More: The latest disclosure of Robinson's troubling background came last week. The state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that a Greensboro nonprofit at one time run by Robinson's wife, Yolanda Hill, must repay $132,000 for disallowed expenses submitted to a federally funded child care meal program. The amount could grow if DHHS expands the scope of its review. Robinson previously worked for the nonprofit, Balanced Nutrition. So did his son and daughter. The Associate Press reported that "Balanced Nutrition, funded by taxpayers, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show." The disallowed expenses were not merely the result of sloppy paperwork. And the pressure on Balanced Nutrition to justify its billing does not reflect, as the nonprofit's attorney claims, "political bias in the treatment of Balanced Nutrition and Ms. Hill based on the fact that Ms. Hill's husband is the Lieutenant Governor." The causes of the overcharges are suspicious. In one case, Balanced Nutrition billed the government for more than $10,000 for food and related items it purchased for Gingerbread Learning Academy in Fuquay-Varina, but the child care center says it did not receive any resources from Balanced Nutrition.

The Balanced Nutrition issue follows upon a recent disclosures that Robinson and his wife ran a Greensboro child care center in the early 2000s that was cited for a raft of violations. Those violations included claims that the center presented falsified documents showing that staff had passed training requirements and criminal background checks. DHHS took no further action after Robinson and his wife gave up the business in 2007. All this adds to what's already known about Robinson's past problems. He has been evicted for nonpayment of rent, declared bankruptcy three times and failed to file federal income taxes for the taxable years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Robinson says shirking his obligations is some sort of everyman trait, just the financial bumps and bruises endured by all people of limited means. He says in a recent campaign ad, "I'm running for governor because we deserve to be represented by someone who's actually lived like us." Most people don't live like Robinson. They pay their rent. They pay their debts. They pay their taxes. And when they are questioned, they come forward. They don't stonewall or repeatedly walk away from what they owe.