ROCHESTER — A U.S. representative for Wisconsin is calling to “remove every single penny” of Mayo Clinic’s federal funding in response to an alleged employee’s comments about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s killing.
On Sunday, Sept. 14, Robby Starbuck, another conservative social media personality, made a post on the social media site X with three images: two screenshots of X posts by the same user, identified in the post as Glen Collins, followed by a screenshot of the same person’s apparent LinkedIn profile, which appears to list Mayo Clinic as an employer.
The X account attributed to Collins has since been set to private, and Mayo Clinic no longer appears on his LinkedIn account.
One of the posts calls Kirk a “divisive, white, racist, sexist, homophobe, anti-Semite bigot,” whi