Texas AG Files To Defend Group Behind Book Bans

The Texas Tribune reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants his office to help defend Llano County officials being sued for restricting and banning books from their public library system. In a court filing, Paxton asked Austin-based federal district court Judge Robert Pitman to let the state intervene in the lawsuit, which was filed by seven Llano County residents.

If Pitman grants the motion, Paxton’s office could aid the county judge, county commissioners and library director in fighting the lawsuit. Books removed from the library include Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” and Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group”

 

crewman • 9 hours ago

When given a choice, Republicans show repeatedly, consistently they have no true principles. “Principles” are just a shield or a weapon to achieve the goal of power. They abandon those very same principles the very second it’s useful to do so. Do they care about the First Amendment now? No. Have they ever. Only when it’s ever been convenient to them.

Nic Peterson • 8 hours ago

Straight, religious, white people are fragile, delicate little things.

Rex • 8 hours ago

Banning books and promoting guns doesn’t seem like the type of thing a civilized society would do. We are regressing not progressing.

현빈(🇰🇷🇰🇿Hyunbin🇺🇸)🥋☕ • 8 hours ago

But Republicans fight to the death over defending books that depict racist stereotypes and caricatures. They lost their collective little mind over Dr. Seuss books with clear racist overtones being taken off school shelves. Something anti-racist and educational, though? Suddenly banning books is fine. Patriotic, even.

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amy cuscuriae 현빈(🇰🇷🇰🇿Hyunbin🇺🇸)🥋☕ • 7 hours ago • edited

They lost their collective little mind over Dr. Seuss books with clear racist overtones being taken off school shelves

The publisher announced they would no longer publish one or two Dr. Suess books. I haven’t seen any evidence either book was removed from any library.

Gregory In Seattle 현빈(🇰🇷🇰🇿Hyunbin🇺🇸)🥋☕ • 7 hours ago

This image reminds me of something a friend said recently:

Every Republican argument comes down to “The firefighters are incompetent, vote for the arsonists!”

Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 8 hours ago

Books removed from the library include Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” and Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group”

In a society run by Texan GQPers, all public libraries will have the identical offerings as your local Christian bookstore and church waiting room, as well as the same propaganda as Stormfront.

jk105 • 7 hours ago

I’m so tired of the cranky contrarians in the center and left who only see “cancel culture” as happening on college campuses or in civil rights movements. Will they call this out, but will the likes of Bill Maher continue to obsessively condemn trans folks who speak out against Dave Chappelle?

Conservatives Are OBSESSED With The LGBTQ

Ted Cruz makes foul jokes about beloved Disney characters at the expense of the LGBTQ, while other conservatives call for violence.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs law to arm teachers with 24 hours of training

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/06/13/ohio-gun-laws-gov-mike-dewine-signs-armed-teacher-training-bill/10002086002/

Gov. Mike DeWine is flanked by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, right, Rep. Thomas Hall, R-Madison Township, and others as he speaks at a press conference about school safety on June 13.

School districts across Ohio will be able to authorize teachers, principals and other staff to carry firearms into classrooms this fall after 24 hours of training. 

The new law, signed Monday by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, will lower the required training hours for armed school personnel from about 700 hours to four scenario-based training hours, plus a maximum of 20 hours for first-aid training, history of school shootings and reunification education. 

The signing came the same day Ohio’s new constitutional carry law took effect. 

“In life we make choices, and we don’t always know what the outcome is going to be,” DeWine said at a news conference. “What this Legislature has done, I’ve done by signing it, is giving schools an option based on their particular circumstances to make the best decision they can make with the best information they have. That’s all any decision-maker can do.”

Ohio school districts are not required to allow staff to carry firearms under the law. House Bill 99 allows local boards of education to decide whether they want staff to carry firearms at all and how much training will be required. 

