North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson spoke to citizens at Five Points Public House in Albemarle Tuesday afternoon.

Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, said he wanted people to “listen to the lies that he tells about the wonderful daycare that my wife and I owned that served middle to low income families in Greensboro. I want you to listen to those lies, and that stuff way back in the past nobody cares about.”

The Republican candidate said his Democratic opponent, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, never talks about the economy, jobs or “your pocketbooks” to the people assembled.

“He talks about rape kits that he and Roy Cooper let get behind,” Robinson said. “Oh, great job. You got behind on your homework. You got caught up. Good job, sir; you should have never been behind.”

Robinson claimed rapes are up 61% statewide.

In referring to Stein’s past, Robinson noted Stein was a member of the legislature, saying, “he had his chance to be at the helm in North Carolina.”

He added, in 2008 Stein was in the legislature with the Democratic Party the majority in the House, the Senate and a Democratic gonvernor.

“Where were we? We were $6 billion in debt to the federal government. We were furloughing state workers because we couldn’t pay them. Teachers didn’t get a raise for six years.”

Robinson also said Stein cost the state $37 million in attorneys’ fees because “legislators in the state had to hire lawyers to defend you.”

Regarding his plans for North Carolina, Robinson said his party’s plan is to “stand from Murphy to Manteo” to build the economy all over the state, and not solely in the large cities like Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro.

“We need to make it so no matter where you stay in the state, whether it’s the western part, eastern part, the middle or the coast, you can make a great living and have a great life,” Robinson said.

Robinson said he wants the government to not be weaponized against people and for government not to see citizens as enemies. When the government comes to a job site, he added, “they won’t show up with a bag of problems, but a bag full of potential solutions to help companies big and small to be successful.”

He said government agencies are “not there to put up barriers; they are there to put up guard rails.”

Regarding education, Robinson said “we are going to get all of that pornography out of our libraries. We’re going to get CRT (critical race theory) and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) out of the classroom and we’re going to get back to classical education.”

“We’re going to give parents the right to choose their educational destiny,” he added. “Here in North Carolina, parents are going to be in control when it comes to their children. They brought them into the world; they should be the guide that navigates them through, not some all-powerful government who knows better than everybody else.”

Robinson also cited a recent veto override of House Bill 574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which bans transgendered women and girls from competing in middle, high school and college sports.

“Young men in women’s sports, Sen. (Carl) Ford (R-33), the legislature has already spoken on that, and what was the answer on that? The answer was, ‘No!,’ ” Robinson said. “If you’d like to do that, you can pack it up and you can move to California. Hopefully, they wouldn’t be doing it out there long.”

Robinson said people have spoken through the legislature on the 12-week abortion limits except in case of rape or incest, adding. “We’re going to work with that and save as many lives as we can and build a cultural life in the state.”

He said protestors at another stop were saying “we won’t go back.”

“I thought to myself, ‘You’re derned right we’re not going to go back (to) being broke again,’ ” Robinson said.

“We do not need to repeat the past with Josh Stein. We need to make history with Mark Robinson.”