Friends,
In my last email, I talked about the effort the State Freedom Caucus Network has launched to get state and local libraries to divest from the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA is an entity that has existed for over 100 years and has become the backbone of our nation’s library system. It is to libraries what Google is to the Internet.
And much like Big Tech corporations, the ALA has used their immense power over our nation’s librares to push a radical, left-wing agenda onto our children. The president of their organization is a self described “Marxist”, they once gave an award to George Soros, and they are fully in support of sexually explicit content being available to children in school libraries. They were even caught back in June circulating instructions to their members to sabotage conservative events being held at public libraries.
They are perfectly fine with drag queen story hours but object when conservative celebrity Kirk Cameron goes to a public library to read to children. Our friends at the American Accountability Foundation also recently published an in-depth report on ALA’s woke agenda that you should read.
In addition to pushing their radical agenda, the ALA also gets thousands of tax dollars in dues from state and local libraries all over the country. State Freedom Caucuses will always fight against the indoctrination of our children, especially when your money is being used in order to do it, and are putting the pressure on their state’s library associations to cut all ties with the ALA.
Earlier in July, Montana’s Library Association became the first to break away from the ALA in an unanimous vote and we are stepping up the pressure for more states to follow their lead. Last week, I joined twelve other leaders of prominent conservative organizations, including Citizens for Renewing America and Eagle Forum, in a coalition letter calling on all states to stop taxpayer dollars from going to this Marxist organization that seeks to indoctrinate our kids.
Read more about the letter and the path forward in the Federalist.
Wyoming:
We have written extensively in our emails about the unprecedented betrayal of the conservative base from Wyoming’s “Republican” Speaker of the House Albert Sommers at the end of the last legislative session. He singlehandedly blocked bills for universal school choice, to ban pediatric sex changes, and to stop indoctrination in schools.
Well, the Department of Corrections in the Cowboy State, which Donald Trump won by a larger percentage than any other in the 2020 election, announced the other day that they will be allowing biological men to be housed in women’s prisons.
The WYFC immediately erupted, calling on the Department of Corrections to reverse this policy.
In response, the Department of Corrections relented and clarified that male inmates will not be in contact with female inmates.
Freedom Caucuses will always fight to protect women in their private spaces.
Arizona
The good folks at the Arizona Free Enterprise Club released their 2023 scorecard for Arizona’s most recent legislative session. It’s no surprise that Arizona Freedom Caucus members were all at the top. Every single one of them received a perfect 100% score.
When a lawmaker is in a state freedom caucus, there is high expectation that they be consistently conservative. And the Arizona Freedom Caucus did not let us down.
Keep fighting,
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
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