A post on social media comparing Turning Point USA to the Ku Klux Klan has MAGA calling for an Albemarle County School Board member’s resignation.
At-large representative Allison Spillman posted on social media Tuesday in regards to a TPUSA chapter meeting that was to be held at Western Albemarle High School in Charlottesville on Wednesday.
Her post was later deleted.
Before the high school cancelled the meeting, Spillman posted on Facebook that she was livid about the group’s meeting because she is a school board member and the proud parent of a trans student.
“In my opinion this is not a matter of free speech, it’s hate speech and has no place in our schools. If the KKK wanted a speaker during lunch would we allow that as well?” Spillman said.
The high school reversed its decision, and the TPUSA meeting was held, which Spillman said violates school board policy. She encouraged parents and community members to email the school board and administration if the meeting being held at the high school angered them also.
However, Spillman’s anger about the meeting being held at Western Albemarle High backfired on social media where other users began to call on the school board to remove her.
Philip Hamilton, a rumored candidate for a local State Senate seat in the 2027 cycle, was among the critics.
“Allison Spillman’s speech is endangering the students who are part of Turning Point USA at the Western Albemarle High School and she has violated the trust of the public,” Hamilton wrote on X.
He encouraged others to email about and call for her resignation from the county school board, and asked that community members attend the next school board meeting on Oct. 9 with signs: “Spillman needs to resign.”
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Turning Point USA was founded by the late Charlie Kirk in 2012. Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University student event on September 10.
Family Foundation of Virginia President Victoria Cobb spoke at the TPUSA meeting at the high school on transgenderism. The Foundation provided a statement from her.
“With two arrests for death threats against Virginia conservative leaders in just the last few days, her remarks are highly irresponsible and even dangerous. As someone entrusted with children’s education, a school board member must model civil dialogue and respect for all. Instead, her reckless words do the opposite. Parents expect better,” Cobb said in the statement.
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Spillman provided a statement to The Washington Examiner, a conservative online news outlet, that her message on social media was in response to the content of Cobb’s scheduled presentation at the meeting. She believed that Cobb’s message was to deny the identities of transgender students and contribute to “a hostile environment for them.”
“In raising the example of the Ku Klux Klan, my intent was not to equate students involved in any club with that organization. Rather, I was drawing a parallel about the principle of setting boundaries for outside speakers who promote harmful or exclusionary ideas. We would not invite openly racist or antisemitic speakers into our schools. Similarly, we must question whether it is appropriate to host a speaker whose message invalidates the existence of transgender students,” Spillman said in her statement.
Spillman said the intent of her social media post was to ask about school board policies regarding the vetting of third parties invited to interact with students at Albemarle County Schools.
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Rebecca Barnabi