DeWine said he directed the Ohio School Safety Center to require at least 24 hours of training and eight hours of requalification training each year. The move appeared aimed at eliminating confusion among lawmakers over whether the bill established a minimum number of training hours.

Private businesses that want to train school staff must also meet the 24-hour minimum to have their curriculum approved, DeWine said.

‘Do something’

Democrats and gun control advocates panned the new law, saying it won’t do enough to prevent gun violence and mass shootings. Law enforcement officials have also said 24 hours is not enough time to learn how to safely use a firearm.

Opponents argued DeWine walked back on promises to address gun violence after a gunman killed nine people in Dayton in 2019. The governor responded to cries of “do something” by unveiling a package of gun control reforms, but they never went anywhere in the GOP-controlled Legislature.

“I feel like a putz for believing him,” Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said. “He did something, alright. He gave in like a coward, and he made the problem worse.”

DeWine has signed three bills loosening gun restrictions since the shooting.

“It’s a complete bastardization of what people said in Dayton, frankly,” said former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, who is running for governor against DeWine. “This is not what the people of Dayton had in mind when they started chanting that.”

During Monday’s news conference, DeWine urged lawmakers to consider provisions of the 2019 legislation that would increase penalties for straw purchases and prevent people with severe mental health conditions from possessing a firearm.

DeWine touts school safety efforts

DeWine’s signature puts an end to years of debate over how many hours of firearm training Ohio teachers should have. 

Parents in the Madison Local Schools district in southwest Ohio sued the district over its armed teacher program, arguing that the training required – about 24 hours – violated state law. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled for the parents in 2021. 

The court ruled in a 4-3 decision that Ohio Revised Code required anyone authorized to carry a gun on school grounds to have 20 years of experience or peace officer training. DeWine argued the ruling made firearm training unmanageable for school districts that wanted to permit it.

But some law enforcement disagreed. 

“I think it’s a horrible idea to arm our teachers,” Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said. “There’s a lot of training that’s involved in that. It’s naïve to believe that is something we can put on them and expect them to respond to from a law enforcement perspective.”

The governor used Monday’s news conference to highlight other school safety initiatives that he’s rolled out since the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The new capital budget includes $100 million in grants that schools can use to upgrade building security. The state is also investing in training to help school staff identify behavioral health problems in students.

“We are trying to do and have been trying to do every single day things that people keep safer – keep kids in school safer but also these same children who go home to neighborhoods where there’s violent crime and repeat violent offenders,” DeWine said. “Their lives are important, too. All children’s lives are important.”

heleninedinburgh • 5 hours ago

Republicans: teachers are communists who want to molest your kids and change their genders while listening to Bob Marley.
Also republicans: we need to arm teachers.

Melissia • 5 hours ago

This will lead directly to children being maimed and killed.

Texas Paul REACTS to Lauren Boebert’s Secret Off-Roading Accident COVER-UP

The Truth Behind Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Cult Ties

It has been revealed that Kevin Ranaghan, the founder of the Christian fundamentalist group the People of Praise, of who Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is a powerful member, controlled almost the entire life of a female member of the group. Kevin and his wife Dorothy allegedly had multiple inappropriate instances with the woman’s children in addition to controlling financial decisions and dating relationships. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

Read more HERE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/legal-clai…

“The founder of the People of Praise, a secretive charismatic Christian group that counts the supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett as a member, was described in a sworn affidavit filed in the 1990s as exerting almost total control over one of the group’s female members, including making all decisions about her finances and dating relationships.

The court documents also described alleged instances of a sexualized atmosphere in the home of the founder, Kevin Ranaghan, and his wife, Dorothy Ranaghan.

The description of the Ranaghans and accusations involving their intimate behavior were contained in a 1993 proceeding in which a woman, Cynthia Carnick, said that she did not want her five minor children to have visitations with their father, John Roger Carnick, who was then a member of the People of Praise, in the Ranaghan household or in their presence, because she believed it was not in her children’s “best interest”. Cynthia Carnick also described inappropriate incidents involving the couple and the Ranaghan children. The matter was eventually settled between the parties.””

