The League of Women Voters and Stevens are among the applicants who have been denied access under the newHe blamed liberal activists for abusing the law, not the citizens whose objections to certain books account for the majority of book removals from school libraries and classrooms. Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses. The change to the law “ensures that book challenges are limited for individuals, like Chaz, who do not have children with access to the school district’s materials,” DeSantis spokeswoman Julia Friedland said in an email. The Associated Press asked DeSantis’ office for examples of liberal activists abusing the law and it provided one: Chaz Stevens, a South Florida resident who has often lampooned government. The organization said liberal activists are not the ones who should be blamed for abusing the law. “I didn’t realize that I have the power of millions!”The PEN America report says Florida is responsible for 3,135 of the 4,349 school book bans in the United States so far this school year. ” Coincidentally, PEN America, a group that fights book bans, issued a report Tuesday saying Florida is responsible for 72% of the books that have been pulled from the nation’s schools in the first half of the current school year. Once challenged, a book has to be pulled from shelves until the school district resolves the complaint. It’s the folks who are taking liberties with the law who are the problem. “Chaz is not the problem. The Florida House Democrats on the floor — in our debate, in our questioning — pointed out the vagueness in the original law and how it could be subject to abuse,” she said. It’s not the only example of the tough-talking governor having to make adjustments to ideology he championed while seeking the White House. He also has made concessions in the settlement of several lawsuits involving the state and Walt Disney World.
