Good Luck in the Next Election

Well, this is where the rubber really meets the road, isn’t it? Tomorrow night, September 5th, the Warren County Board of Supervisors will vote on whether or not to withhold crucial operational funding from Samuels Public Library. Wow. The suspense is just killing me (JK). I think we all know how this political theater is going to go. It was pretty clear after the Library Board of Trustees meeting back in July that the little “Clean Up Samuels” cabal would be satisfied with nothing short of the library’s complete capitulation to their will. The library’s reasonable efforts to comply with the unreasonably vague directive to “protect children” were never going to be enough. And with at least two members of the BOS known to sympathize with — and even contribute to — CSL’s efforts to censor the LGBTQ community out of existence on the library shelves, I think we all knew how this was going to end.

So I say just cut to the chase and do it. Go ahead and close down the most beloved and widely used public resource in the county. You’ve already run off highly qualified and dedicated staff with your Nanny State nonsense. Take the next step and allow a fanatical few to deprive the moderate majority of library patrons of the public library services they regularly depend on. Lock the doors and turn off the lights at the library, and let’s see how long your tenures as Supervisors last. Good luck in the next election.

LA Kelly
Warren County, VA

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