CultureCow: Anti-LGBTQ legislation is making the rounds this Pride month, this documentary can help

I want to thank Ali for sending me the link for this article.   I find it to be well written and informative.   Ali also has a comment in the comment section which I will try to post but if you go to the link remember where this newspaper is located and be prepared for the hateful things said in the comment sections.   Some people are very proud of their ignorance and bigotry.    Hugs

Commentary by Devin McCue, Sumner Newscow — Happy Friday. On Monday, Louisiana became the 18th state to target children who just want to play sports without someone looking at their genitals.

The legislation is ironically named the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” despite the fact it does just the opposite. It expressly bans transgender students from participating on the correct sports teams because Republicans believe it gives them an unfair advantage.

Actually, the belief is that trans girls have that advantage because of their testosterone injections. Trans boys will still be allowed to play, but I imagine they’ll change their minds as soon as a trans boy starts winning enough matches/games.

Before going further, here are a few quick facts:

  1. Talent in sports varies as widely in the trans community as in the cis community and a person’s genetic makeup and internal and external reproductive anatomy are not useful indicators of athletic performance;
  2. There has never been a recorded instance of a trans person attacking someone in a bathroom or locker room and, in fact, are far more likely to be attacked by a cis person;
  3. No boy has ever subjected himself to the shameful ridicule and abuse that trans people suffer through for a competitive advantage in a sport;
  4. There are more than two biological sexes, so discriminating based on that completely ignores intersex people with more than two types of chromosomes;
  5. There wasn’t a single outwardly trans kid playing in Louisiana when this bill passed and that’s a common case with these sports bans.

Since it’s Pride month and these bills aren’t likely to go away until they’re declared unconstitutional, CultureCow is here to direct you to a Hulu original documentary called Changing the Game.

Changing the Game follows three high school athletes who happen to be trans and all the vitriol they have to endure from raving adults. The kids come from Texas, Connecticut, and New Hampshire and have wildly different upbringings, but one thing is consistent: they just want to compete.

Mack is from Texas and is forced to compete in the girls’ wrestling division despite transitioning far before that. This actually isn’t as uncommon as you’d believe, but Mack is a special case because he’s dominating. People complain that he has an unfair advantage and Mack agrees, but Texas’ shameful policies force him to compete in the competitions “aligned with his birth certificate.”

Andraya runs track in Connecticut under the appropriate girls’ division but suffers the same transphobia as Mack. Her state allows her to compete with her gender identity, but can’t force parents (whose kids are never concerned as they are) from making asses out of themselves.

Sarah Rose races in Nordic skiing in New Hampshire and receives some of the hate that her costars do, but to a lesser extent. Because she isn’t winning every race. Despite what conservatives would call “her competitive advantage,” Sarah Rose is a middling athlete like the vast majority of trans kids.

Changing the Game is an important documentary because it’s the first one that actually takes the issue from the kids’ point of view. Most people who support these draconian policies say they do so “to protect their children,” but never seem to care what the kids actually go through.

These athletes just want to compete like all the other kids, but they have to put up with fear-mongers and professional liars like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan who are shameful enough to politicize their existence. What makes this film special though isn’t just the bravery these kids exhibit, but the human experiences they go through like every other teenager, whether that be love, parental relationships, or just growing up in general.

If you find yourself sympathetic to the idea that this is a left vs. right issue, you’ll also want to watch to observe Mack’s grandma. A gun-toting, Christian, Republican, police officer who hasn’t changed her mind on any issue, but still supports her grandson entirely. Be like her, and let kids play.

Unfortunately, Louisiana’s transphobic bill isn’t the only state legislation making the news.

A Texas GOP lawmaker plans to file legislation next session that would ban any event that includes drag-performers that minors could attend. This comes after years of conservative backlash to the immensely popular drag queen story hours and likely won’t pass.

