AR Library Board Member Wants Colleagues ‘Tarred And Feathered’
Right-wing extremism is exactly what Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders must have wanted when she appointed former state Rep. Jason Rapert to the Arkansas state library board. And that’s what she got. Right Wing Watch reported that he has been “regularly lashing out at his fellow board members for refusing to support his far-right agenda and complaining that he’s been experiencing a ‘hostile work environment’ because he is ‘a Christian white male.’”
Pobrecito!
I don’t know where in the Bible, the Constitution or the library board bylaws it says torturing your enemies is the way to deal with differences of opinion. But that’s obviously Rapert’s preferred way to work things out. As a member of my own local library board, I always thought it my duty to encourage people to read, not push them away from material I don’t like.
But Rapert clearly thinks his job as a board member is to police and limit what Americans read.