Mark Keith Robinson, the North Carolina Republican lieutenant governor candidate, campaigns at the Pete’s Family Restaurant and Freedom for Moore event at the Carthage earlier this year.. | Mark Robinson for NC/Facebook
Mark Keith Robinson, the North Carolina Republican lieutenant governor candidate, campaigns at the Pete’s Family Restaurant and Freedom for Moore event at the Carthage earlier this year.. | Mark Robinson for NC/Facebook
Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, said he’d use the office’s legislative and executive powers to help GOP lawmakers expand conservative reforms.
The lieutenant governor’s powers include breaking a tie vote in the state Senate, presiding over that legislative branch and serving on a few boards, NeuseNews.com reported.
Yvonne Lewis Holley, the Democratic nominee, wants to use her time in office if elected to move the state leftward and provide a check on the Republican-led Legislature, according to the NeuseNews.com article.
No matter which candidate gets elected, North Carolina will have its first black lieutenant governor.
In a recent debate hosted by the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership and Spectrum News, Robinson criticized Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper for issuing COVID-19 orders and treating citizens and businesses unfairly.
Cooper should have worked with the Council of State as a team “to ensure that our small businesses, our large businesses, all of our businesses can determine their own future, that we are not picking winners and losers like we saw during the early days of the pandemic where the big box stories were open but the small businesses were being shut down,” Robinson said, NeuseNews.com reported.
Robinson also said legislative tax changes in the past 10 years, such as lower rates for retail sales, personal income and corporate income, caused organic business growth “by making this a desirable area to do business,” NeuseNews.com reported.
Holley contended that corporate taxes were cut too much.
School choice separates the candidates’ views also.
Robinson backs North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program, which helps children with modest incomes and special needs. One of his priorities is “returning control to parents and making sure parents are in control of where their children are educated — always,” Robinson said, NeuseNews.com reported.
Holley doesn’t want public money to go to private and parochial schools. “Public money belongs in public education,” she said, NeuseNews.com reported.
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