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Steve Arnold, Campaign Director,
1620 Eastchester Drive, Suite 105, High Point, NC 27265
Email: steve@robinsonforcongress.com
Phone: 336-878-5360
Vernon Robinson, 55, is the son of a Tuskegee Airman and a nurse. He became an Eagle Scout before graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Middle Eastern Affairs and the University of Missouri with an M.B.A. Robinson, a former two-term member of the Winston-Salem City Council, set an internet fundraising record for a US House of Representatives race and over the two cycles (2004 on 2006) raised money from 28,000 donors. Currently, he is employed as a new media consultant.
After careers as a Missile Silo Crew Commander/Intelligence Officer in the Air Force and a business professor, Robinson started two nonprofit organizations. One (the North Carolina Education Reform Foundation) promoted school choice, and the other (the Carolina Education Opportunity Scholarship Fund) provided scholarships to private schools for 125 children from low-income, inner-city homes.
Robinson was the first black Republican in North Carolina to be elected and reelected to partisan public office since Reconstruction. Robinson’s attributes as a policy expert, gifted communicator, prolific campaigner, and principled Conservative have not gone unnoticed. Robinson was given a political appointment by President Bush 41 before being asked to serve on the national campaign staff of the Bush/Quayle campaign.
Robinson was elected an At-Large Delegate to the 1996 Republican National Convention and 5th District Delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, served multiple terms on the NCGOP State Executive Committee, and authored the most conservative platform in NCGOP history while Vice-Chairman of the NCGOP Platform Committee in 1993.
On the Winston-Salem City Council, Robinson was the only consistent vote in favor of spending cuts, tax cuts, law enforcement, property rights, and Second Amendment rights, and against corporate welfare and racial quotas. A former consultant to the conservative John Locke Foundation and Civitas think tanks, Robinson used the foundation’s alternative state budget process as a model to create three local alternative pro-growth budgets. His aggressive and relentless investigation of wasteful spending of public money by one nonprofit organization led to both the firing of two officials and an indictment for embezzlement and subsequently to 3 Federal felony indictments and two convictions.
Robinson’s conservative views, hard-charging style, and flair for news coverage have earned him substantial name recognition throughout the nation and a significant following among GOP activists.
Robinson has not only won widespread support from economic conservatives for his leadership on cutting taxes, cutting spending, advocating social security and Medicare reform, guarding property rights, and promoting school choice, but he has also endeared himself to social conservatives as a champion for the sanctity of life, the protection of gun rights, the abolition of racial quotas, and opposition to special rights for homosexuals.
Just a few examples of Robinson’s commitment to conservative principles should suffice. It was Robinson who organized the successful campaign to defeat the baseball stadium tax referendum in 1998 in Winston-Salem. It was Robinson who successfully defended the Boy Scouts when the local United Way threatened to withhold its funding if the Boy Scout Council refused to permit homosexuals to serve as scout leaders. Dr. James Dobson profiled Robinson on his radio show and hailed the victory in Forsyth County as a victory for God-fearing people across the nation.
And it was Robinson who filed the successful lawsuit that eliminated the racial quotas for membership on the UNC Board of Governors and the race-based scholarships at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, N.C. State, and Appalachian State University.
There is a good reason why the editorial page of the Winston-Salem Journal featured a regular liberal columnist attacking Vernon Robinson with the now famous line “Jesse Helms is back. This time he’s black.”
Robinson also organized a candlelight vigil in four states in 96 hours when a Federal judge struck down the Cleveland, Ohio voucher program.
Robinson also organized the grassroots effort necessary to pass charter school legislation. North Carolina remains the only state to pass strong charter school legislation without the support of a single statewide elected official. For his many contributions to that cause, Robinson is known as the father of NC charter schools.
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