What's the matter with Iowa? Kimmi the Clown's censorship binge

 

Headline:  Little Village, 10/25/2023

The impact of the book banning provisions in SF 496, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May, is becoming clearer as the Des Moines Register continues to update its database of books pulled from classrooms and school libraries. 

“More than 1,000 books have already been removed from 39 public school districts,” the Register reported on Wednesday. But that just represents the number of books removed in the 12 percent of Iowa’s 326 school districts that have responded to the paper’s open records requests so far.  [emphasis added]

SF 496 requires public school districts to remove all books with “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” except for approved science or health class texts. It also prohibits “any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion or instruction” referencing sexual identity or gender orientation in primary schools.

This is the book that really has the Iowa GOP's undies in a bundle.

Plenty of copies in the South Central Library system, in both print and electronic formats.

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2023

September 

Transphobia run amok.  (9/13)

Clown Show US House delegation goose-stepping with Freedom Caucus crazies.  (9/13/2023)

Kimmi the Clown's happy talk and twisted priorities.  (9/8)

GOP voters boogie their way to doomsday with Vivek climate change is a hoax Ramaswamy.  (9/4)

GOP in-your-face racism and homophobia.  (9/2)

August

Kimmi the Clowns power grab. (8/31)

Kimmi the Clown's warped priorities.  (8/30)

Majority of most Iowa GOP caucusgoers.  (8/23)

GOP hypocrisy and Kimmi the Clown's crackpot education policies.  (8/10)

What's the matter with Iowa?  Kimmi the Clown's frantic antics.  (8/3)

July

GOP legislators are at the beck and call of Bob Vander Putz.  (7/13)

Bluenoses are in charge.  (7/12/) 

What's the matter with Iowa?  Political clowns like Attorney General Brenna Bird.  (7/11)

Kimmi the Clown spends too much time with her shovel.  (7/10/2023)

June

Abortion foes at Iowa March for Life attempt to wag the dog.  (6/25)

What;s the matter with Iowa?  The list grows longer and longer.  (6/26)

May

Kimmi the Clown's misplaced priorities!  (5/30/2023)

This is the real Iowa.  (5/20)

Republicans in Iowa House remain squeamish about birth control.  (5/12)

April

Sexual Aversion Disorder and homophobia is running rampant within the ranks.  (4/20)

What's the matter with Iowa?  An increasing lack of transparency.  (4/19)

Iowa GOP fights crime and inflation by watering down child labor laws.  (4/18)

GOP fights crime and inflation by restricting SNAP benefits.  (4/16)

Attorney General Brenna Bird fights crime by freezing funds for emergency contraception.  (4/9)

March

Trump snookered old, rural white folks who identified with his racism in most of the states 99 counties.  (3/21) 

What's the matter with Iowa?  Plenty!  (3/18)

January

What's the matter with Iowa?  Well, you can start at the top of state government.  (1/14)

2022

It looks like a case of cause and effect.  (11/9)

2021

Actually, it appears that 58% of Iowans, many of them nice, are slowly being poisoned to death.  (11/26)

What's the matter with Iowa?  (series)

2018

What's the matter with Iowa? Health benefit plans mean you're screwed when it comes to pre-existing conditions.  (10/5)