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How Mark Robinson Beat Bloomberg’s Billions to Win North Carolina’s Second-Highest Office

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How Mark Robinson Beat Bloomberg’s Billions to Win North Carolina’s Second-Highest Office
The North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh, N.C., on June 5, 2007. Jim Bowen/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons
Salena Zito
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As one of 10 children growing up in extreme poverty in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mark Robinson has defied a lot of odds in life: an alcoholic and abusive father, foster care stints, and an overwhelmed single mother.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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