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Mark Robinson skipped vote to declare Hurricane Helene a state of emergency

A man wearing a black suit and red striped tie speaks at a microphone with his hands raised
Mark Robinson, Republican candidate for governor, speaks in Greensboro, North Carolina, on 5 March. Photograph: Chuck Burton/AP

Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate, skipped a vote on declaring a state of emergency in advance of Hurricane Helene’s arrival to the southern state, according to a report.

Robinson, who has been under attack recently over alleged racist and explicit posts on a pornography website’s message board, was the only council of state member who did not vote on Democratic governor Roy Cooper’s emergency declaration, WRAL News reported.

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