[LAW-LIB:56514] Sarah Palin supported banning books

From: Susan Lyons (govdocs@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 07:39:21 PDT

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    An article from Time Magazine's website has this bit of information that
    I thought might be of interest as we get ready for Banned Books Week:

    "Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs
    into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about
    banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had
    inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The
    librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news
    reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not
    giving "full support" to the mayor."

    Link to the full article:
    http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html

    Susan Lyons
    Rutgers Law Library - Newark



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