A $30,000 per week beach getaway in Virginia? (WHO paid?)
Keeping up with the comings-and-goings of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is quite easy when you follow his wife Yolanda Hill’s social media.
Yolanda Hill’s social media reports that she and Robinson and two other couples spent a week in July 2023 at a luxury beachfront home called Palazzo in the Sandbridge section of Virginia Beach, VA.
Here’s a photo of Lt. Gov. Robinson in one of the home’s kitchens.
Now compare the above photo to the photo below from the home’s promotional website.
A beach vacation can be nice and relaxing. Sometimes, though, the price tag can be a wee bit tough to swallow. Take a look at what this particular house rents for per week in a month outside the summer (like, for instance, February).
Now let’s look at what the same house rents for during the busier summer months (like, say, July which was about the time the Robinsons and their friends visited).
Yep. THAT is what you’ll get hit for if you try to rent this house for a week in late July / early August.
Now a question gets raised: WHO paid the bill for this stay at the beach? Did Mr. Robinson and Ms. Hill foot the bill themselves? Did the Robinson For Governor campaign foot the bill?
The owners of the rental property told us they neither know nor know of Mark Robinson or Yolanda Hill. So we can rule it out as a gift from the property owners.
We reached out to Brian LiVecchi, Robinson’s chief of staff, to see if he could shed some light on who paid this particular bill. Here’s what he told us via email:
[…] “I’m afraid I do not track the details of the Lieutenant Governor’s vacation time, beyond rudimentary pertinent security concerns. Accordingly, our office possesses no public records which could reasonably be considered responsive to what I’m assuming is a request for public records pursuant to NCGS Ch. 132. ‘’ […]
So, the question remains: Who paid for the beach stay?
The ads against this dude just about write themselves. Here is another area, Robinson’s AWOL status on his public duties like presiding over the State Senate, attending Council of State meetings, and attending State Board of Education meetings. Setting out the percentages he has failed to show up for each of these duties with a tag line of “if you failed to show up for work this many times, would you get a promotion? Why should Mark Robinson?” would be a killer.
If Robinson’s primary opponents fail to use things like this in the primary, you can be sure the Democrats will in the general election. We need to take Robinson out in the primary because he is not electable in November, and he has done that to himself.
I bet that kitchen got used a lot.
Why Virginia Beach? Why not our beaches like Carolina Beach? By going to Virginia, he took our jerbs!
Mark Robinson is very capable of winning the Governor’s Mansion in November…..He will get a good percentage of the Black Vote…Mr. Robinson will tell you that there are ONLY TWO GENDERS and Mr. Stein WILL NOT ! The Black community is not into the TRANS IDEOLOGY and neither am I. Vote Mark Robinson in November >>>for he is NOT A RINO ! #TRUMP/YOUNGKIN ’24 ! ! !
You are very delusional.
The closet skeletons to be released once he is the nominee by dems, libs, press, media will be insurmountable. I can see him actually being indicted for fraud, mis-management, financial disclosure inaccuracies/ommissions, and on and on and on.
This website has produced enough evidence to support all the allegations above.
And don’t doubt the dems, libs, press, media have more to spring when NEEDED.
Lou, did you watch what happened in Kentucky when Republicans ran black conservative state Attorney General Daniel Cameron for governor? The Democrats ran a racist campaign to make sure he did not get much of the black vote centered on their “Skinfolk ain’t Kinfolk” radio campaign and it worked. Cameron lost the governor’s race and he did not make inroads into the black vote. Cameron had a much more credible record in public office than Robinson. The Democrats have worked out a game plan to deal with black conservatives getting into the black vote and it has worked. Anyone who thinks it will be different in North Carolina is delusional or is smoking something other than a tobacco product.
As to being a conservative, Mark Robinson has not demonstrated that as Lieutenant Governor. What he has shown is a failure to engage. When Phil Berger killed Constitutional Carry in the last legislative sessiion we did not hear a peep from Robinson. When Berger pushed the Green New Deal (HB951), the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and other liberal legislation, we did not hear a peep from Robinson. Robinson talks a good game, but he is all talk and no “do”. He makes dramatic speeches on generalities but keeps his mouth shut on specific legislation. He clearly lacks the backbone to be able to handle his current job, much less that of governor.
And then there are Robinson’s endorsements of Berger’s list of his RINO lackeys, often against much better conservatives. Robinson needs to have gotten off Berger’s plantation if he wanted to have any credibility with conservatives. He hasn’t so he doesn’t.
Mark Robinson has proven over and over that he is not smart enough to be governor, much less dog catcher. He made his name simply by telling people what he thinks they want to hear. I personally don’t want a person who spends his time running his mouth and not doing his job. Dale Folwell is the clear choice.
What is a good percentage of the Republican Black vote? What is a good percentage of the Black unaffiliated vote? This is a Republican Primary, Democrats will not pull a Republican ballot. If Robinson wins, it will be because whites vote him in. If he wins, there are many who take an Trump endorsement to the bank, only to find the an empty.
I was thinking about this – I wouldn’t know how to act like a wealthy elitist if our income dramatically increased like Robinson’s did. I’d still put the flat bar of soap on a new bar, I’d still squeeze the toothpaste tube to get the very last bit. Because I’m conservative.
There’s no way in hell I’d spend $30k on a vacation home for a week even if I won the lottery. Couldn’t do it. Against my nature.
If Robinson’s campaign committee paid for it, then it should be in his campaign financial report, but may be disguised as something else. That would be a misuse of campaign funds.
If some benefactor paid for it, then there is a serious corruption issue.
I’ll bet Josh Stein is already puttng the AG’s microscope on this, but we will not know the result until after the primary. That is when it would be useful for (Franken)Stein to drop whatever he finds. Do Repubicans really want to roll the dice with Robinson?