Have you heard that Palin tried to get BOOKS banned from?

Question

the Library? Wonder if it had to do with abstinence. lol.

Answer 1

There are all kinds of books that are banned from public libraries.  Huckleberry Finn is one of them.  Catcher in the Rye is another.  Then we have The Grapes of Wrath.  And who can forget the American Heritage Dictionary?

Why aren't you complaining about that?  Is the potential to ban books a worse thought to you than actually banning books?

Answer 2

How do you do that???That Palin is one dumb woman

Answer 3

Yes as a mayor. And no they were not about abstinence

but about "inappropriate" language some of her taliban

voters did not like.

Answer 4

If she gets Evangelical Christian support I'm sure Harry Potter will be banned soon.  Can't discuss that magic stuff.

I like that your answer is to say other books are banned.  As the husband of a Librarian we fight banning books everyday.  To allow them to censor writing is against the constitution, but Repubs know everything about that.

Answer 5

No but I'm certainly not surprised.  She's a bit of a crackpot.

Answer 6

Wouldn't surprise me!

Answer 7

what were they? why my daddy loves uncle bill? or me and my two moms.

Answer 8

Yes, and she tried to have the librarian fired when the librarian wouldn't comply. Town citizens rallied to the support of the librarian, and she stayed on for two years, but then left.

Curisously this librarian will not give an interview about Palin or the book banning incident.

And there is yet another person whom Palin tried to get rid of who won't give an interview about the incident with Palin.

Is there a pattern here?

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Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books, though she never followed through and it was unclear which books or passages were in question.

Ann Kilkenny, a Democrat who said she attended every City Council meeting in Ms. Palin’s first year in office, said Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said.

"The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support. Ms. Emmons, who left her job and Wasilla a couple of years later, declined to comment for this article."

"Ms. Palin also upended the town’s traditional ways with a surprise edict: No employee was to talk to the news media without her permission."

"Ms. Palin, her critics note, was not always the fiscal watchdog she has since boasted of being. In her second term as mayor, she pushed for a half-cent raise in the local sales tax to pay for a $15 million sports complex. The complex is popular and a junior league hockey team plays there now, but the city recently had to pay more than $1.3 million to settle an ownership dispute over the site. "

"Just as Ms. Palin terminated employees on her way into office, she also let some go on the way out, including Mr. Cramer. When Ms. Palin completed her second and final term, in 2002, her stepmother-in-law, Faye Palin, was running to succeed her. It seemed like a good idea, except that Faye Palin supported abortion rights and was registered as unaffiliated, not Republican, people who remember the race said. Sarah Palin sided instead with Dianne M. Keller, a religious conservative and an ally on the City Council. Ms. Keller won. "