Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, has placed military and veterans’ issues at the heart of his political messaging. One of Robinson’s few statutory roles in his current post as lieutenant governor is to sit on North Carolina’s Military Affairs Commission, a state body that advises on exactly the sorts of veterans’ issues that Robinson talks so much about. In response to my questions, Robinson’s office played down the commission and argued that Robinson makes a bigger difference by speaking with military and veterans groups around the state.