If you are a political consultant and your candidate has already said that the film Black Panther was made by “an agnostic Jew” and the Holocaust was “nonsense,” is one of those headlines you don’t really want to read with your first Thorazine tablet of the morning. From NJ.com:

This Trump candidate, who allegedly regularly visits porn shops, also cheated the Girl Scouts out of $3,000 worth of cookies

Yikes. Mark Robinson, who is already the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, which is weird enough, is more than just the latest in an ever-growing line of complete nutcases nominated by the Republican Party that began with the likes of Christine O’Donnell of Delaware and Sharron Angle of Nevada and continued through the likes of Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker. Now we’re hearing from some rank-and-file adult industry employees that Robinson used to be a valued customer.

In a report released Tuesday, five men who worked at or frequented two 24-hour video porn shops in Greensboro – Gents Video & News and I-40 Video & News – told the North Carolina Assembly that Robinson frequently visited the shop after working at a nearby pizza parlor. Louis Money, a former employee who insisted he had no political agenda, said Robinson often bought two or more “previews” over the course of a night, which consisted of a screening in a private booth. He also bought “hundreds” of pirated porn videos that Money sold, he said. Most were “just plain American porn,” he said.

First, a guy named Lou Money is doomed from birth to a career in the adult industry. Second, is everything so politicized in this country that your porn dealer can give you up? Isn’t this about privilege?

“And I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like good old American porn,” Money said. “He should be condemned for everything else, but not for this.” While Robinson has called for books with LGBTQ references to be banned, Robinson had a different opinion years ago, according to Money: “I know he might have problems with gays, but I don’t think he has problems with lesbians,” Money said.

Lou, I think I can speak for the Robinson campaign when I say stop helping, dude. The campaign has issued its own denial. Which is not the case with the Girl Scout Cookie scandal, on which the campaign has simply made no comment. By NotesfromtheChalkboard.com:

According to public records on file in Guilford County Circuit Court, in 2003 the wife of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was sued by the Girl Scouts of the Tarheel Triad for “money owed” in Guilford County Small Claims District Court – and the Girl Scouts won.

In September 2003, the Girl Scouts filed suit against Yolanda Hill over a bad check for $2,956.03. The trial was held the following month, and according to court documents, no one appeared on behalf of the defendants. The judge ruled in favor of the Girl Scouts and awarded fees and damages for returned checks totaling $3,486.03, as permitted under state law.

I hope this incident was handled within the law because in my experience, you don’t sit idly by and take revenge from the Cookie Moms. They are relentless. You can’t negotiate with them. You can’t reason with them. They have no compassion, no remorse, no fear! And there’s no way they’re going to stop. Thin Mints or death! Attention, children!