Addition of new speakers for Dakota First Action event follows fallout from Mark Robinson controversies

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate still attending Sioux Falls fundraiser despite recent national political fall out

Event promotional material posted by the Dakota First Action committee Thursday evening, confirming that North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was still attending their “Victory Gala” next Tuesday. (Dakota First Action/Facebook)

An upstart political group backed by an Aberdeen businessman has added new speakers to its lineup for a fundraiser next week, a move that could blunt the controversy of the originally scheduled headliner.

Dakota First Action initially had Mark Robinson, the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina and Republican nominee for governor, as its headline speaker for its first-ever “Victory Gala” in Sioux Falls on Oct. 1. However, Robinson has been embroiled in a political scandal that arose after Dakota First Action invited him to South Dakota. CNN first reported on unearthed sexually explicit and racist messages made on pornographic websites by an account that was determined to be linked to Robinson. In several posts, Robinson identifies himself by name and referred to himself as a “black Nazi,” while describing the type of explicit content he preferred.

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