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Newly appointed Central Bucks Board President, Karen Smith, swearing in on a stack of banned/challenged books! 🔥🔥🔥
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She fought GOP board on censorship, then took oath on stack of banned books as new president
While most of the newly sworn in members to the Central Bucks school board chose to swear their oaths on a bible, incumbent Karen Smith brought a stack of books to Monday's meeting.
Smith stood out at the Dec. 4 reorganization meeting as she took her oath of office with her hand placed on top of six frequently banned and challenged books. Smith, who would be named president of the board, and the other Democrats on the board have long cried foul as the former GOP-majority forged ahead with controversial library policy that critics said was a defacto book ban.
Here's a breakdown of each book and why Smith said she chose them.
An “obvious choice”
Smith said “Night” by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel, which sat at the top of her stack, was probably the most “obvious choice” given the book’s involvement in a February controversy.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2023/12/05/karen-smith-sworn-in-central-bucks-banned-books-bucks-county-lgbtq-school-board-pa/71813461007/
While most of the newly sworn in members to the Central Bucks school board chose to swear their oaths on a bible, incumbent Karen Smith brought a stack of books to Monday's meeting.
Smith stood out at the Dec. 4 reorganization meeting as she took her oath of office with her hand placed on top of six frequently banned and challenged books. Smith, who would be named president of the board, and the other Democrats on the board have long cried foul as the former GOP-majority forged ahead with controversial library policy that critics said was a defacto book ban.
Here's a breakdown of each book and why Smith said she chose them.
An “obvious choice”
Smith said “Night” by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel, which sat at the top of her stack, was probably the most “obvious choice” given the book’s involvement in a February controversy.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2023/12/05/karen-smith-sworn-in-central-bucks-banned-books-bucks-county-lgbtq-school-board-pa/71813461007/
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I love this woman! 
Bucks County residents, librarians and school officials took a lot of crap from the Moms for Liberty know-nothings' group. The electorate made them pay and booted them into oblivion. This gesture is/was perfectly tailored--we take our oath to books, knowledge and education.