Hey, I might close for here real quick.
We're going to run through a quick update of what's going on in the library space,
because I know I'm tired of talking about libraries, too.
But, you know, the Lord said
we're going to be talking about libraries for a minute.
So here we are.
There's three different things
going on or that have gone on in the past a week or two.
So, Lafayette, finally, the the mayor, president
Monique Boulet has said it's cheaper to, to settle with the lunatics
and it is to defend against them, even though we would have ...
I say we...
even though the city would have crushed them in court,
because being disruptive in a public meeting is not a First Amendment right.
They're saying all this stuff like the judge said.
The judge didn't say anything. The judge says, oh, I have a settlement offer.
I'm signing a settlement offer.
Cheaper than paying lawyers.
By the way, their settlement amount is also cheaper than, tapping
someone's bumper in the local Target parking lot.
So, They're big.
Whew.
We won. Congratulations, guys. Now
go away.
Not likely. Not likely.
Then Livingston Parish. You're aware of this?
We had a tremendous victory.
So, by the way, Lafayette is a victory because the nuts are gone.
They didn't get anything other than their.
The settlement offer is they're not going to read
the statute on,
disturbing the peace in the public board meetings.
So instead, they're going to read what the parish council reads,
which is your it's effectively the same thing.
They just don't cite the statute number
a victory.
Livingston Parish, this just happened, this this this last week.
So six months ago,
the parish council, Ricky Goff and his infinite wisdom
decided he was going to wipe the board because the board is the problem.
My good friend Michel Parrish, the library director, is.
There's no reason why you need this. Never mind.
He didn't pay attention to the details, but he convinced the parish council
to fire the entire library board to protect Michel Parrish.
Six months ago, December ish.
The new library board comes in the very first thing on the agenda.
Surprise was to approve the contract
for the library or the head librarian, Michelle Parrish.
At the time, the then board president said, you know, it's probably not smart
to have our board members vote to approve a contract for someone whom we just met.
So we're going to delay this six months, so we're going to bring it back.
It'll be on the agenda.
We'll set it now six months from now, the contract will come up for renewal.
Okay. So now all the Wokies are. Oh, no.
We had no idea that you knew six months coming that this was happening.
And, I have to tell you, I knew six months ago
when I saw the council meet or the the library board meeting.
That's just going to happen.
So Michelle Parrish, the, the woke, library director
who actually gave us a lot of trouble, is now gone.
We did public records request. She'd blocked us from their Facebook.
Not that we ever went on their Facebook, but, they blocked it from their Facebook.
We did a records request asking for any records of anyone
blocked from their Facebook. They responded. None.
I want checked them, not blocked.
I go back the next week and I'm blocked again.
See, that's the kind of stuff she was doing.
She was, manipulating the budget, doing all kinds of stuff.
Anyway. Doesn't matter. She's gone now.
So we have Lafayette is under control.
We have Livingston now under control.
They're going to hire a new director.
You know, Jonathan Davis, who I whom I know, from for years now.
Good guy.
He is, he's kind of playing a little footsie
with the liberals, but you're the leftist.
You know, I, you know, I'm I'm, you know, I would do things differently,
but, you know, we'll see how it goes.
So, Jonathan, if you're watching.
Hey, man, close the door, brother.
Anyway, moving on to Saint Tammany
Parish on July the 10th.
It's been, a little while ago now. There was a public meeting.
They had two openings on their library board of control
and so I say opening say they were, they come up for reappointment every so often.
They had two apparently at one time that came up. And,
it's worth
listening to some of the people that showed up
to have their say because I think,
well, let's look at the statistical data
we have in Saint Tammany Parish.
By the way, I downloaded this off of the Secretary of State's website.
You can go get it yourself.
Geaux vote.
Geauxvote.com, and you go to the, statistical data and you can download
by parish.
This is Saint Tammany Parish statistical data.
And I'm going to let you know that only 21% of the parish are registered
Democrats.
Isn’t that interesting why am I talking about that?
The parish council, I pulled the parish council members.
There are 14 parish council members.
13 of them are Republicans.
One is a Democrat, 7% of the parish council is Democrat.
And yeah.
And yeah, at this library appointment meeting,
the Democrats of all people got the appointment
instead of the Republicans.
