The College Republicans have broken with the statewide organization, after the incumbent president allegedly held corrupt elections.

According to Vanderbilt College Republicans President Evan Schlank, incumbent president of Tennessee College Republicans Lindsay Moffett of Maryville College held up a piece of paper telling her parliamentarian to stop calling on the Vanderbilt delegates and other schools opposed to her slate of candidates.

In protest of Moffett's actions, a walkout was staged by two-thirds of the delegates.  These delegates reassembled and elected their own slate of officers.   

The other schools in the reconstituted organization include the University of Memphis, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Tennessee-Martin, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and David Lipscomb University.   

“The absolute lack of respect for the rule of law, written constitutions and the win-at-all-costs attitude on display forced us to leave unless we become complicit in the ethical travesty that unfolded Saturday,” Schlank said. “Sadly, it is reflective of the manner in which the TNCR has been run the past two years. The scandal they have invited to the Republican Party is not going to be tolerated by the majority of the schools and college republican delegates in this state.”

The TCR Convention was held at Vanderbilt Saturday in the Averbuch Auditorium at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management.