The Campaign's Press Release on Vernon's Historic Victory!
RALEIGH, NC -- Last night, Vernon Robinson won the Republican Primary Election in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District with the highest-ever margin of victory, winning all seven counties and capturing more than two and half times the votes of his closest competitor in a three-way race. Robinson is the first black Republican nominee from a competitive North Carolina congressional district in more than one hundred years.
Making history is nothing new for Robinson. In his 2004 campaign for Congress in the neighboring 5th Congressional District, Robinson received a financial contribution from more Americans (35,000) than any Congressman or candidate for Congress in the history of the United States. (After winning an eight-way primary against five millionaires in July 2004, Robinson was edged out in a primary runoff election.)
In order to win yesterday's Republican Primary Election, Robinson appealed to 13th District Republicans and Independents by emphasizing his mainstream conservative voting record on the Winston-Salem City Council and telling the voters that he was the only candidate who could take on 'Gas Tax Brad' this November. Robinson s strategy of exposing Congressman Brad Miller's ultra-liberal voting record to the voters has apparently struck a chord with donors as well. According to the FEC reports filed in April, Robinson is one of only four Republican challenger congressional candidates in the country who raised more money than their incumbent Democrat opponents.
Robinson has cited Miller's sponsorship of both the gas tax increase and the "Foreign Homosexual Importation Act" (which would give marriage visas to the foreign homosexual lovers of gay Americans) and Miller's votes in support of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, homosexual marriage, a handgun ban, partial-birth abortion, burning the American flag, and taking "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance as examples of how Miller is out of touch with an overwhelming majority of 13th District voters. Robinson says, "Those are San Francisco values, not North Carolina values."
Having won the Republican nomination in a district that President Bush won in 2000 and Senator Elizabeth Dole narrowly lost in 2002, Robinson is poised to make North Carolina's 13th Congressional District one of the contested battlegrounds that pundits say will determine which political party wins a narrow majority this November.
13th District voters are bracing themselves for the tsunami of vicious lies that has become the hallmark of Miller's campaigns. In Carolyn Grant v. Bradley Miller, Superior Court Judge Howard Manning found Brad guilty of "negative character assassination," and said Miller's television ad was "a classic case of intellectual dishonesty, as it was drafted with the knowledge that it was false and deceptive." The Court summed up the case this way: "While the truth was staring Miller in the face, it appears Miller deliberately elected to cut, paste, and leave out the truth." If there's one thing Washington doesn't need, it's another lying liberal lawyer politician who will say or do anything to get elected.
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Robinson in the Congress would be a huge boost for the Republicans, both to show that we can get black candidates elected and because of what he stands for.