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County Pulls Funding From Library Association

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The Lake County Commission on Tuesday by unanimous vote moved to withdraw funding support for the American Library Association and its Florida affiliate, the Florida Library Association. The move represents a roughly $3,000 cash withdrawal, a small amount in the county's overall budget, but for commissioners, the vote was about more than money. "The ALA has been a proponent…of questionable activities that don't really line up with what most people think should be going on in Lake County," said Commissioner Leslie Campione, who had brought the topic forward for discussion on Tuesday. The ALA has made national headlines in recent months, as backlash has grown to its support of alternative lifestyle choices for children of all ages, including drag programs for youth, sexually explicit content in books for beginning readers, and other ‘indoctrination’ programs designed to support Marxist ideology through library operations. A large group of citizens spoke in support of pulling

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