Missouri House Republicans Vote To Defund Libraries

[g5000]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

 

[WinterBorn]

Dammit. Leave libraries alone. They don't cost much, relatively speaking, and provide huge resources to every community.

 

[MarathonMike]

Do people go to libraries any more?

 

[Moonglow]

Do people go to libraries any more?

Evidently yes if they need funding.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

If I remember that class correctly, the Missouri constitution guarantees the building, maintenance, and funding of state libraries.

 

[Moonglow]

Damn if the Republicans don't want to be tyrants.

 

[Moonglow]

If I remember that class correctly, the Missouri constitution guarantees the building, maintenance, and funding of state libraries.

The GOP doesn't care about the Constitution nor do they care about rights, nor do they care about anyone's liberties, just their will to force people to submit to their form of over reach.

 

[two_iron]

Sounds like the MO House is saying get your faggot porn on pornhub like normal queers, not in state-funded libraries.

 

[WinterBorn]

Do people go to libraries any more?

I have been to ours, and there always seem to be people there. Between the books and the computers with internet access, they stay pretty busy.

 

[Jessica-stormlover]

The American taliban doesn't disappoint! They live off of stupidity and idiocy.

 

[MarathonMike]

Evidently yes if they need funding.

I thought libraries were going the way of pay phone booths. Why do people go to libraries?

 

[Moonglow]

I thought libraries were going the way of pay phone booths. Why do people go to libraries?

To peruse.

 

[White 6]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

I guess school libraries are easy prey for legislature and this was a Nazi-like attempt to attack public libraries, to force them to ban books in public libraries and to silence attempt to speak out or sue.

 

[WinterBorn]

I thought libraries were going the way of pay phone booths. Why do people go to libraries?

It is one of the few places you can go that no one expects you to spend money.

But real reasons? Books. Books of all sorts and all topics. Recent best sellers to reference materials.

Also, internet access on their computers. Very well monitored and kept.

 

[MarathonMike]

It is one of the few places you can go that no one expects you to spend money.

But real reasons? Books. Books of all sorts and all topics. Recent best sellers to reference materials.

Also, internet access on their computers. Very well monitored and kept.

Perhaps there are more cost effective options to provide books and services than the large investment in a library.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Perhaps there are more cost effective options to provide books and services than the large investment in a library.

Such as? Anything that saves the public's money but delivers the public's needs.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

heartlandsignal.com

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

[snip]

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.


I guess those Republicans don't like reading. Especially their state Constitution:

Section 10. Free public libraries—declaration of policy—state aid to local public libraries.—It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to promote the establishment and development of free public libraries and to accept the obligation of their support by the state and its subdivisions and municipalities in such manner as may be provided by law. When any such subdivision or municipality supports a free library, the general assembly shall grant aid to such public library in such manner and in such amounts as may be provided by law.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Publications/CurrentMissouriConstitution.pdf?v=202212

If the left is going to use these services as a vehicle to get porn to kids then by all means end the funding.

 

[MarathonMike]

Such as? Anything that saves the public's money but delivers the public's needs.

Free eBooks. Then they can spend the money they save on the costs of building and maintaining a library to more important community needs.

 

[okfine]

I thought libraries were going the way of pay phone booths. Why do people go to libraries?

People with a brain roam the stacks finding something to read.

 

[MarathonMike]

People with a brain roam the stacks finding something to read.

State budgets are extremely stressed and they need to look for ways they can spend the money more efficiently to serve the people. Spending millions to build and maintain a library full of dusty books is not efficient spending.