Presidents are elected for a one-year term and decisions are made in conjunction with a 15-person executive board and 131-member elected council, the statement reads. The ALA is a non-partisan organization committed to serving people of all backgrounds and ideologies, according to a statement. One state, Montana, was successful in getting its state library to leave the ALA. Pennsylvania’s Freedom Caucus is one of many states’ freedom caucuses to call for disaffiliation.
In an interview with Jacobin Magazine, Drabinski said the ALA needed a president on “labor’s side.” After winning the ALA election, Drabinski tweeted “I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of I am so excited for what we will do together. In her news release last week about Drabinksi, Keefer cited Benjamin Franklin, who founded the nation’s first library.įranklin himself, under the pen name Silence Dogood, said “without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech” in a 1722 letter to the New England Courant.ĭrabinski’s Marxist ties are reflected in her views on labor reform. Had the representatives’ resolution succeeded, it would have disenfranchised millions of legal Pennsylvania voters. State and county officials, two state-mandated audits and dozens of court cases determined the election was fair and the results were accurate. Those Republicans cited baseless claims supporting former Pres.
In 2020, Keefer and 25 other House Republicans signed on to a resolution calling for the decertification of the election results.
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