Tag Archives: Mark Robinson

CNN reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the current Republican favorite to be the party’s nominee for governor in 2024, has a long history of remarks viciously mocking and attacking teenage survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, for their advocacy for gun control measures. In posts after the shooting, Robinson called …

Greensboro’s Fox affiliate reports: North Carolina’s top Republican has — finally — made his run for North Carolina Governor official. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Greensboro native who attended Grimsley High School and UNCG, announced his intent to run in 2024 at a previously announced rally at Ace Speedway in Alamance County on Saturday, April 22. The possibility of his …

Raleigh’s NBC affiliate reports: As he prepares for an expected campaign for governor next year, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson continues to amp up rhetoric against gay, lesbian and transgender people that has become a key part of his political brand. Robinson said this Sunday during a church service outside Charlotte that God created him specifically to fight against …

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, …

The Assembly NC reports: Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2022, is seriously considering a run for governor, setting up a potential primary showdown with presumed Republican front-runner Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. In a text message to The Assembly, Walker confirmed he’s taking meetings about a possible gubernatorial run. Two close advisers said the …

Raleigh’s NBC News affiliate reports: Christians are “called to be led by men,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told a Charlotte area church congregation last month. The comments were part of an extended critique of the social justice movement, with Robinson urging men to “put on the whole armor of God” and “take the head of your enemy in …

“I’ll tell anybody, I got them AR-15s at home and I like to go target shooting and all that. That’s not what they’re there for. “I’m not ashamed to say it, I’m probably not supposed to say it, but I’m gonna say it anyway — I got them AR-15s in case the government gets too big for its britches. “Cause …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will join former President Donald Trump at his rally in Johnston County this weekend. Robinson, who was elected as lieutenant governor in 2020, is among three new guest speakers who were announced on Wednesday, all Republican elected officials. Previously announced speakers include U.S. Reps. Madison Cawthorn of the …

Axios reports: North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “paid” for the abortion of his “unborn child in 1989,” according to his personal Facebook comments from 2012. Robinson has surged to the front of the list of prospective GOP candidates for governor in 2024, while repeatedly emphasizing his opposition to abortion as a speaker at anti-abortion rallies and other political …

Raleigh’s NBC News affiliate reports: A Durham brewery has launched a fundraiser for the LGBTQ community in response to comments made earlier this year by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. Ponysaurus Brewing Company has launched “The Lieutenant Governor Fund for the Fabulous.” Robinson, a Republican who’s likely to run for governor in three years, has come under fire for comments he’s …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican who has used his pulpit to make numerous anti-LGBTQ comments, confronted a Democratic lawmaker Monday night after she gave a speech responding to Robinson’s remarks. Robinson “berated” state Sen. Julie Mayfield, a Democrat from Asheville, after her speech and wagged his finger in front of her …

The Charlotte Observer reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson again made disparaging remarks about LGBTQ+ people, this time at a Winston-Salem church, according to a video of the sermon made on Sunday. Robinson, a Republican who is expected to run for governor in 2024, questioned the “purpose” of being gay; said heterosexual couples are “superior” to gay couples; and …

Right Wing Watch has the transcript: Freedom, equality, courage; that’s what this nation was built on. And our enemies share a whole different platform. They share a platform of tyranny, poverty, suffering. That’s what they intend on bringing us so that they can stay in power and they can stay in control. Folks, these people are the enemies of freedom. …

“You can leave God’s country, and we will not miss you. Tell our enemies on the other side of the aisle that will drag this nation down into a socialist hellhole that you will only do it as you run past me laying on the ground, choking on my own blood because I will not give up this nation to …

“Here’s something else I’m not supposed to say: Ain’t but two genders. You can go to the doctor and get cut up, you can go down to the dress shop and get made up, you can go down there and get drugged up, but at the end of the day, you are just a drugged-up, dressed-up, made-up, cut-up man or …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Mark Robinson, the Lt. Governor of NC, is coming under fire for his strong stand against teaching transgenderism and homosexuality in our schools. Democrats, of course, are calling for his resignation. The comments that the woke cancel culture are so upset about were made personally when he was speaking at a church on a …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: The Biden White House condemned on Friday North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s comments calling transgenderism and homosexuality “filth.” “These words are repugnant and offensive,” said Andrew Bates, White House deputy press secretary and a native of North Carolina, in a statement. “The role of a leader is to bring people together and stand …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: A state senator says Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson should resign for calling homosexuality and transgenderism “filth.” “There’s no debate here,” said Sen. Jeff Jackson, a Mecklenburg County Democrat. “This is open discrimination. It is completely unacceptable. Mark Robinson should resign.” Sen. Wiley Nickel, a Wake County Democrat, took to Twitter echoing Jackson’s call for …

“To every animal, God has given the ability to defend yourself.G od didn’t even leave the garden slug out. Garden slugs have little enzymes in it that make it unappealing for folks to eat. “Certainly we wouldn’t want to eat them. But even some animals look at garden slugs and find them unappealing because there’s an enzyme in them that …

“As always, we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is because of my religion that I stand here today. It is because of Jesus Christ that I stand here today. “If I lose my zeal for God, I will no longer stand in the place that he put me. You can’t continue to stand where God puts you …