Thursday, August 20, 2026

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Opposes Explicit Books In Schools, Pleas for Parents to Act to Get These Books Removed, Calls Out School Librarians

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (speaking at a press conference):
It's about the dirty, filthy, and vulgar books in our school libraries.  Last session we passed Senate Bill 13 by Angela Paxton that would remove these books.  These are books that are so disgusting, so filthy, so dirty, so vulgar, so p[*]rnographic that for the ladies here, I wouldn't even open it and show you.  I wouldn't show my wife.  I didn’t show the female senators last session.  I had the books to hand out, we passed the bill, but I did it without, you know, if someone wanted to take the book for themselves, and I'm gonna give you a copy, everyone here, you can decide not to look at it or you can.  And if you're offended, understand these books are on our library shelves.  
Many books are on our library shelves, in all of our schools.  Over 2,000 titles of filthy, dirty, vulgar books.  So when I talked to Bonnie Wallace about it in the interview it just took off and I said parents wanna know about this and the purpose of this press conference today is to get parents in action to get these books removed.  
Senate Bill 13 says they should be removed.  But what we’re finding out is about 80% of the school districts have not done anything, and some school districts push back, even when they're told about the books they have.  Some superintendents don't know what's on the shelves, teachers don't know what's on the shelves, the librarians know.  
The librarians are the ones responsible.  The American association of librarian [ed: American Library Association] is one of the, librarians. is one of the most leftist, woke groups in America.  They train our librarians and they think these are just fine.  And I can assure you that, and I'm not, I can't always be positive about everything in life, but I would say 90% plus of parents or grandparents would not want their children seeing any of these books.
The video is a roughly two-minute clip from a Texas Senate press conference by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. He is holding up a book titled Let's Talk About It and discussing the continued presence of explicit books in school libraries despite the law, the failure of many schools to remove them, and the role of school librarians as to why such books are on the shelves in the first place and why they remain there despite the law.

Watch here:


And here is his conversation with Bonnie Wallace to which he refers. By the way, Bonnie Wallace is a member of World Library Association:


All these parents being sued by school librarians, including myself? We now have a state lieutenant governor saying essentially what we have been saying for which ALA has been provoking people to sue.

Let me add that if anyone in Texas seeks to TPIA/FOIA their schools for information about this, you'll find the documents provided will be slim pickings. Why? Texas Library Association and American Library Association's Dorcas Hand trains librarians how to evade open government laws by using personal contacts and devices, precisely to keep parents and legislators in the dark despite the law. ALA librarians will do anything to keep indoctrinating children, as Dan Patrick confirms above:
Now let's see the entire press conference, straight from the Lieutenant Governor:

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