The campaign for MAGA North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is denying that he was a regular at multiple pornographic video stores two decades ago.
Robinson would frequently visit two porn stores after finishing work for the day at a nearby pizza shop, the North Carolina Assembly reported Tuesday citing six men who worked at or patronized the two pornographic video stores in Greensboro—Gents Video & News and I-40 Video & News.
Louis Money, a former employee, told the outlet that Robinson would come in nearly every day of the week in the 90s and early 2000s.
He said Robinson would often purchase two “previews,” which consisted of a viewing in a private booth.
Robinson also purchased “hundreds” of bootleg porn videos that Money sold on the side.
Robinson’s campaign spokesman Mike Lonergan denied the claims in a statement to WRAL. He dismissed the allegations as “Democrat activist fan fiction.”
“It’s a categorical ‘no’ to all the ridiculous allegations made by The Assembly based on the word of a man with a long history of drug dealing and criminal charges who will do anything for free publicity and free pizza,” Lonergan said.
“The person making the false and completely unsubstantiated allegations used to loiter at the restaurant and ask for free pizza, and that’s the extent of it,” he added.
Robinson is a devout Christian who has come under fire for using antisemitic tropes and statements disparaging women, Muslims, and the LGBTQ+ community.
“I know he might have problems with gay people, but I don’t think he has problems with lesbians,” Money told the Assembly.
Robinson also rails against what he calls pornography in North Carolina public schools often in reference to books that discuss gender and sexual identity.
He was elected lieutenant governor in 2020 and one of his first acts was to launch a task force asking parents, teachers and others to report allegations of political indoctrination or sexualized material in the classroom, according to WRAL.
