In a recent lawsuit against CNN and punk rock singer Louis Money, North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson admitted that accusations of him visiting a Greensboro adult store were true. However, he states that his interest in the shop wasn’t the same as the majority of those who entered. He asserts that his journeys there were to socialize and bring over free pizza to Money, who used to work the late shift there.
Mark Robinson refutes claims that he visited adult store to watch videos
North Carolina online magazine The Assembly published a piece that quoted Louis Money as stating that during the 1990s and early 2000s, Mark Robinson frequented the adult video store where he worked. Money claims that Robinson would show up after his shift at Papa John’s to watch videos several nights a week. The Assembly claims five other men spoke to it and collaborated Money’s story. Money also accuses Robinson of owing him $20 for a box of bootleg adult videos.
Robinson refutes these claims in the following passage in the suit:
“Contrary to the portrayal by Defendant Money, Lt. Gov. Robinson was not spending hours at the video store, five nights a week. He was not renting or previewing videos, and he did not purchase “bootleg” or other videos from Defendant Money. When Robinson managed the closing shift [at Papa Johns], usually closing at around midnight, he went home after work so that he could wake up at a reasonable hour and spend time with his wife and two young children. Robinson stopped working at Papa John’s in or about early 2001, and from then until 2022 he never saw Defendant Money again.”
The suit targets CNN for its claim that Robinson was part of an adult forum called Nude Africa, where he allegedly called himself a “black Nazi” and stated he wanted to own slaves. Since the report dropped, many of Robinson’s campaign staff quit, according to The News & Observer, and he’s fallen behind in polls.
