Political Quotes

“We stand with local governments against this outrageous power grab by MAGA Republicans in Washington who are supporting book banning, suppression of historical facts about slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racial violence, and favoring top-down micromanagement of our local schools across America. Is there really a problem for parents like us with finding out what is in our public school libraries? Well, before you pass a massive new Federal law and a massive new unfunded mandate for our local governments, why don't you take the time to make a phone call? That is what I did. I called up the person who runs the school libraries for Montgomery County, Maryland, which has more than a million people there. I learned from Andrea Christman, who oversees all the media centers for our county, that the entire catalogue of 2.2 million books is online, freely available, and current as of today. Anybody can go online and find it right now. If all the info is out there, as local governments want it to be, then what is this about? Well, it is about book banning, of course. Mr. Chair, 2 years ago, more than 1,600 books were banned in the United States of America. Here are three of the key books that the rightwingers have been going after.…”