WataugaWatch: “The special event turned out to be Robinson’s stumbling over prepared remarks proclaiming “North Carolina Solidarity with Israel Week” and wordage someone else wrote for him about how North Carolina stands strongly behind the Jewish people….
The response to Robinson’s actorship as governor that caught my attention was the one issued by Republican-rival-for governor Dale Folwell, who minced no words and addressed Robinson directly:
I could not, in good conscience, accept your invitation as a member of the Council of State to stand with you at your press conference this morning.
You have regrettably seized the opportunity to engage in a stunt with dubious authority as acting governor during a brief interlude while Gov. Cooper is overseas conducting state business. How can you pretend to be governor when the record is clear that you haven’t done your job as lieutenant governor? As a person who has shamefully denied the Holocaust and whose history is checkered with hateful anti-Semitic comments you have no right to be commenting on this topic…. (emphasis added)”