Like in the above story, however, in these people’s quest to “protect the children,” no one seems to care what those children actually think.

Kids love drag story time and every queen and school or library that’s done it has raved about how fun and successful it was. The American Library Association even released an explicit statement in support of the practice, which included a list of resources for anyone hoping to bring it to their library.

Getting kids to read is the actual best way to protect them, but I guess if we did that, there’d stop being conservatives in a few decades…

People (*cough* homophobes *cough*) like to complain that drag shows are inappropriate because they can “corrupt” the children’s minds, but that doesn’t make any sense. Firstly, if your sexuality is so flimsy that it can waver after watching a grown man lip-sync to a Britney song, you probably just aren’t straight in the first place. And secondly, even if drag shows and story hours somehow turned kids gay (which they can’t because that’s stupid), so what?

Being gay is fun and nothing to be ashamed of. Maybe care less about who other people love and focus inward on why you’re so afraid that someone is more honest with themselves than you are.

And lastly, I can’t emphasize enough how small a deal drag is.

Personally, I don’t like drag that much. I love going if one of my friends is in the show, but other than that, it’s just not for me. And there are thousands and thousands of straight people who love drag yet somehow don’t come out gay. A straight drag queen even competed in RuPaul’s Drag Race recently.

This Texas lawmaker and anyone else getting so worked up over drag, should take a lesson from their kids: calm down, have some milk, and take a nap because you’re throwing an embarrassing hissy fit.

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ali redford-83p· 2 days ago

The Sumner Newscow continues to be the sports news and news asset that it’s always been. Everybody doesn’t like the same thing all the time, so since Culture Cow began, I’ve really appreciated it as a resource. Plus, it’s very well written, and I appreciate that.

I also appreciate the courage you and the Newscow show in posting features about issues that shouldn’t be contentious, but somehow are. I’m a Free Mom Hug giver and an ally, and I can’t wait to watch “Changing The Game.”

Gay couple says they may move from Florida after DeSantis’ move

A five year old was told often enough that his family was wrong and that the HAD to have a mommy, by adults, that he started to lie saying his mom died.   Is this the correct message to send to little kids, your loving two dads are so wrong you need to start lying to fit in?   These two men who have a five year old son are now faced with having to move out of Florida.   They are lucky if they can afford to do so, even though it shouldn’t be this way.  The state of Florida has been taking over by Republican thugs on a religious culture war to incite their base to attack anyone different than them.  Including a five year old.   Sick.  But the Republican party and their gang of thugs will do this everywhere they can get away with it, and they will do it in places they were not in before to show they can.  As I posted earlier.   We need to understand what is happening in the US right now, we are losing the country to a gang of thugs.  Hugs

THERE IS NO CC AND WITH CNN The CC is useless anyway.  Please try to listen anyway.   It is about a five year old boy being told his family is not real enough for the haters.   Hugs

Jordan Letschert and Robby Price are teaching their son Kellan how to talk about their family. But recent anti-LGBTQ legislation has led them to reconsider if this is a good place to raise him.

Hate Crime Investigation Launched After Proud Boys Storm And Scream Abuse At Drag Queen Story Hour

The violence by these right wing groups is getting worse.   It started with hate preachers, and now is a normal tool of intimation and fear caused by gang thugs who are the brownshirts of the Republican party.   We know how deep these groups were in the insurrection.   I have a fear that this is what is going to be the normal for the right to any they disagree with.  I also want to point out as I have before how traumatized these little kids must have been.  These were little kids.  As has happened before at other libraries and bookstores these little kids are being terrified by these angry men coming and screaming, yelling, angry, making threats and saying bad things.   Yet these gang thugs claim there are there to protect the children, the very kids they are scaring to death.    We had better take this seriously because this is a prelude to what will be happening at any event that displease the right, as we seen with school board meetings during Covid.  Right now red states are passing bills to have their armed, yes in some cases armed, supporters as poll workers to challenge voters of color or those they know are democrats.  This is not democracy.   History has shown us what happens if this is not stopped.    Hugs

San Francisco’s CBS News affiliate reports:

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a group of men who disrupted a drag queen storytelling event at the San Lorenzo Library Saturday with homophobic slurs.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library located on Paseo Grande.

