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The anti-LGBTQ+ lieutenant governor of North Carolina was found to have accepted contributions from unauthorized donors, accepted donations over the maximum limit, and used campaign money for personal expenses.
Mark Robinson can't stop losing.
After a monumental defeat in his bid for governor, the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina has been ordered to pay over $35,000 for campaign finance violations during his 2020 race, according to a settlement with the State Board of Elections.
A 4-year investigation found that Robinson accepted contributions from unauthorized or prohibited donors, accepted donations over the maximum limit, and also used campaign money for personal expenses.
This included accepting three donations $11,800 over the limit, and more than $12,000 from five separate political committees not permitted to do business in the state. The report also found 181 expenditures from the campaign that did not have a documented reason for purchase, including a $200 personal medical expense. Overall, $38,850 in expenses were not properly reported.
The audit found that the discrepancies were caused by “the inexperience of the former treasurer in how donors needed to be set up in the third-party software system.” It recommended that Robinson amend his campaign reports, but did not order him to do so as part of the settlement.
Democrat Josh Stein, the current Attorney General of the state, beat Robinson in the November election for governor after the conservative's campaign became overshadowed by news of scandals and his past horrific comments, including Holocaust denial and promoting reading Adolf Hitler.
Robinson is currently suing CNN over a report released last month, which found Robinson's full name, picture, and known email address attached to a profile on the pornography website "Nude Africa." In several comments, he seemingly expressed support for reinstating slavery, as well as referred to himself as a "black NAZI!" and called Martin Luther King Jr. “worse than a maggot.”
Robinson has, among many other examples, also said that transgender people should "find a corner outside somewhere" to defecate instead of a bathroom, referred to LGBTQ+ people as "maggots" and "flies," as well as repeatedly referred to gay people as "British cigarettes" in place of a slur. He also believes the "wickedness" of marriage equality will lead to pedophilia as the "next human right."
