“Phil, is that YOU?”
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his entourage have been shedding a lot of crocodile tears 
lately about the, um, “establishment” being “out to get them.”
Never mind that the Robinson campaign is chock full of bona-fide top-drawer Raleigh establishment figures. (Senator Phil Berger, Dr. Casino himself, has installed his top political guru at the center of the Robinson campaign.) With Speaker Timmy departing for $$ greener $$ and griftier pastures in DC, Berger has solidified his role as the boss of all things political in N.C.
Berger runs Raleigh. You don’t get more “establishment” than him.
Amid some of the more recent whining from Team Robinson about “the establishment,” the following document was brought to my attention:
Robinson talks a good game at all of those church sermons / political rallies. One would think he’d been fighting for conservatism in Raleigh 24-7 since arriving in Raleigh in 2020. Yet, it has been just the opposite. Robinson has blown off many of his few job duties while jetting all over the country on speaking and fundraising ventures (plus a bit of vacationing).
Anyone familiar with the happenings at the General Assembly can tell you Robinson has been a non-factor in most all of the debates there. He stayed out of the way and kept silent while Timmy and Phil partook in their cronyism and grew government. (Remember, Robinson waited until after Timmy & Phil’s casinos were declared DOA before coming out against them.)
The arrangement has worked well during Robinson’s short tenure as LTG. Why not a Sgt. Schultz-style (I-see-nothing!) governor for at least the next four years? A governor actually sticking his nose in legislative business would oh-so cramp Uncle Phil’s, um, “style.”
Phil and his cronies have things arranged so that – if all the pieces fall in place in March and November as expected – they will control a majority of the officeholders (and their votes) on The Council of State.
Wake up and take action before it’s too late and you’re all locked out of the building, forced to helplessly watch the grift through the windows from the outside.
Perhaps Berger WANTS the GOP to lose the governor’s race because Berger is more comfortable these days being a go-fer pushing a Democrat governr’s policy agenda in the General Assembly. That is exactly what Benedict Arnold Berger has done for Roy Cooper and the major items of Cooper’s legislative agenda. First it was Cooper’s desire to let men into women’s restrooms and locker rooms by repeal of HB2. That has been followed by the NC Green New Deal (HB951) which will make consumers electricity more expensive and less reliable in order to please the climate alarmists. Then it was the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion. All of these were major national Democrat objectives as well as Cooper’s main policy objectives, so why was Phil Berger twisting arms for all of them? Most recently it is Cooper’s brain fart, the corrupt political slush fund NCInnovation. Then, of course, Berger has crooked deals on his own like the casino scam, and who could forget his unpunished open endorsement of a Democrat for judge in a competitive race? Berger has also stabbed conservatives in the back on gun rights, having killed Constitutional Carry in the last session of the General Assembly.
Phil Berger is NOT one of us and those he endorses should be viewed with great suspicioin.
During the Spanish Civil War, a Nationalist general told a reporter “I have four columns marching on the city and a fifth column ready to rise up inside it”. Since then, the term “fifth column” has been used to mean the traitors within. Phil Berger is the commanding general of the NC Republican Party’s fifth column. He is a despicable dirtbag.
Interesting that you should mention Berger’s endorsement of a Democrat judicial candidate in the 2022 election. He was seconded by most of the GOP judges in Rockingham County and when an uproar erupted over their behavior (which violates a very emphatic Party rule about not supporting an opposition candidate against one of the GOP), the county chairwoman refused to assemble a meeting of the county committee for the entirety of the fall campaign season so the matter could not be discussed. One precinct chairman raised a fuss and declared he would not hand out flyers for those who had committed this outrage. After the election, the county chairwoman had the precinct leader who had complained kicked off his post and then the committee voted to take no action against the Benedict Arnolds — the precinct leader’s misdeed? Refusal to carry out his duty to support GOP candidates! How’s that one for hypocrisy?
The hypocritical behavior of the Rockingham GOP is sure enough incredible, but I’ve got a feeling that kind of stuff is getting more and more common. For example, the behavior of the present-day GOP in Beaufort County is every bit as bad.
Fat Mark needs to be sent back to his factory job, that is if he doesn’t get indicted for his “Balanced Nutrition” scam.
What concerns me in any race are can a candidate be trusted to do their best in pushing conservative issues, and do they listen to the grassroots? Mark Robinson has been all too silent on key conservative issues in the General Assembly. He has a powerful voice when he chooses to use it, but he has sat silent again and again.
A pattern of endorsements in my State Senate district tell me he does not listen to the grassroots. I was involved in meetings two years ago on a challenge by a staunchly conservative former legislator against liberal Senator Jim Perry. Out of the blue, Mark Robinson suddenly endorsed Perry for reelection. That was one of two factors that led the candidate not to proceed. She would have gone forward with only one factor present, but both in tandem was too much of a challenge. After that debacle, a couple of prominent conservatives wrote Robinson respectfully pointing out that he had made a bad mistake in endorsing Perry, especially without talking to any conservatives on the ground in the district. Those writing Robinson were people who felt they had a strong relationship with him. I read two of the letters and they laid it out well.
Now, two years later, in the same Senate district, Robinson does it again, out of the blue making an endorsement without talking to local conservatives. The candidate he is backing is the same one that the Berger organization in Raleigh is twisting arms to get contributions for., one who talks conservative but has no record of standing up to the power brokers. Robinson is still refusing to listen to the local grassroots and that is a huge concern. His sticking his nose in someone else’s primary has already flipped a number of people I know of who were his supporters over to Dale Folwell. This is NOT what grassroots conservatives want in a governor.