Posted on 06/17/2006 2:26:55 PM PDT by doug from upland
http://www.vernonrobinson.com/robinson_contents/about/
North Carolina has a man who's running for a seat
School choice and lower taxes are his views
His opponent is a leftist whom we must defeat
He likes guns, so get aboard and spread the news
And here's to you, Vernon Robinson...we all love you more than you can know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you please, Vernon Robinson...for your campaign we are gonna pray
Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey
We've learned a little bit about you as we read your file
A man with values that good people share
All the leftist airhead fools you so love to rile
You have shown they're bankrupt as you laid them bare
And here's to you, Vernon Robinson...we all love you more than you can know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you please, Vernon Robinson...for your campaign we are gonna pray
Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey
Marriage is supposed to be a woman and a man
In a mother's womb, that is a baby
Fighting terror, stopping the invasion is the plan
Twenty million more illegals we won't see
And here's to you, Vernon Robinson...we all love you more than you can know
Whoa, whoa, whoa
God bless you please, Vernon Robinson...for your campaign we are gonna pray
Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey
About Vernon
The son of a nurse and a famed Tuskegee Airman, Vernon Robinson became an Eagle Scout before graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Middle Eastern Affairs and the University of Missouri with a Master of Business Administration.
After serving as a Missile Combat Crew Commander and Intelligence Officer, Air Force Captain Robinson became Professor Robinson. Vernon spent ten years teaching at the Winston-Salem State University School of Business and Economics before founding the North Carolina Education Reform Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes school choice.
Vernon is the President of the Carolina Educational Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit organization that raises private sector funds to provide private school scholarships to more than 250 children from low-income homes. Many of these schools are attended by children who reside in the 13th District:
Vernon has been married to his lovely wife Helene for 23 years. Vernon's mother is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha and his wife is a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Helene has helped educate children as a librarian at the public library for more than 20 years. Vernon and Helene are blessed with three children, two of whom they adopted. Vernon and his family belong to First Assembly.
During his eight years of public service on the Winston-Salem City Council, Vernon Robinson built a strong pro-family, pro-business voting record. Vernon's leadership did not go unnoticed. Americans for Tax Reform gave Vernon its Hero of the Taxpayer Award. When Vernon successfully prevented the local United Way from withdrawing its financial support of the Boy Scouts, Dr. James Dobson said it was "a victory for people of faith across the country."
In a campaign for State Superintendent, City Council, or Congress, Vernon has been endorsed by:
Vernon's common-sense views and mainstream record provide a stark contrast to the radical views and extreme, ultra-liberal voting record that Brad Miller has compiled during his three years in Congress.
When 13th District voters compare the candidates' voting records and positions on the issues, moderate and conservative voters conclude that Brad Miller is out of touch and a growing coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents discovers that Vernon Robinson is the only candidate who shares their values and will represent them in Congress.
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Can we nominate this guy for president in '08?
He does sound like an outstanding candidate for this position.Good luck and thanks.
Hey Vernon! Come to South Carolina and take RINO Graham's place!
vernon robinson is a grifter
GO AIR FORCE!
"vernon robinson is a grifter"
Please explain!
I prefer Robinson, but Foxx is a Republican (RINO though she is). Is he trying to win the nomination from her or is he trying for a different seat?
All such questions and more are answered on his web site. Read his "Issues" page for a concise statement of where he stands on key topics.
The Campaign's Press Release on Vernon's Historic Victory!
RALEIGH, NC -- Last night, Vernon Robinson won the Republican Primary Election in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District with the highest-ever margin of victory, winning all seven counties and capturing more than two and half times the votes of his closest competitor in a three-way race. Robinson is the first black Republican nominee from a competitive North Carolina congressional district in more than one hundred years.
Making history is nothing new for Robinson. In his 2004 campaign for Congress in the neighboring 5th Congressional District, Robinson received a financial contribution from more Americans (35,000) than any Congressman or candidate for Congress in the history of the United States. (After winning an eight-way primary against five millionaires in July 2004, Robinson was edged out in a primary runoff election.)
In order to win yesterday's Republican Primary Election, Robinson appealed to 13th District Republicans and Independents by emphasizing his mainstream conservative voting record on the Winston-Salem City Council and telling the voters that he was the only candidate who could take on 'Gas Tax Brad' this November. Robinson s strategy of exposing Congressman Brad Miller's ultra-liberal voting record to the voters has apparently struck a chord with donors as well. According to the FEC reports filed in April, Robinson is one of only four Republican challenger congressional candidates in the country who raised more money than their incumbent Democrat opponents.
Robinson has cited Miller's sponsorship of both the gas tax increase and the "Foreign Homosexual Importation Act" (which would give marriage visas to the foreign homosexual lovers of gay Americans) and Miller's votes in support of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, homosexual marriage, a handgun ban, partial-birth abortion, burning the American flag, and taking "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance as examples of how Miller is out of touch with an overwhelming majority of 13th District voters. Robinson says, "Those are San Francisco values, not North Carolina values."
Having won the Republican nomination in a district that President Bush won in 2000 and Senator Elizabeth Dole narrowly lost in 2002, Robinson is poised to make North Carolina's 13th Congressional District one of the contested battlegrounds that pundits say will determine which political party wins a narrow majority this November.
