2 LGBT activists booted off library board

By John Labriola - Citrus County elected leaders decided not to renew the expiring terms of two liberal members of the Library Advisory Board (LAB) last week after hearing from dozens of residents who demanded the appointment of conservatives who won’t push the LGBT agenda.

“We have an obligation as parents to guard our children’s hearts and minds,” said Lee Spallas of Beverly Hills. “This community is conservative. We do not condone the LGBTQ agenda. Having so many people on the library board that represent that view is disproportionate to what the county looks like demographically.”

After 90 minutes of public input, the Library District Governing Body (made up of the five county commissioners plus one member each from the Inverness and Crystal River city councils) voted 4-2 to approve Commissioner Diana Finegan’s motion to reappoint conservative incumbents Mari-Elain Ebitz and Edith Ramlow and also appoint newcomers Lenora Jones-Nelson, Robert Bramlette and Burke Reagan to the three remaining seats with expiring terms. 

Finegan said she chose them because they had kept “out of the fray” of the LGBT controversy.

The decision ended the terms of longtime LAB members April McLaughlin and Neale Brennan, who had both supported "LGBT Pride Month" propaganda displays in the libraries and, in Brennan’s case, vocally opposed Citrus County’s decision last year to cut ties with the radical American Library Association and its Marxist lesbian president. 

The virtually unprecedented move to not reappoint two incumbent members to a county advisory board represented a major victory for Citrus County conservatives, who have been fighting for change on the LAB since the county library system's infamous LGBT Pride displays in June 2021, which were scrapped following intense public backlash.

Voting no on Finegan’s motion were far-left Commissioner Holly Davis and Ruthie Schlabach. Crystal River City Councilman Ken Brown was absent. 

Davis, a vocal supporter of LGBT propaganda displays targeting children, said she would have reappointed both Brennan and McLaughlin. 

Jones-Nelson is a longtime Citrus County school teacher who has previously spoken at public meetings to oppose inappropriate sexual orientation displays in the libraries. 

Bramlette, who moved to Citrus County in 2020, is a former elected trustee for the Flossmoor, Illinois Public Library and real estate lawyer.

Reagan is a retired public school teacher and vocational counselor.

The nine-member LAB makes policy and budget recommendations for the county's library system. 

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