Rick Robinson has spent thirty years in politics and law, including a stint on Capitol Hill as Legislative Director/Chief Counsel to then-Congressman Jim Bunning (R-KY). He has been active in all levels of politics, from advising candidates on the national level to walking door-to-door in city council races. He ran for the United States Congress in 1998.
Rick’s first book, The Maximum Contribution, was named a “Finalist” in the 2008 Next Generation Indie Books Awards in the genre of political fiction. It also won an Honorable Mention at the 2008 Hollywood Book Festival. Sniper Bid, was released on Election Day 2009 and opened on Amazon’s Top Seller list at #46 of political fiction. Sniper Bid earned 5 national awards: Finalist USA Book News Best Books of 2009; Finalist Best Indie Novel Next Generation Indie Books Awards; Runner-up at the 2009 Nashville Book Festival; Honorable Mentions at the 2008 New England Book Festival and the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival. Throughout 2009 both books appeared on Amazon’s Top Seller List on the same day.
Rick’s third offering, Manifest Destiny, was released in the spring of 2010. It was named Best Fiction at the Paris Book Festival, a Finalist for Best Fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Best Fiction at the New York Book Festival, a Finalist as Best Thriller in the Indie Excellence Awards, and won Honorable mention in the Beach Book Festival, the Hollywood Book Festival and the San Francisco Book Festival.
A graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Rick currently practices law in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky with the law firm of Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP. Rick, and his wife Linda, live in Ft. Mitchell with their three children, Josh, Zach and MacKenzie.
Porno para Ricardo
I am hoping that Fidel reads this column and asks me to fly to Cuba. Instead of going to the dolphin show to hear him apologize for some other past atrocity, I will insist that we go to the small apartment where Gorki Águila and his father reside.
Gorki Aguila is the front man for the punk rock band Porno para Ricardo. The band started out in the Cuban mainstream, and even got their music videos played on state-run television.
As their popularity grew on the island, Gorki Aguila became bold with the band’s lyrics and began attacking the government. Think of him as a Latino Johnny Rotten.
The lyrics sung by Porno para Ricardo are mild by American standards. But in Cuba, singing “No more lies, old man” is treason. It’s earned Gorki Aguila two arrests — the last one for the unfathomable crime of “public dangerousness.”
Porno para Ricardo is now blacklisted throughout Cuba. The only place they play is a small room covered with egg cartons in papa Aguila’s apartment. They record there once a week and copy their CDs by hand for underground distribution.
So when Fidel Castro invites me over for a drink, that’s where I want to go. If Customs lets me bring my Strat, I might even join in. Whether or not Castro’s a fan of punk rock, he won’t like what he hears.
Rick Robinson is the author of political thrillers which can be purchased on Amazon and at book stores everywhere. His latest novel, Manifest Destiny has won seven writing awards, including Best Fiction at the Paris Book Festival.
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