Robinson’s marketing campaign supervisor, deputy marketing campaign supervisor, and finance director resign following a report about his alleged previous on-line feedback.
A number of prime staff of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s marketing campaign for governor have resigned amid an ongoing scandal about feedback he allegedly made on a pornographic web site. The Republican nominee has denied the accusation.
Robinson’s marketing campaign launched an announcement on Sept. 23 asserting the resignations of marketing campaign supervisor Chris Rodriguez, deputy marketing campaign supervisor Jason Rizk, finance director Heather Whillier, and senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III.
“I admire the efforts of those workforce members who’ve made the tough option to step away from the marketing campaign, and I want them effectively of their future endeavors,” Robinson wrote within the assertion. “I stay up for asserting new employees roles in a few days.”
Robinson has vehemently denied making the statements. In a video message shortly earlier than the story was revealed, he mentioned the feedback had been fabricated and urged voters to concentrate on coverage points throughout the marketing campaign.
“The issues that you will notice in that story, these usually are not the phrases of Mark Robinson … You realize that I’ve been fully clear on this race and earlier than,” Robinson mentioned within the video, which was posted on social media platform X.
“Clarence Thomas famously as soon as mentioned that he was the sufferer of a ‘high-tech lynching.’ Properly, it seems to be like Mark Robinson is, too.”
Throughout Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas’s Senate affirmation listening to in 1991, Thomas known as accusations of sexual harassment in opposition to him a “high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks who in any manner deign to assume for themselves.”
A number of prime Republicans have challenged Robinson to take authorized motion in opposition to CNN.
On Sept. 23, Robinson mentioned he was within the technique of retaining authorized counsel to “maintain CNN accountable.”
The Republican candidate additionally vowed to rebuild his marketing campaign employees and mentioned his marketing campaign is “getting presents from throughout.”
“We’re proper within the course of proper now of forming a workforce that we all know can nonetheless lead us to victory,” Robinson mentioned.
Neither Robinson’s marketing campaign nor CNN responded to a request for remark from The Epoch Occasions by publication time.