Viciously Anti-LGBTQ NC Lt Gov To Launch Bid For Gov

Axios reports:

North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is expected to announce his long-anticipated run for governor April 22, Axios has learned. And he’ll do it in a place that became the hornet’s nest of hostility toward Democratic policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Alamance County’s Ace Speedway.

He’s filed bankruptcy three times and has let some taxes go unpaid, WRAL reported. He paid for a partner to have an abortion in 1989, despite equating abortion to murder.

In speeches, some of which have made national headlines, Robinson has called “transgenderism” and homosexuality “filth,” said heterosexual relationships are “superior,” suggested women should not be in leadership positions and said climate change is “junk science.”

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.@axios, the likelihood of a candidate who has derided Jews v. an out and identified Jew in a gubernatorial election might have been an angle to include here: Scoop: Mark Robinson to announce bid for North Carolina governor https://t.co/z1350YpMTw

— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) March 23, 2023