# Speculation that NC Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is in danger of losing state Republican Party financial support **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316 "2024-08-27T16:02:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/42 "2024-09-19T23:54:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You left out “I am a sinner just like all men I knew I was missing something! ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/43 "2024-09-20T00:33:35Z")
It looks too late to take Robinson off the ballot: [At 12:01 a.m. Friday, overseas and military voters from Mecklenburg County who have requested to vote electronically will have their ballots hit their email boxes.](https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/nc-elections-workers-carefully-prepare-mail-in-ballots-early-voting/5RCDT5VGKNEBXGNCDPFWZ3GOL4/) It all sounds bad, but at least he didn’t have sex with a porn star when his wife was home with the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/44 "2024-09-20T01:25:12Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > His campaign manager is saying it’s because he called himself a black Nazi and said unspecified racist things against Jews on a message board in 2009. Given the current climate I’m skeptical that’s it. Unless it was a porno board, I guess! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/45 "2024-09-20T01:34:25Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Unless it was a porno board It was. CNN doesn’t include screenshots, presumably because of how NSFW it is, but you can find them on Twitter easily enough. Apparently Mr. Robinson is into golden showers. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/46 "2024-09-20T01:47:57Z")
Yuck, dude totally gross. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/47 "2024-09-20T01:50:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You left out “I am a sinner just like all men and Jesus has forgiven me for my youtnful indiscretions”. “And really, who didn’t experiment with Black Nazism in college?” ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/48 "2024-09-20T02:54:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “And really, who didn’t experiment with Black Nazism in college?” Back in the 70s, Marvel comics tried their hand at introducing a lot of black superheroes. We remember the good ones like Falcon and Power Man but forget the bad ones like Black Nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/49 "2024-09-20T04:26:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Babale](#): > > > > Unless it was a porno board > > It was. CNN doesn’t include screenshots, presumably because of how NSFW it is, but you can find them on Twitter easily enough. Learn from my mistake, don’t go looking for these messages. I just did and now I want to gouge out my eyes and pour bleach in the empty sockets. But my deepest sympathies go to his wife’s sister, who plays a starring role in his fetish fantasies and whoever has to clean their house. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/50 "2024-09-20T04:49:40Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Learn from my mistake, don’t go looking for these messages. I just did and now I want to gouge out my eyes and pour bleach in the empty sockets. But my deepest sympathies go to his wife’s sister, who plays a starring role in his fetish fantasies and whoever has to clean their house I mean, I’ve read worse, but I really _hope_ for his wife’s sake that they’re just fantasies. I don’t know anything about her, but I have to assume she doesn’t deserve this. Either way I assume he’s gonna be sleeping on the couch for the rest of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/51 "2024-09-20T06:23:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Either way I assume he’s gonna be sleeping on the couch for the rest of his life. Gonna have to beat Vance off it first. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/52 "2024-09-20T06:37:22Z")
\< reads word order carefully \> In addition to basically everything about Mark Robinson yesterday, apparently another Ashley Madison user was Chris Rufo, who also had a Tumblr account. And whose wife was an “undocumented immigrant”. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/53 "2024-09-20T07:00:15Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Gonna have to beat Vance off I shall do no such thing! Good day to you, sir! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/54 "2024-09-20T13:03:24Z")
Comparing himself to Clarence Thomas now… > **[Robinson denies report he made racist, sexual comments on porn site](https://www.wunc.org/politics/2024-09-19/mark-robinson-nc-denies-racist-sexual-comments)** > > Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is denying a CNN report that says he made a series of racist, sexually explicit comments on an internet pornography forum — but the allegations are prompting at least one fellow Republican to call on Robinson to drop out of the... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/55 "2024-09-20T13:08:45Z")
Yeah, Clarence Thomas is definitely the model of propriety you want to compare yourself to… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/56 "2024-09-20T13:22:29Z")
The deadline for dropping out was midnight last night. The Republicans are stuck with him. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/57 "2024-09-20T13:23:37Z")
Maybe he had a mouse in his pocket. I mean, I hope that’s a mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/58 "2024-09-20T13:41:41Z")
I set my Youtube TV to record this morning’s “Fox and Friends” to see how they would report on this. Skip-scrolled through two hours of it this morning and not one fucking mention of it. Just more of them (unironically?) talking about VP Harris’s “word salads” in the Oprah sit-down last night. I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I’m more frustrated and pissed off about this than I should be on a Friday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/59 "2024-09-20T15:58:20Z")
Word on social media from some usually reliable sources is that the information was leaked from within his party in an attempt to get him to drop out before the deadline. Makes sense. If I was a Democratic candidate I wouldn’t want him to drop out. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/60 "2024-09-20T16:04:40Z")
AIUI he could still drop out/be replaced. If they had to switch horses now they could swap-in some other candidate, and any votes Robinson got on ballots would just go to the new person. The chances of winning with that scenario, in this case, seems pretty slim, tho. If people in his own party are pressing for a change, that ain’t good. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316/61 "2024-09-20T18:15:25Z")
My wife is on the board of our local League of Women Voters chapter, and she is pretty informed about local election laws. My understanding from asking her that question is that if he drops out now, his votes will not transfer to a replacement candidate. The deadline for that maneuver was last night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speculation-that-nc-lt-governor-mark-robinson-is-in-danger-of-losing-state-republican-party-financial-support/1006316.md?page=4)