Candidates in a fight to the fin initial in the state that is matter most. The president racking up the miles on air force one hitting seven states in two days. This is the first stop on our 48hour fly around Campaign Marathon extravaganza. Were going to pull an allnighter. No sleep. Were starting here in iowa. Were going to colorado. Then were going to go to nevada. Then were going to florida, virginia, ohio. I am going to stop in chicago to vote. And right now, mitt romney is speaking in nevada. He and paul ryan focusing there hoping to sweet the spot of 270 electoral votes. Ohio is the key to that math with 18 votes on its own. More money has been spent on ads in the Buckeye State than any other. 177 million worth so far. Did it help anyone . Theyre polling neck and neck there as they are nationwide in the real clear politics poll average and look at the the Washington Post abc news poll. I think thats one person. Thats about as close as you can get in one of those polls. We start n
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organized to get a book off the library shelf. harris: wow. that s offensive. what about all the black churches in our nation? do you know we got through the 50s and 60s. those black christians were part of the movement. that s a lot. the texas state library commission cut ties with the american library association and pull funding and one republican state lawmaker calls it a win for all taxpayers. here it is. i think people are fed up not just having sort of this ultra liberal extremist marxist socialist ideology forced upon them and their kids. they are sick and tired of having to be the ones that pay for it themselves through their hard earned tax dollars. first of all, to call people that would put up any type of fight or push back against your idea of what you want to turn libraries into an angry white
provided to parents? well, victor. that bill imposes a huge administrative burden on schools and school libraries that ultimately don t serve the purpose for which they have stated, um, already any parent can log in to school libraries catalog and see the list of books that s on the library shelf. already librarians are anxious to work with parents to talk to them to help them guide their child s reading. it s a solution in search of a problem that simply doesn t exist, but what it will do is empower these political groups. these political advocacy campaigns that are seeking to impose, uh censorship on school libraries and public libraries to remove books that represent the lives of marginalized communities. and that narrow our ability to read to one political viewpoint, which no one should be able to do. ultimately we believe in
we know that these attacks are narrowing educational opportunities. denying young people the ability to look into new different lives, different experiences, understand others, understand themselves. and by taking away books that reflect their lived experience as persons of color, as lgbtq persons, they are being denied the opportunity to see themselves in the shelf of the library shelf, but worse, we know from the research that not having access to diverse books actually results in poorer educational outcomes. we ve looked at this research, we actually have a white paper available on our website at unite against good book bans.org that demonstrates that access to diverse materials, to the lives and experiences of people of all sorts. it s very important for improved educational outcomes and more importantly, improved student health. we know this. we hear from students at hearings where there are demands