Rapert tries to block funding for libraries suing Arkansas over 2023 obscenity law
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Google-News-Wire
- February 10, 2024
- Act 372
- American Library Association
- Arkansas Library Association
- arkansas state library
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- central arkansas library system
- craighead county
- crawford county
- Dan Sullivan
- jason rapert
- jennifer chilcoat
- lgbtq+
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- library books
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- national association of christian lawmakers
- shari bales
- timothy brooks
- Trend – LGBTQ Attacks
The Arkansas State Library Board voted unanimously on Friday to give public libraries their allotted quarterly share of state money after former state Sen. Jason Rapert tried to suspend funding for the libraries suing the state. The board authorized the disbursement of almost $1.4 million over the next couple of weeks, State Library Director Jennifer […]
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Arkansas Senate confirms former GOP Sen. Jason Rapert to state library board
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Google-News-Wire
- December 16, 2023
- 10 commandments monument
- Act 372
- american atheists
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- arkansas senate
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- breanne davis
- bryan king
- jane english
- jason rapert
- jimmy hickey
- lgbtq+
- libraries
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- national association of christian lawmakers
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- senate rules committee
- shari bales
- Ten Commandments
- Trend – LGBTQ Attacks
Former Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert, a Conway Republican who runs a national organization promoting conservative Christian public policies, became one of the newest members of the Arkansas State Library Board on Friday. A bipartisan group of 10 senators opposed Rapert’s appointment, which Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced in November. Twenty-two Senate Republicans voted to […]
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Appoints Homophobe to Arkansas Library Board
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s latest appointee to the State Library Board is a far-right activist who has claimed “activist teachers … are pushing homosexual pornography on minor children” and wants to defund public libraries that are challenging state censorship. Jason Rapert is a former state senator who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor last year. […]
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Arkansas governor appoints two conservatives to state library board amid lawsuit, content debate
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Google-News-Wire
- November 21, 2023
- Act 372
- arkansas state library
- central arkansas library system
- crawford county
- jason rapert
- judge kristine baker
- lgbtq+
- libraries
- matt brumley
- national association of christian lawmakers
- patty hector
- pulaski county special school district
- saline county
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- shari bales
- Trend – LGBTQ Attacks
Former Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert, a Conway Republican who founded the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, is one of the newest members of the Arkansas State Library Board at a time when children’s access to library materials is a subject of statewide debate. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a range of appointments to state […]
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