Isn’t that interesting.
Check this out.
I'm going to set the groundwork here with the Republican position
on, what the party thinks are the best people for the job.
So let's check it out.
Iris. Gallatin.
I really won't say a whole lot.
Because there's.
Been a lot said before me, but I do would like.
I think it's your duty, since a majority of the taxpayers are conservative.
And that typically means Republican for you,
it would be important for you to appoint Jill Kesler.
She's done an outstanding job
as well as Glenn Baham They're both conservative people.
They will do a good job with the Library Board of Control
and make sure that the library is managed in a way
that is consistent with the values of this parish.
Thank you.
So, Miss Irish
Gallatin, pretty much just saying things that, you and I would agree with.
Or actually anyone in the room,
effectively, we just want a safe space for our kids
to show up, and we don't want to be surprised
and have to be on our guard while we're in the public library with our kids.
Right? Easy. Easy.
No one would disagree with that.
No one that I know of now, again, I said Republican position.
Generally you can
you can perceive who is the conservative in these board meetings by who doesn't
use their entire three minutes and actually get their mic turned off.
So, her speech very short.
Another very short speech was the Republican parish
executive committee chairwoman.
Check this one out.
Susan Willie, RPEC chair.
I'm just up here to once again ask you all to consider Mr.
Glenn Baham and Miss Jill Kesler.
We from the RPEC board.
It's not just about politics.
It's about principles
and values of what needs to be done correctly.
For our kids that do enter into the library,
that it's a safe haven for them and an enjoyable experience
for the parents when they do bring their kids to the library.
So there she is, Susan Willie.
And let me let me read this.
So, in fact, the previous person who spoke Ms.
Iris also said that the positions that the people that she supports
for the two opening positions were Glenn Baham and Jill Kesler.
So we have established now the Republican Party.
And by the way, the Republican women also showed up, the Republican Women's Club.
Well, same same same same.
So I'm going to skip that one.
Just because we've got, you know, it's going to be a long video already, but
we've established who are the conservative applicants
to the library board in a 93%
supposedly Republican conservative majority on the council.
Those are the two folks. All right.
So we're going to skip that.
I'd like to skip to the end of the vote and show you that it went great,
but it didn't.
The Democrats actually got a victory.
Listen, though,
we've established okay, the parish council now knows the Republican position.
They all profess to be Republicans.
Now, listen to the Democrats.
Hi. Becky Bohm, I just would like to support Mr.
Sanders I don't have to say.
But, you know, I am tired of being called a pervert, a pedophile, a groomer.
There she is.
Becky Boehm is actually one of the folks that, is a feared, I guess.
I don't know, feared.
She assaults our Christian friends in Saint Tammany Parish
and gives them a hard time and, like, physically altercation kind of stuff.
Fisticuffs.
So, she shows up and she tells you who she supports.
Ms. Thanars.
Who's the Democrat running, to stay on the library board.
But, what's interesting is she starts laughing.
No one asked her question.
I mean, maybe someone behind her said something, but she starts laughing,
and then she says she is not those words that I probably shouldn't say, on camera
because, you know, people get in trouble for saying words like that.
But she called herself those things and said, she's not those things.
That's just very interesting, kind of that Freudian slip thing.
Again.
She's not the only one to do that, by the way.
That's what's so curious.
I support this person and I am not able to fill in the blank.
What is an action?
This is going to blow your mind.
This one. This one?
I should probably say to the end, but I would put it right here in the middle,
because this one will shock you.
Check this out.
My name is Susan Fryer I'm an R.N., retired school
teacher, public school teacher, science,
master's in education.
And I would like to support the candidacy of Dinah Thanars,
And you do not teach kids how to have critical reasoning skills
by shielding them from anything that may be a little different,
a little foreign to the belief system of the parents.
Banning books is never on the right side of history,
ever on the right side of history.
Do the right thing here.
Embrace the diversity of our community,
a community I've been in for about 30 years now.
Yes, we are here and we are staying.
We are diverse and we want to embrace your children
and have them learn the critical
thinking skills by being exposed to that diversity.
Thank you.
Shocking stuff. Shocking stuff.
Let me read you that last part again, because I'm struggling
really to wrap my head around, What?
