TPUSA Members Quit in Protest of 'Exploiting' Mollie Tibbetts' Death

Iowans in the right-wing campus org resigned after accusing Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk of seeking to ‘exploit’ a student’s murder to suit an anti-immigrant ‘political agenda.’

SCOTT BIXBY
08.24.18 11:41 AM ET

The University of Iowa chapter of a conservative student organization declined a proposal that the campus host two of the group’s highest-profile national leaders for an “immigration event” following the alleged murder of a student by an immigrant, calling the proposal exploitative and “in poor taste” before resigning from the group.

In a letter penned by executive board members of the university’s chapter of Turning Point USA—a pro-Trump non-profit organization for campus conservatives—the University of Iowa chapter said that following the discovery of rising sophomore Mollie Tibbetts’ body in a cornfield on Tuesday, the chapter’s president purportedly received a message from a Turning Point field director that “insisted” that Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk and communications director Candace Owens visit the University of Iowa to host an immigration-related event.

“We respectfully decline this invitation,” the board members wrote, adding that they found the idea of using Tibbetts’ death “to suit a political agenda” distasteful.

Please read our chapters response to the planning of an immigration event hosted by Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. pic.twitter.com/savLfwf31E

— U of Iowa TPUSA (@TPUSAUIOWA) August 24, 2018

Citing Turning Point USA’s embrace of anti-immigrant rhetoric, the group concluded its letter by announcing the resignation of its executive board members.

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