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Compensation for members of the North Carolina General Assembly; lawmaker per-diem reimbursements; tax breaks for legislators

Back in early December 2019 I wrote a short essay, a critique of the media “fact checker,” PolitiFact.  PolitiFact is one of several such organizations that reviews for truthfulness not only political assertions made by politicians but various claims and statements in everything from climate change, to immigration, to economics.  PolitiFact and groups like it have become a standard fall back source enabling the media to solemnly pronounce on just about anything said or written appearin...

Some liberal pundits have labeled Black Republicans as racists solely based on the political party they represent.  The most recent example came Thursday when late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel mocked Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., saying the senator, who recently made headlines for his response to President Bidens address before Congress, "let the American people know the Republican Party isnt racist." Scott said in his Wednesday night rebuttal to the president that America is "not a racist country,...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor blasted a local news outlet Wednesday after it ran a political cartoon depicting Republicans as KKK members. "I have pretty thick skin," Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told Fox News Wednesday evening. "I expect to be criticized heavily in this job by people who disagree with my political views, my social views." But Raleigh-based WRAL’s political cartoon, published Tuesda...

Republican North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson denounced a cartoon that depicted Republicans on the State Board of Education as members of the KKK.

"That you would portray a black man, just because he’s in the GOP, as a Klansman…the hypocrisy is mind-numbing," North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says. Pictured: the state Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo: rustyl3599/Getty Images) Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson denounced a cartoon that depicted Republicans on the State Board of Education as members of the Ku Klux Klan during a press conference on Tuesday. Robinson, the state’s first African American lieute...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- On this second day of Black History Month, an editorial cartoon published on WRAL.com, owned by Capitol Broadcasting, had Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson so upset he called a news conference. "Depicting the first Black lieutenant governor as Ku Klux Klansman. Its something we cannot stand for, folks. Its something Im not going to stand for," Robinson said. "What I want to know from WRAL is that who you are? Is that who you want to represent yourself to be in this state?" The cart...

North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to speak about systemic racism in the United States. The lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, is a Republican and a member of the board. He said it was wrong for the media outlet, WRAL.com, to post the cartoon. “On the second day of Black...

By Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/03/21 12:40 PM EST   North Carolinas first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to speak about systemic racism in the United States. The lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, is a Republican and a member of the board. He said it was wrong for the media outlet, WRAL.com...

North Carolina lieutenant governor blasts local news outlet for cartoon depicting Republicans as KKK members Print this article North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is taking issue with a cartoon posted by a local news channel depicting Republicans as members of the Ku Klux Klan. “It’s something we cannot stand for, folks,” Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican and the first black lieutenant governor in the history of the Tar Heel state, said in a press conference Tuesday. “On the se...