This school teacher, by the way, school teacher had to say.
She says
embrace the diversity of our
community, a community I've been in 30 years, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, we're here and we're staying.
You remember that slogan.
We're here, we're queer, and we're in your face.
You remember that.
You remember that?
That sounds just like that.
And then she says,
we are diverse, which I found
is a code word for these people that want these vulgar books and the kids section.
They use diversity.
They want to diversify the children's section with vulgar content.
We're diverse.
We want to embrace your children and have them learn the critical
thinking skills of being exposed
to that diversity.
Exposed some of the things.
I took some notes while she was chatting.
But your school teacher.
Hello. Who?
Who are your children listening to?
Well, they're in school eight hours a day.
Well, maybe not eight, but, you know,
they're in school for hours a day listening to people
that say,
we're not going to shield them
from beliefs that their parents don't agree with.
That sounds very nefarious.
Book banning.
Never the right side of history. Standard language.
Next thing you know, she'll be calling people not to.
She may have, just not on this video and that the.
But we have someone else doing that a minute, by the way.
Embrace the diversity. We are diverse.
We want to embrace your children.
Shocking stuff.
By the way.
Who are we talking about here?
So this was.
And I pulled, we have a little dossier we keep on the local activists.
We have, the first woman in pink who was laughing that she is not a boob.
Fill in the blank.
That is Rebecca Boehm or Becky Boehm, I think the color or something.
She is, not registered to a political party that we can tell.
But she has adult children in our household who are registered Democrat.
And who is this,
this is Susan Fryer
Let's see if I have her. I'm sure I do.
I'm always check these people out.
Oh, here she is.
Susan.
Gay Fryer
Oh. Lord help us.
And she is registered Democrat. Surprise.
All right, so let's continue.
By the way, she supports Thanars Remember that support.
Thanars let's let's keep moving.
Good evening.
My name is Roxann Newman.
I came here tonight to,
speak in favor of Miss Thanars I'd like to.
I'm a little offended by the comments of the person who preceded me
in referring to normal board members and normal children.
this library system is for all children,
including children who are not so-called normal.
Normal is a spectrum.
And so to refer to normal people being on the board or normal children
is quite offensive to those of us who are parents of children
who might not fall within those parameters.
Roxanne,
normal is a spectrum, Roxanne says.
Let's let's also check our dossier.
Let's see what do we have here?
Roxanne.
Roxanne Newman.
Saint Tammany parish.
Registered Democrat.
Surprise. All right.
I think she she supports, Ms.
Thanars to be on the library board.
Another registered Democrat.
Never mind that 93% of the parish council are Republican.
Never mind.
Only 7% are Democrats, and only 21% of the entire parish are Democrats.
Never mind.
That's beside the point.
What is important is we need diversity.
It's easy, you see, it's,
Look, let me let me let her finish her thought because I.
Yeah, check it out. Check.
And I'd like to point out that when we were here last month,
I believe it was Mr.
Gowling who, admonish the other board members that they shouldn't be
appointing
library board members based on their political affiliation.
And so to have a series of people come before you and say
that they think people should be appointed because they're conservative,
I think is reprehensible.
There she is, by the way.
She, Roxanne is offended.
Offended that we would want to put that Republicans
or want to put conservative Republicans on the board offended.
And, Mr. Rolling. Larry. Rolling.
By the way, parish Council, district two, who is registered as a Republican,
says we shouldn't consider
party as, a prerequisite for them.
And yet he's not registered.
Is no party to run for parish council.
He's registered Republican. Why?
Why would he do that?
Probably because he couldn't get elected to parish council
unless he's registered Republican. You would think
they would know.
That's a big deal because they themselves are participating in the process.
Now, if they're not a Republican, they certainly can follow their heart
to the Democratic Party, which apparently, at least eight of them need to do.
But anyway, let's, let's let's continue down.
I don't know, this is getting a little long,
but let's, let's continue because these are fun to listen to.
So you know what these people are really thinking.
Check this one out.
They they don't get any better.
Lisa rose to Meyer Mandeville.
Good evening everybody. Thanks for listening to us again.
I'm going to echo what Roxanne just said about misses.
That Ms Thanars continuing to serve.
The extreme end of the conservative movement is keen on censorship.
