Posted on 09/27/2003 2:03:51 PM PDT by webber
I'd vote for him.
Jesse Helms' son doesn't think so. He lives in Robinson's district and endorses him.
From - http://vernonrobinson.com/robinson_contents/about/
About Vernon
You may not have heard of me yet, but you'll recognize the names of a lot of conservatives who have. At one time or another I have been endorsed by:
Jesse Helms, Alan Keyes, Bob Barr, Elizabeth Dole, Lauch Faircloth, Richard Burr, Tom Tancredo, U.S. Immigration Reform PAC, English Language PAC, Jack Kemp, Dick Armey, Gary Bauer, the NRA, the Executive Directors of Gun Owners of America and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Right-to-Life, Bill Bennett, Pat Buchanan, Pete du Pont, Police Benevolent Association, Int'l Association of Fire Fighters, Republican Liberty Caucus, The Dixie Daily News, Southern Caucus, Richard Petty, and Jeb Bush.
President George H.W. Bush honored me with an appointment in his administration and hired me to work on the staff of his re-election campaign. My political heroes are Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia. That should give you a pretty good idea of where I stand.
The son of a Tuskegee Airman and a nurse, I became an Eagle Scout before graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Middle Eastern Affairs and the University of Missouri with an M.B.A.
My concept of family is the same as the one God ordained in the Garden of Eden thousands of years ago -- one man, married to one woman, with so many children as God should see fit to entrust to their care.
In my case, that means me, Helene (my wife of 20 years), and our three children, the youngest two of whom we adopted when their mother died of cancer at 41.
I am proud to have served my country as a Missile Combat Crew Commander and Intelligence Officer in the Air Force before becoming a business professor at the Winston-Salem campus of the University of North Carolina.
I am a staunch supporter of vouchers and school choice and am a nationally recognized expert on education reform. I am the chief author of North Carolina's Charter Schools Act and I founded two non-profit corporations. One promotes school choice and the other provides scholarships to private schools for children from low-income, inner-city homes.
I have worked as a consultant to the John Locke Foundation (a conservative think tank that focuses on fiscal issues) and I am honored to serve on the North Carolina Board of Advisors for the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project (a project of Americans for Tax Reform).
I have been elected or appointed to virtually every leadership position in the Republican Party: At-Large Delegate to the Republican National Convention, NCGOP State Executive Committee Member, 5th Congressional District Executive Committee Member, and Vice-Chairman of the NCGOP Platform Committee (where I authored the most conservative platform in the history of the North Carolina Republican Party).
Currently I am the senior Republican member of the Winston-Salem City Council, where I represent a heavily Democrat district. In my last election I got an unheard-of 70% of the white vote and 20% of the black vote.
I earned the confidence of the voters and national conservative leaders the same way Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan did - by being willing to stand up for my traditional American conservative principles - no matter what the political cost and no matter what the liberal media try to say about me.
I don't head for the high grass when the Left turns up the political heat. That's just not my style. Indeed, I relish the fiery furnace.
I put my trust in God, not my finger to the wind, and my record proves it.
On the Council, mine has been the only reliable vote in favor of spending cuts, tax cuts, law enforcement, property rights, and 2nd Amendment rights, and against corporate welfare and racial quotas. My aggressive and relentless investigation of the wasteful spending of tax dollars by one nonprofit organization led to the firing of two officials and an indictment for embezzlement.
On the Council, I earned widespread praise when I took the unprecedented step of introducing alternative budgets that cut taxes and reduced spending while simultaneously increasing funding for the police officers and fire fighters. I led the successful campaign to defeat the 1998 referendum on the Triad's baseball stadium tax.
I successfully defended the Boy Scouts when the Forsyth County United Way threatened to withhold its funding unless the Boy Scout Council changed its policy on homosexuals as Scout leaders. Dr. James Dobson profiled my story on his Focus on the Family radio show and hailed the victory as one for people of faith across the nation.
And it was my lawsuit that eliminated the strict racial and gender quotas for membership on the UNC Board of Governors, as well as the blacks-only scholarships at UNC-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State, N.C. State, the N.C. School of the Arts, UNC-Greensboro, East Carolina, Western Carolina, UNC-Wilmington, UNC-Asheville, and UNC-Charlotte.
Dueling with the Left's talking sock puppets on television will not be a new experience for me. On our local equivalent of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" (a program called "One on One"), I ably played Sean Hannity's role as the conservative television talk show host (opposite a radical feminist).
My family attends First Assembly of God in Winston-Salem. I believe my single greatest qualification to be a Congressman is that my mother raised me in a Christian home and taught me right from wrong.
Too many politicians today are morally bankrupt, ethically challenged, and ideologically clueless. They spew pabulum and invoke vacuous platitudes. Many are content to remain cast adrift on a sea of ambivalence with no moral compass, no ethical rudder, and no ideological navigation chart to guide them.
If you help send me to Washington, I will change that culture.
A Republican Congressman in the House leadership recently told me that too many of his GOP colleagues who claim to be watchdogs (guarding tax dollars and traditional values) turn into shaky Chihuahuas at the thought of having to take a stand on a controversial issue. After all, they might get bashed by the Left or find themselves criticized on the editorial pages.
As for me, I have the courage of my convictions. You will always know where I stand.
I will never blink in a staring contest with the liberal Democrats. I will always fight for what's right and I will never go native
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