13th District voters are bracing themselves for the tsunami of vicious lies that has become the hallmark of Miller's campaigns. In Carolyn Grant v. Bradley Miller, Superior Court Judge Howard Manning found Brad guilty of "negative character assassination," and said Miller's television ad was "a classic case of intellectual dishonesty, as it was drafted with the knowledge that it was false and deceptive." The Court summed up the case this way: "While the truth was staring Miller in the face, it appears Miller deliberately elected to cut, paste, and leave out the truth." If there's one thing Washington doesn't need, it's another lying liberal lawyer politician who will say or do anything to get elected.
He's a con artist? How?
bttt
Robinson in the Congress would be a huge boost for the Republicans, both to show that we can get black candidates elected and because of what he stands for.
You were the one who told us --- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651173/posts -- radical leftist a-ho Brad Miller is a Daily KOS poster
I know. I was asking the poster I was responding to why he said "vernon robinson is a grifter."
His clone is needed in the 2nd District in Mississippi.
Country club Pubbies beware.
I was just giving you credit for finding the info.
The last time the poster in question responded to me, he called me crazy. He/she has apparently been here since 1999 and is of very little value to this forum.
I'm not rich by any means, so I'm selective about which candidates to fund.
I'm adding Robinson, he's too good NOT to support. A candidate that runs as a CONSERVATIVE, has humor, and tells it like it is without political correctness cluttering the airwaves.
Any folks in his district need to sign up to work his campaign if they haven't already. Everyone please donate if you haven't.
That has got to be the greatest political ad I've ever seen.
Pence for VP, IMO.
He is on my list too.
Sadly, my congressman is David Price.
Price is from Chapel Hill. Need I say more?
I'd love to be able to vote for Robinson.
jern probably won't answer you. He (?) has taken to making drive-by comments for a while now. I have no idea why.
Vernon has a long history of irritating mainstream Republicans. That might be what jern's problem with him might be.
Unfortunately, I do know Vernon, and jern, though it'll be an unpopular opinion around here, has it about right. "Grifter" (a petty con artist) is an apt description. To which I'd add "perpetual candidate," "district hopper," "showboater," and "master of the ad hominem attack." He has run for, and lost, State Superintendent of Education (twice); Congress (this is his second attempt, this time a different district he doesn't live in); and City Council in Winston-Salem. He copied the inane stunt of the judge in Alabama by commissioning a granite Ten Commandments monument and having it installed, without permission, in a county courthouse; it was, of course, removed. He slimed his opponent in the 2004 Congressional primary (Virginia Foxx, who won, and who has a 100 rating by the American Conservative Union, but is still thought of by some as a "RINO" because of Vernon's lies about her), and he has strongly implied that his current opponent is gay, despite a total lack of evidence.
As I said, great ad. But those of you who haven't seen this kook operate need to dig a little deeper before getting on board (yes, a mixed metaphor).
Vernon likes to call himself a "black Jesse Helms." Actually, he's more like a "poor man's Alan Keyes" but without the intelligence or the charm.
Question jern's conservative credentials if you like. Question mine, too, if you wish. But I recommend that FReepers steer a wide path around Mr. Robinson.
you need to dig a little deeper before you get that guy a dollar
NCsteve: I don't have all day to spend on a message board to tell everyone how great I am.
The comments in post #28 would echo what I have to say. His "shtick" is being the black republican who will say anything. He uses hi shtick to finance himself so he doesn't have to get a real job.
Does he even live in the district?
He is the nominee. Are you suggesting people vote for the far leftist Democrat?
No. If I lived in his district, I'd vote for him, hopeless though it might be. But I'd send my limited financial resources elsewhere, to candidates who a) have a chance of winning, and b) aren't obnoxious.
ping
I'm not sure who crapped in his Cheerios, but these things happen, I guess.
Thanks for the input, Steve.
Southernnorthcarolina-just to clear up any misunderstandings, my experience with Virginia Foxx goes back to when she was President of Mayland Community College and her interaction with the overwhelmingly Republican population of Mitchell and Avery Counties. She may have seen the light since that time, but she was the very definition of a RINO then.
bookmark
Not true. Do you have proof?
Vernon Robinson runs two non-profits and collects his salary from those jobs. His wife also works full-time as a librarian.
It is a shame that you boys so oppose a black conservative that you would implicitly support his crazy dem opponent on an open conservative forum.
I really like this guy. Wish he was running in Penna. Am emailing the link for his commerical to very one I know.
He lives in Mel Watt's district and was actively campaigning against Mel Watt when the NCGOP asked him to run in the neighboring 13th district instead.
TR, I can't speak for jern, of course, but your statement as it relates to be is wrong on many levels. You might want to reread my posts.
In accusing be of opposing "a black conservative" are you attempting to imply that I have race issues? I can assure you that's not the case. I haven't mentioned Mr. Robinson's race, nor do I care about it.
Your assertion that I "implicitly support his crazy dem opponent" is frankly absurd, and not in keeping with your usually intelligent postings. To repeat what I said above, I'd vote for him if I lived in the district in question (even though Vernon does not). I also said that the TV ad was one of the best I've seen. In the unlikely event that he makes it to Congress (and I have no doubt he'll keep trying; there are ten more CDs in the state he hasn't yet considered running in), his voting record would almost certainly meet with my enthusiastic approval.
But there's more to running for or serving in Congress than one's voting record. Vernon, alas, is a carnival sideshow.
"... your statement as it relates to be me is wrong ..."
It takes more than a single vote to elect someone to congress: It takes money.
Voter turnout of supporters cannot be generated without mailings and positive word of mouth.
Rude, unfair comments like "he is a carnival sideshow" suppress turnout of supporters, which implicitly supports his crazy commie-dem opponent.
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