It's right out of the Nazi playbook Here it is.
The bunch of Nazis,
but. Oh, Lord, you're censoring the books one.
But there are
there's no pornography in the library, but you're censoring the books.
But there's no pornography.
But you're censoring the books.
You're a Nazi.
I'm telling you, I know you think that this is all a bunch of foolishness.
These folks are every day.
This is all they think about.
Lisa.
Rustemeyer.
Registered Democrat.
Like, there’s a conga line of these folks.
Now, this last one.
This last one actually broke.
I say broke.
We have we have meetings. We call them secret lunch.
And they're so secret.
They're so very don't tell anybody.
We post them on social media and invite the public.
So she
she snuck into one of our public meetings.
And, and recorded it and said,
man, these conservatives are, you know, they said some pretty nefarious things.
And she said she recorded it. She could tell you what we said.
She didn't say anything.
She just says she recorded it like that's a big accomplishment.
Anyway, this is her.
It's, Jamie. What's her name? Jamie Segura.
The.
I had to finish with this one because this was probably the best one of the bunch.
Check it out.
this is ridiculous that you allow people to come up here
and go on and on and on about the terrible books in the library.
going to tell you right now
that, number one, I came up to speak on behalf of Miss
Diana Thanars Hear them laughing? I'm
not a pedophile.
I'm a taxpaying American.
But I am tired of this council demonizing
taxpaying citizens of this community because we might be,
well, let's say, lesbian. you.
We are not pedophiles.
We are not groomers.
We're taxpayers.
Yeah.
Maybe a Democrat.
There she is.
Jamie Segura I was I was going to tell you from our little dossier, that she,
that she's a Democrat,
but apparently I don't need to do that because she fessed up.
There we are.
And then, of course, we have Diane Thanars who we all know is Democrat.
Because she is.
But there that is, again, the Freudian slip.
I am not a fill in the blank.
That word that, that gets people in trouble.
So the Freudian slips continue.
They are not, those words and they are not after your.
There's no way they're after your children.
No way at all.
But they want you to appoint this Democrat to the board.
Now, how did the vote go? Let's let's do that.
I'm not going to play the video because it's actually quite long.
They carry on for a while.
So let's look at,
I'm going to rattle off the names and how they vote.
because I took notes.
So let's go through this real quick.
I'm just going to hit on the folks.
Let's just do it.
The stain Rs the voters were Ricky Smith, Republican voter for the Democrat.
Larry Rolling, the guy who says we shouldn't take party into consideration
or conservative or liberal, we shouldn't consider any of that stuff.
We should just pick, I don't know.
So if you don't consider whether they're conservative or leftist leaning,
and they want
all vulgar books in the library, what what do you make your decision on?
I don't know, Larry Rolling made his decision.
That was Ms.
Thanars, the Democrat, Martha, Cazalon.
I'm a mess up these names.
You know, we're from French Louisiana.
I'm not. You know, I'm not good on all of them.
She voted for Ms.
Thanars, Kathy Seiden was apparently absent.
Pat Phillips was there.
Pat voted correctly for, the both Republicans.
Cheryl Tanner, Republican, voted for Miss Thanars,
Joe Impastato voted for Thanars.
Then we had Pat Burke, David Cougle, Mo O'Brien,
and Author Laughlin all voted correctly for the Republican.
Then we had Jerry Binder.
We had, who voted for the Thanars Democrat.
Jeff Corbin, who we all know should really follow his heart
to the Democratic Party because he's literally doing all the Democrat things,
voted for the Democrat, and then, Gumby Strickland,
whoever Gumby Strickland is voted for the Democrat.
Thanars So that's it.
That's the vote. That's what happened.
Well that's it y'all.
What's going on?
You got three library issues.
The one in Lafayette.
We're victorious because we have to deal with these idiots anymore.
They're going away.
Number two.
So, we have Livingston, the where the director is gone.
Bye bye.
And then we have Saint Tammany, which is still, we still have the director there,
who's been battling against this for some years now, since the very beginning.
Very early on in the process, she's managed to hang on.
Perhaps if we, now that we have a little bit more free time
now that Lafayette is stable, Livingston is stable off to Saint Tammany.
All right, well, see you all in Saint Tammany soon.