Days after a CNN report about racist and sexual comments posted on a pornography forum, all but a few of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign team quit their jobs on Sunday.
A campaign news release said that four top staffers have left the campaign: Conrad Pogorzelski, general consultant and senior advisor who’s worked for Robinson since his initial 2020 lieutenant governor campaign; Chris Rodriguez, campaign manager; Heather Whillier, finance director; and Jason Rizk, deputy campaign manager.
But WUNC has confirmed that other staffers have quit as well, leaving Robinson with just three people working on his campaign — two campaign spokesmen and a bodyguard. The list of departures also include longtime director of operations Patrick Riley and political directors John Kontoulas and Jackson Lohrer.
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Might make sense if I hadn’t been painfully aware of his existence for months before this latest incident.
There’ve actually been a lot of anti-Robinson ads ever since the primary.
Maybe the opposition stopped bothering advertising against him so hard.
Or move they’re working on new ads that are coming this week.
Is actually better for Dems if he doesn’t drop out of the race (I think the deadline to replace him on the ballot is Thursday). So if we’re quiet and force him to stay on the ballot, it will help us for both the presidency and governor race.
Need to be careful with this kind of thinking - that was the Dems’ attitude towards Trump during the 2016 election.
True, hopefully this doesn’t breed some form of complacency among Democrat voters. It should help D turnout against him, which would help down ballot.