Authorities said a group of men entered the library its “Drag Queen Story Time” event and made “homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the event.”

From the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office:

When deputies arrived they learned a LGBTQ community member was hosting a reading event at the library called, “Drag Queen Story Hour.” Present at the event were children, parents and other community members.

A group of men entered the library and disrupted the reading event. The men were described as members of the Proud Boys organization, known to be a right wing hate group with anti-LGBTQ affiliations.

The men began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at the event organizer. The men were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor causing people to fear for their safety.

Deputies responded to the scene and were able to de-escalate the situation. An active hate crime investigation is underway as is an investigation into the annoying and harassing of children.

ACSO will dedicate all resources to ensure the safety of members of our LGBTQ community. We will make sure any future events at the library are safe against hate speech and threats of violence.

As we celebrate Pride Month, we will be swift in our response to any incidents where there are threats to harm members of this community.

Image above via Google Street View. The Proud Boys may have been alerted to the event thanks to a tweet from the anti-LGBTQ account, LibsOfTikTok.

Judas Peckerwood • an hour ago

The Brownshirts are officially on the march.

JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago

LibsOfTikTok is going to get somebody killed.

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Franciscan JoeMyGod • 31 minutes ago

They also apparently object to the fact that the library’s activities are, gasp, funded by local property taxes. Presumably most people who pay property taxes have no particular problem with this activity or we would hear more from them. Question: what is the “libs” in this handle supposed to mean?

Yves R. Mektin Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago

Oh, and remember “Bosom Buddies,” which started the careers of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari? There’s no way that show would be on the air nowadays.

Bambino🇺🇦🌻 Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago

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Daniel rotter Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago

You never see this in other areas. For example, you don’t see gun control groups invade gun shows where parents take their kids.

BlindBill Daniel rotter • an hour ago

Or … stand outside of churches warning kids to keep away from the youth pastor, priest, or any church affiliated man around ..

KarenAtFOH • an hour ago

DeSantis now wants any parent who takes a child to a drag show to be investigated by DCF, charged with child abuse, and have their parental rights taken away.

Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago

Dead kids splattered in a classroom doesn’t seem to garner the same freak out as fun time with drag queens

KarenAtFOH Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago

Welcome to trans hate spillover. It will get worse before it gets better.

Yves R. Mektin • an hour ago

The Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers, among other neo-fascist groups, have been a big problem for quite a while now, and it’s only getting worse, rapidly.

Canada has wisely designated the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys, at least, as “organizations designated as terrorists.” We have not been so wise in the US.

DaddyRay • an hour ago • edited

They have put a target on our Drag Queen community, a community rich in our history of being on the fight for the rest of us.

JWC • an hour ago

Ah the big brave “proud Boys are threatened by little kids and a Drag queen Are your dicks really that small??/

Daniel rotter • an hour ago

“Investigating?” What exactly needs to be “investigated?” The Proud(ly Idiotic) Boys clearly engaged in trespassing and disturbing the peace. Why aren’t they being arrested?

Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • an hour ago

I think literacy is a noble goal and should be a community effort. We need some of those Drag Queens to go into the teaching profession and teach numeracy too.

Kudos to all the Drag Queens who volunteer to further the effort of educating children. The Proud Boys only teach hatred, violence and idiocy. I see no purpose in being a Proud Boy, except to promote narcissistic Nihilism.

