Savannah’s five-term state senator, Ben Watson, has joined 18 other Georgia Republicans in the state’s upper chamber as a sponsor of legislation that takes aim at the oldest and largest library association in the world.
The measure, SB 390, would bar city, county and regional library trustees and the State University System of Georgia from using “any public or privately donated funds on any materials, services or operations offered by the American Library Association or any of its affiliates.”
Watson’s stance on an issue that has become part of Georgia’s culture wars is a surprise and indicates that even Republican incumbents are under pressure to tweak and burnish their political credentials in advance of Georgia’s primary elections in May.
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