'll accept you at face value and vote for you without any sort of vetting or evaluation of the veracity of your claims or the personal history you supply. Since he seems to be practicing massive amount of psychological projection (as dysfunctional right wingers and fundamentalists generally do), I suspect its only a matter of time before we discover he's a sexual predator or "wide stance" restroom customer.
Anyone so filled with hate is clearly using that barrage of B.S. as a smokescreen to hide some very serious malfeasance or mental illness.
Also vital for this story: Mark Robinson is accused of some $500,000 in campaign finance violations, but the investigation by the state board of elections has never been released or finalized. Many think it is so damning that the Board is simply unwilling to release it. He also has multiple personal bankruptcies. So the comparison to Santos is particularly apt.
Those are not at all insubstantial amounts.
Robinson will keep on going with his schtick. He knows his audience well and gives them what they like, just the way they like it!
Robinson is an organ grinders' monkey.
Thank you Judd, Teznim and Rebecca.
Corporate political “donations” are legalized bribery, plain and simple.
How many of us can afford to compete with the vast sums of money multinational companies throw at campaigns via their super PACs and political organizations?
Whose interests do you think these bought elected officials are going to address first and foremost?
How else would antisemites, fascists and conspiracy theorists like Mark Robinson rise to political power were it not for the corporate money pumped into their campaigns?
Democracy was lost long ago. We live in a plutocracy. And soon perhaps, God forbid, an autocracy.
Having lived in NC for many years and having known many good and bad national and local politicians and movers and shakers personally from around the country, including Mr. MAGA, for well over 50 years...the thought of Robinson as Governor should scare the h-e double tooth picks, out any semi intelligent soul be he a farmer, small business owner, public servant, physician, etc. Basically everyone in state with the exception of Republican politicians and their big money funders. He represents a major step backwards in any type of progressive growth and incapable, unfit, unworthy of any type of positive population leadership role...which is exactly what the Republican super majority loves and may end up. He is a republican's "Yes Man". Sadly a majority of the NC voting public, have in the past, mistaken independence and control over their lives to be a "Republican" mandate...while in reality they have unwittingly been supporting leadership that has been keeping them right where they have always been..."in their place", in a financial limbo, under educated, and unknowingly subservient, easily impressed and supportive of a greedy bunch of miscreants interested in anything but elevating the state to a more shared level of prominence and success in regards to the rest of the nation. If they were to understand their broader situation and the kind of success they could have, they would undoubtedly be mad as hell, knowing what opportunities they have been robbed of over these many years. Don't get me wrong...the majority of Republican down to earth voters are not to be blamed, they just haven't been permitted to see, learn and understand the bigger picture. Our present legislature can take a major amount of credit for that reality. In life, there is good and bad and everything in between...NC is still finding its way politically.
Since he lives in the egregiously gerrymandered state in which I live, I am gravely concerned. It breaks my heart to see CocaCola from my natal state among the corporate donors. Thank you, Judd, for keeping the spotlight on.
Like Trump, Robinson offers people in general something they are looking for. Self-confidence, self-assurance in a time of doubt, and the complete simplification of a complex world.
These appeal to people subconsciously well before sound logic reaches them at the cognitive level.
Is that Clayton Bigsby in disguise 🧐. Sorry. I’m suffering from insomnia thanks to the many terrible things that terrible people are doing in this country while holding public office.
It’s getting very difficult to take care of life daily as I learn about more companies I don’t want to do business with. Thanks for the info.