North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a candidate for governor of the state, was recalled as a regular visitor to an adult video store in the 1990s, an allegation he has vehemently denied.
However, a total of six men who worked at or frequented Gents Video & News in Greensboro remember Robinson as a jovial presence at the store who came to watch videos about five nights a week after his shift at Papa Johns.
Money, a former sex shop employee, said The Assembly Robinson even brought out free pizza and told jokes in the style of ’80s comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay.
The employee even recorded a song about it. His memory of Robinson’s unpaid bill, called ‘The vice-governor owes me money’ with his band Trailer Park Orchestra.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a candidate for governor of the state in November, vehemently denies allegations that he regularly visited an adult video store in the 1990s.
Robinson is known to promote conspiracy theories and a range of anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist remarks, but has received the backing of Donald Trump, who called him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
Louis Money (real name) pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug charges in 2018 and 2021 and has faced nine total charges of criminal wrongdoing.
Money also recorded a song about His recollection of Robinson’s unpaid bill, aptly titled ‘The vice-governor owes me money’ with his band Trailer Park Orchestra.
Spokesman Mark Lonergan called the allegations “nonsense” and “fan fiction by Democratic activists.” He also referred to the journalists behind the original story and Money as “degenerates.”
However, Money claims that Robinson not only visited him “once a week” but also bought “super hardcore” movies on the black market which he sold on his own.
She once even failed to pay him $25, leading him to make a music video featuring a Robinson lookalike in an adult video store while his band plays.
“I made you a bootleg. I did it all the time. Most of the time you paid me. I guess, uh, you forgot,” is a sample of the lyrics.
Money considers himself a political independent who likes Robinson as a person, but not necessarily his conservative politics.
He’s not even interested in getting the $25 back, Money just thought it would be a “fun story” that might get his band some free promotion.
Robinson, without giving specific details, wrote that he lived a sinful life even after professing his faith in Jesus in the 1980s.
The outrageous story comes courtesy of Louis Money, an employee of Gents Video & News (pictured, under a different name in 2012) in Greensboro, who is now sensationalizing her allegations in a music video for a song called ‘The Lt. Governor Owes Me Money’ by his band Trailer Park Orchestra.
‘However, I did not experience a drastic conversion like some people do. My behavior was not immediately reformed. They say sin is fun for a while, and I was in that period.’
He even told a local church in 2021 that “when I was saved, the devil redoubled his efforts in my life” before God told him to stop.
“After I was saved, I continued in disobedience, and I am not ashamed to say it.”
Money, who worked and managed several adult video stores in the area for 15 years beginning in 1992, said Robinson would come in, stay for hours and watch what were known as “previews” of dirty videos for $8 a clip.
“Every night I worked, which is five nights a week, I saw Mark. I spent a good amount of money.”
She also stated that “I know I might have a problem with gay people, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem with lesbians” based on what she purchased.
Lonergan admitted that Robinson knew Money, but claims it was just an attempt to get free pizza and hang out at the Papa Johns where Robinson worked.
“I think I went to that one (Papa Johns) once in the entire time I knew him,” Money said.
A spokesman for Robinson strongly denied the allegations: “It is a resounding ‘no’ to all the ridiculous allegations made by the Assembly based on the word of a man with a long history of drug dealing and criminal charges who will do anything for free publicity and free pizza.”
Money last met Robinson in November 2022, when the lieutenant governor greeted him and stopped to pose for a photo, he says.
He also stated that “you know that’s bullshit” because Papa Johns only offers takeout and has no hangout space.
The story cited five other Gents customers and employees (none of whom appear to share Robinson’s politics, but none of whom have donated to his campaign) who say they consistently saw the lieutenant governor in the store.
They all remember Robinson as a nice and often very funny man, although some of his jokes seemed homophobic.
“He had five or six of us up front, cracking up at four in the morning. It was almost like a comedy routine, not copying Andrew Dice Clay, but almost like doing an Andrew Dice Clay comedy,” Money recalled.
Money last met Robinson in November 2022, when the lieutenant governor greeted him and stopped to pose for a photo, he says.
“It was great to meet an old friend today. We have no political relationship, but you’ve always been good to me,” Money wrote on social media at the time.
Money insists that this whole music video mess is just an “inside joke” he’s pulling to promote his band.
Now he says, “I don’t know if he still watches porn. You know, people change in 20 years.”
Lt. Gov. Robinson speaks at a Trump rally on March 2, 2024. The former president endorsed Robinson in the gubernatorial race and called him MLK “on steroids” at the rally.
Robinson’s conspiracy theories have been widely reported, but this is believed to be the first audio of him discussing conspiracies about Pearl Harbor and Patton.
Robinson went on to argue that President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to enter World War II was part of a communist conspiracy to aid Stalin.
Robinson’s past references to conspiracy theories are well documented.
He previously claimed in a post that he was “skeptical” of “everything” he had seen on television, including 9/11, and The assassination of JFK and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Robinson also posted that he doesn’t believe the moon landing was faked or that 9/11 was an “inside job,” but wrote that if he found out it was true, “I wouldn’t be surprised.”
The right-wing conservative activist has also been a polarizing figure who has been criticized for his past comments about women, Jews, Muslims and members of the LGBTQ community.
Before running for lieutenant governor in 2020, Robinson once wrote that the Black Panther movie was ‘created by an agnostic Jew and brought to the cinema by Satanic Marxists.
In another post, Robinson wrote “This nonsense about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then sending them to concentration camps is a load of nonsense.”
Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein faces Robinson in general election
Although it has been raised by critics, in this case Robinson appears to be making a point about gun control and restrictions that existed before the Nazis. His campaign claimed he has never denied the Holocaust.
Following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida that killed 49 people in 2016, he wrote that homosexuality “IS STILL an abominable sin” and that he would “NOT join in the ‘gay pride celebration.'”
He also suggested that Ellen DeGeneres, who is openly gay, was a “high-ranking demon.”
In posts following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, Robinson called survivors “spoiled, angry, know-it-all KIDS” and “media prostitutes.’
Robinson clinched the Republican nomination for governor of North Carolina on Super Tuesday in March.
He has the backing of Donald Trump, who described Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids” when he endorsed him at a rally in Greensboro before the primary.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will face Robinson in the general election.