Theresa Opeka
Carolina Journal
Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is demanding an apology from State Sen. Rachel Hunt, a Democrat, for running an ad that he characterizes as racist.
The ad, which has since been taken down from social media but is still running on TV, shows Hunt, who is running for lieutenant governor against Republican Hal Weatherman, shows her talking about Weatherman but, at the end saying, “And since I am moving into Mark Robinson’s office, I will start with a gallon of this,” holding up a jug of hydrogen peroxide.
Robinson, who is trailing Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein in the governor’s race, said it was a racist smear ad targeting him.
“For Hunt to quietly scrub her racist ad from social media weeks after the fact – with no questioning from our state’s liberal political press corps – is disgraceful, and shows they have zero interest in holding elected officials accountable,” he said in a press release. “Hunt must apologize for her racist ad. Every Democrat on the ticket, from Kamala Harris and Josh Stein down to state and local races, should condemn Hunt and her racist smears.”
He also points the finger at not just Hunt but the whole Democrat Party for their “racism.”
“Whether it’s Joe Biden saying black voters that support President Trump ‘ain’t black’, Josh Stein comparing electing the first black lieutenant governor of North Carolina to the old Jim Crow South, or Rachel Hunt using a whitening agent on the office of the first black elected official to hold the lieutenant governor’s office in North Carolina, it is clear the Democrat Party has no qualms about resorting to shameless racism time and time again.”
Robinson has denied allegations, made in a CNN report, that he made certain racial and sexual comments on adult websites in the early 2000s. He dismissed the story as “tabloid trash” and compared himself to US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying he was the victim of a “high-tech lynching.”
Many of his staff, both in his campaign and his lieutenant governor’s office, quit soon after.
He filed a $50 million lawsuit against CNN earlier this month but had to amend it weeks later to damages in excess of $25,000.
A hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 18 in the defamation lawsuit. The hearing will address defendant Louis Love Money’s motion to dismiss Robinson’s complaint. Money, of Guilford County, was named in the suit after he made a music video about Robinson.
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