LGBT Bait and Switch

Citrus County administrators have pulled another bait and switch on those fighting to keep LGBT propaganda displays targeting children out of Citrus County public libraries.

Last month, County Administrator Randy Oliver agreed to reopen the application period for the Library Advisory Board (LAB) after admitting the county had failed to announce the term expirations of five of the advisory board's nine members, despite previously assuring commissioners that the positions had been advertised. In a Jan. 21 email to commissioners, Oliver outlined a plan for the commission to announce and approve advertising for the LAB positions at their Feb. 8 meeting, take applications from the public, and make appointments on March 8. 

But on Feb. 8, County Attorney Denise Lyn told commissioners that the positions could not be advertised because the resolution governing the LAB gives its members lifetime terms – something no other county advisory board has (although Lyn's assertion appears to rest on a novel interpretation of the resolution, which only states that members with expiring terms are "eligible for reappointment," not automatically reappointed if they wish to remain). Lyn said changing the resolution to eliminate lifelong appointments would require a special meeting of the Library Governing Board, a rarely convened body made up of the five county commissioners plus one member each of the Inverness and Crystal River city councils. She added that any appointments to the LAB, such as in the case of vacancies due to resignations, must be made by the Library Governing Board, not the County Commission – despite the fact that all past vacancies have been filled by the County Commission alone.  

Lyn offered no explanation or excuse for why she either didn't know or failed to share these bombshell revelations at any time over the last several months amid growing public outrage over library displays pushing LGBT ideology, which have had the strong backing of the leftist-dominated LAB. When a standing-room-only crowd packed the commission chamber on Jan. 4 to demand an end to the taxpayer-funded propaganda, the commission narrowly rejected a proposal by Chairman Ron Kitchen to stop the displays after Commissioner Holly Davis insisted that such a decision should be left up to the LAB and that commissioners who were not happy with the library displays could simply appoint new members to that advisory board. 

Why didn't Lyn tell commissioners that Davis' argument – which evidently carried the day – actually held no water, since LAB members supposedly serve for life? Did she simply not bother to research the issue before that critical meeting despite months of commission discussion on a topic that has generated such intense public interest? 

Following Lyn's revelation, Kitchen and Commissioner Scott Carnahan said the LAB's preposterous, undemocratic and never previously revealed or enforced governing regulations must be "cleaned up."

"This lifetime term thing needs to come to an end to make it so it's like our other boards," Kitchen said.

Commissioners agreed to convene a special meeting of the Library Governing Board next month to consider changes to the resolution governing the LAB – including ending lifetime appointments and having the commission, not the Library Governing Board, make appointments. The meeting will take place during the County Commission's March 8 meeting beginning at 1 p.m. in the Citrus County Courthouse, 110 N. Apopka Ave., in Inverness. Be sure to mark your calendar to attend and make your voice heard!

Meanwhile, please continue emailing the commissioners. And add your name to the petition to stop LGBT ideological colonization of Citrus County:

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