Bob Steinburg (born July 30, 1948) is an American politician and former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly.

[citation needed] Steinburg has been arrested twice, once for disorderly conduct and once for assault on his opponent's campaign manager.

[7] Cook, R-Beaufort, chose not to seek re-election last year after court-ordered redistricting put him outside of a redrawn Senate District 1.

Cook endorsed Steinburg's primary opponent Clark Twiddy and contributed money to his campaign.

Steinburg responded to Cook's claim, "It's really very sad when you see someone at the end of his political career go out and trash a colleague.

After the deaths of four Pasquotank Correctional Institution staffers, Steinburg called for total reform of the prison system and suggested a secret society that protects administrators.

This was suggested after Steinburg was made privy to a report detailing that gun cabinets were left unsecured and inmates distributing tools 24 hours before the Pasquotank Correctional Institution’s incident took place.

[20] He has also suggested that "China, the CIA, the FBI and potentially a blackmail campaign against U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are or may be involved in a long planned coup.

Solitary confinement is a practice in which an inmate spends 22 to 24 hours a day alone in a cell roughly the size of a parking space.