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The Guardian Reports: A bill has been proposed by a state congressman from the bottom left corner of Missouri.
by SamReidHughes 7y ago
The Guardian Reports: A bill has been proposed by a state congressman from the bottom left corner of Missouri.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoHaving actually read the bill: https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills201/hlrbillspdf/4634H.01I.pdf https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills201/hlrbillspdf/4634H... It's clearly trolling for votes. In some ways it's ridiculous. It could be charitably characterized as a "local control over public libraries" bill. A reasonable sounding proposition that librarians can't use their font of tax money to corrupt the vulnerable children, with, I don't know, whatever it is libraries do to corrupt children. Are they distributing drag queen pop-up books now? Disappointingly, unlike what the bill's name implies, there is no requirement that the board consist of parents. The election procedure for the board. It's to be held at a regularly scheduled hearing for your county or whatever jurisdictional unit applies (which the bill is completely vague about) for whoever bothers to show up. Rep. Baker is lying (or bad at drafting) when he says “Even the bill specifies it wouldn’t be taken out of the library, it would just be put in a section that’s not for children.” The bill says, "Remove from public access to minors," which really means "remove from public access."