Library fight gains new life
The fight to keep LGBT political propaganda displays out of Citrus County public libraries gained new life last week as county administrators agreed the application period for the Library Advisory Board should be reopened following the county's failure to announce the upcoming term expirations of five of the advisory board's nine members.
In a Jan. 21 email to commissioners, county administrator Randy Oliver admitted that the library advisory board seats with terms expiring at the end of this month were never announced or advertised, contrary to the county's practice with every other county advisory board. His admission came three days after a commission meeting in which he and County Attorney Denise Lyn, in response to a question from the Citrus Crusader, told commissioners the positions had been advertised and the application period was closed – which led the Crusader to file a public records request demanding proof of the alleged ad.
To explain staff's failure to announce the imminent term expirations, Oliver's email cited an administrative regulation that supposedly exempts the Library Advisory Board from announcement or advertising requirements when members' terms expire. But the taking of applications for other advisory boards identified in the same administrative regulation as also being exempted – including the Tourist Development Council and the Beverly Hills and Citrus Springs advisory councils – were all announced at recent county commission meetings with at least two weeks' notice.
In his email, Oliver admitted that the failure to announce the Library Advisory Board (LAB) term expirations "does not meet the spirit and intent of good governance."
"Consequently, to address the situation, we will request permission to advertise the upcoming expired terms/vacancies at the February 8, 2022 [county commission] meeting, allow two weeks for applications, and have nominations and appointments of LAB members at the March 8, 2022 [commission] meeting," wrote Oliver, who also announced on Friday that he will be resigning from his post no later than Nov. 29.
As has been previously reported, the Library Advisory Board is currently dominated by leftist ideologues who believe our public libraries should serve as LGBT propaganda centers during the month of June in celebration of "Gay Pride Month," with obnoxious displays featuring rainbow flags, political slogans and books promoting homosexuality and transgenderism to children. Keeping the public in the dark about the opportunity to unseat more than half the advisory board's members would have allowed their two-year terms to automatically renew.
Given the public outrage over the use of our public libraries to push LGBT propaganda – as evidenced by the standing-room-only crowd that showed up at the commission's Jan. 4 meeting to demand an end to the taxpayer-funded ideological displays – it's hard to imagine how the county administration's non-announcement of available positions on the library advisory board could have been an accidental oversight, especially since one of the three commissioners who shot down Chairman Ron Kitchen's bid to stop the displays kept arguing that any such decision should be left up to the advisory board, and that anyone who objected to the displays could simply apply to join that board. Residents will soon find out if that argument was sincere or just another smokescreen.
Meanwhile, the petition to stop LGBT ideological colonization of Citrus County continues to gather steam. Add your name today by clicking the link below:
I am so impressed with the waving of a finger at people not doing their jobs, that it has left me breathless & unable to say what I'm thinking
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