Catholic Group Launches “Hide The Pride” Campaign To Check Out LGBTQ-Related Books From Public Libraries

Notice this is not about their kids, it is about regulating what other people’s kids can see / read.   They are trying to force their views on other people’s children, trying to force other parents to follow their church doctrines.   Your freedom as a parent to decide what your child should be able to read or have access to is being removed by a religious group.  It is about forcing the public to follow the doctrines of a religion in a secular country.  These people claim it is about protecting children, but their group is responsible for the largest mass molestation of children ever!  So they claim the LGBTQ+ are dangerous for kids, that the LGBTQ+ are molesting kids, but again their very group has the largest know child abuse instances.  Don’t we need to take away all books about these people, the religious groups, the Catholic church.   Hide the churches and don’t let them be mentioned in schools.  Plus one last thing when it comes to books with sexual improprieties they bible is the worst.   Incest is rampant, sex with little girls, sex with concubines, approval of prostitutes and so much more.   I think this short article is something all people who claim the bible says one man / one woman is the only way should read.    https://valerietarico.com/2012/03/29/captive-virgins-polygamy-sex-slaves-what-marriage-would-look-like-if-we-actually-followed-the-bible/  How is this a moral guide that children should be forced to read?   Hide this book from kids before you go after LGBTQ+ books.    Hugs

The Hill reports:

A controversial conservative Catholic organization is urging parents to “Hide the Pride” during Pride Month — by checking out any LBGTQ-related books they see at their local libraries so that no children will see them.

The group, Catholic Vote, says “recent polls” show “American moms and dads do not want their children exposed to sexual and ‘trans’ content as part of their education.”

The group says parents can inconspicuously check out materials and place them away from children at home.

From Catholic Vote’s press release:

Catholic Vote’s Hide the Pride parental resource page includes step-by-step instructions and tips for parents who want to send that message to their local library board.

After collecting signatures on a letter to the library board, members of the public will go to the library, find the “Pride Month” display full of LGBTQ books targeted at kids, and simply check out all those books at the front desk.

Catholic Vote recommends participants take a friend or two along so multiple library cards can be used. Having emptied the children’s “Pride” display, parents can go home and “place the Pride books on a shelf out of reach of children,” Catholic Vote suggests.

RELATED: Longtime JMG readers will recall Catholic Vote as the home of former NOM communications director Thomas Peters, who famously battled the hate group for insurance coverage after a diving accident left him a quadriplegic. Peters, who helped lead NOM’s campaign against Obamacare, later admitted that his treatment was being covered, in part, by…..Obamacare. Catholic Vote last appeared on JMG in January 2016, when they issued a lengthy rant against Trump, calling him a womanizing loser who had opened a “sinful” titty bar in one of his casinos.

Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • 2 hours ago • edited

Fine. Now excuse me, while I properly reorganize all the Bibles into the fiction section of my libraries.

Makoto Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • 2 hours ago

Indeed. Unlike these idiots, who want to hide information away, I actually want people to read bibles and other religious works of all sorts. But they should be properly categorized.

Caitlyn Haiku Makoto • an hour ago

If they actually read what’s in there, tons of violence, sex, genocide, slavery, etc. But to the religious zealots, it’s much more scary to see a kids book whose message is that some families have two mommies, or that some people are different from them and that’s ok.

Vidrax • 2 hours ago • edited

“Oh, there’s a higher demand for LGBTQIA+ books than we anticipated. Let’s order more of those!”

Gigi • 2 hours ago

I guess the Luddites haven’t heard about The Internet. Everything’s available online now, you fools.

I’ll get Adam & Steve to tell them. 🏳️‍🌈

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Reality.Bites Gigi • 2 hours ago

It’s interesting that Adam and Eve (or Adam and Steve) are almost invariably portrayed as two white people.

I mean, I guess if you believe in evolution it makes sense that humans evolved from white Christians.

Quentin Jersey • 2 hours ago

The starving poor children in the US??? Nope lets check out queer library books to demonstrate our faith.

Jamieboy Highballs Quentin Jersey • 2 hours ago

I once asked one of those holier than thou shitbaskets “How many kids in our city went to bed last night without enough to eat”? he didn’t know and said he’d “pray for the starving children” while laughing out loud. I nearly preformed a dickarectomy on the spot.

btw, he and his fellow imbeciles were harassing folks going into PP.

TrollopeReader • 2 hours ago

How horrible to spend one’s life trying to destroy people and their lives … rather than something for the good of all.

Phil • 2 hours ago

If you find material in a PUBLIC library objectionable, don’t go there. But don’t assume everyone else finds it objectionable. If you’re concerned about your children mind them more carefully, but don’t hold other people’s children to your standards.

Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • 2 hours ago

However, the Catholic Church will continue Drag Queen Story Hour throughout the whole month.

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Reality.Bites • 2 hours ago • edited

Who knew that kids today were spending so much time in libraries?

(I mean they DO realize that any kid with a double-digit IQ can get an education in everything LGBTQ in a day through YouTube more complete than most of us have accumulated in a lifetime, right? And that you can’t throw a remote control without hitting a queer character on TV.)

Tempers flare as Lee County Republican Party members attempt school board takeover

This is the county I live in.  As I said before Florida is a divided state, but the minority Republican party try to rule it by force of intimidation, gerrymandering, and voter suppression.   The Republican party under DeathSantis is a gang of thugs.  We are very much in a dangerous time in the US and it looks like the republican media arm of rabid right misinformation / misdirection will convince the people angry at gas prices and inflation that it is Biden’s fault.  The truth is both inflation and price increases are worldwide, and a lot of the price increases is price gouging.  Oil companies admit they love rolling in the profits.   But notice that these elections are supposed to be non-partisan and focused on the needs of the students, but instead the republicans are trying to gain control to make it about election power.    Hugs 

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Some members of the Lee County Republican Party openly admitted they’re trying to take over the Lee County School Board during the upcoming elections.

That’s despite the fact the races in Florida are non-partisan. If you’ve seen the school board meetings over the last two years you know they’ve been contentious and at times violent.

But that isn’t stopping Republicans from trying to control the school board.

Conservative Republican Political Consultant Terry Miller pointed out that there are seven members of the school board and only three are republican in a county where every partisan race is held by a Republican.

 

He admits he wants to overhaul the board.

“What I’m doing is bringing forward conservative leadership for a conservative community,” Miller said.

He didn’t deny he was helping wage a culture war campaign

“There are aspects of that in the culture war because of the things you see happening on the school board,” Miller responded.

He’s backing Conservatives like Dan Severson.

“I’m talking about gender grooming and talking about very sensitive issues that should be family based,” Severson was stressing LGBTQ issues.

Many LGBTQ students in Southwest Florida schools reported feeling under attack.

“Because they feel like victims now they have the ability to use that a leverage to get privileged treatment,” Severson responded.

Jason “Big Mamma” Jones said no one should be attacked or bullied in the school system no matter who they are.

Jones is Severson’s republican competitor known fondly as “Big Momma” on the radio.

“I’m endorsed by sheriff Carmine Marceno. I’m endorsed by the Hispanic vote and I’m endorsed by Mayor Devin Anderson of Fort Myers,” he noted.

Both of his endorsements are republicans which signifies a split in the party.

They’re trying to unseat incumbent Debbie Jordan who believes school board races should be non-partisan and the focus should always remain on the children and not politics.

“It is a non-partisan race but there are different ways of achieving things and for me it’s following the conservative mind set,” replied candidate Sam Fisher.

Fisher is another one of Miller’s candidates who is up against two other republicans.

Kathy Fanny is also running for school board and she stressed politics has no place in the school race and she wants party affiliation left out of it.

“The curriculum is not partisan and to make it so would under serve our school population,” Fanny said.

All of the openly republican candidates also said they support electing the next school superintendent.

That is an issue voters will decide in November.