Tuesday, April 1, 2025

My Experience As a Conservative Library Board Member In a Blue County: 'People Like Me Need Your Support'

My Experience As a Conservative Library Board Member In a Blue County

I feel a little uneasy and out of place as I enter an unfamiliar branch. My home branch that I can be found in every week is quaint and homey compared to this one. I am about to attend my first library board meeting, this time as a member of the public, but soon as a full-fledged appointed member. It isn't long before I encounter my first (of many) obstacles: a locked door.

The door can only be opened with an employee key card. I knock awkwardly on it unsure if I'm even in the right place. There are no signs, or anything else to let me know. I'm buzzed in and I sheepishly ask about the meeting, which is indeed in a room on the inside. The room has a big table in the center and a few extra chairs pushed up against the wall. I am the only member of the public attending, and it becomes all too clear that constituents are a very rare site. The message is clear from the get-go: you aren't part of our club.

The meetings always follow the same sort of ritual. Staff give a presentation, the director gives some updates, and each board member has an opportunity to speak.

I didn't have any experience in the local political theater before this, so my expectations were certainly romanticized. I pictured passionate men and women debating library policy and action. I fantasized about joining their ranks and working together through respectful debate to best utilize tax payer money. I was wrong.

When we finally reached the end of the meeting, I was so excited. I eagerly awaited to know what each board member would use their time to bring up. What flaw in the system was most pressing to them? What ideas had they been toying with? My anticipation faded to disappointment as each of them thanked the staff member for their presentation before ceding the floor to the next member. Maybe this was just a fluke? Nope.

Sometimes, a member will use this opportunity to promote a leftwing political cause or the work of their nonprofit, but that's all the variety I get. You hear the same vapid sentiments over and over. They tell the board how happy they are to "support" the library, especially during "these times" (whatever that means).

Is the job of a library board member to support the library? I certainly don't think so. Our job is to support the taxpayer, specifically the voting taxpayer who elected the official who then appointed us. Am I supposed to be supporting the director? No, I'm supposed to be making sure he doesn't run amok with money that he didn't earn. I'm supposed to hold the library accountable. I suppose I am alone in that sentiment, at least from where I sit.

I was expecting the director to separate politics from his working life, but I was wrong about that too. I naively thought that it would be unprofessional for the director to allow his political stances to spill into his work. Not only does it "spill into" his work, it is an inseparable part of his work. Every meeting, the director gives a "legislative update." This update is pitched as an opportunity for him to update us on bills at the state and federal level how they may affect the system. He uses this segment to complain about our state's extremely popular conservative government and boasts about work he does with the state's ALA chapter to thwart bills he doesn't like. The other members laugh and mock along with him while I sit in silence.

Of course, none of this rhetoric makes it into the meeting minutes. With no public there to hold these people accountable, they feel more than comfortable throwing professionalism out the window.

After doing some research (and reading Dan's blog), I've come to understand that the American Library Association does not only encourage library professionals to use their profession as a vehicle for leftist activism, they condemn those professionals that do not do so enthusiastically.

My experiences on the board are often depressing. I often feel like everyone hates me, and accountability for unelected bureaucrats is a distant unreachable fantasy. I keep showing up because I know it is important. I know that many of these people have no contact with anyone else who doesn't share their views, and that I have to represent people like me.

There are many people like me who are hurting from government overspending, and who are appalled by inappropriate books littering the children's section of their library. These people don't necessarily have the time to go to a government meeting smack dab in the middle of the work day.

If you have the time, even just to write a letter, it would be invaluable. Government accountability starts with all of us. People like me need your support.

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Friday, March 28, 2025

Librarians Collude with ALA to Violate Open Government Laws and Dox Citizens; Kelly LaRocca in St. Tammany Parish Library Is a Prime Example

Why might a strong privacy policy be needed in your library? Librarians collude with American Library Association in Chicago, Illinois, to violate open government records. They even provide ALA with private information about their own citizens.

In Louisiana, "award" winning St. Tammany Parish Library Director Kelly LaRocca is a prime example. She began turning records over to ALA then likely followed ALA's direction to use personal emails to hide such submissions from open government laws. She recently admitted publicly to providing information to ALA but claimed she no longer does. I believe she still does, only she follows ALA advice to use personal emails. She says she doesn't. But the very entity that gave her an "award" trains librarians in how to hide information from the public—and I'm the investigative reporter who uncovered that and reported it.

And all this to hide that the people being doxxed are complaining about access by children to explicit material the whole world thinks is inappropriate for children, except ALA, its member librarians, and the members of the hundreds of local groups it creates, like St. Tammany Library Alliance. The latter, for example, denied that Kelly LaRocca admitted to turning private information over to ALA, even after Ms. LaRocca admitted she did.

Documents turned over to ALA are then made available to other librarians who use the documents to mock parents in forums like a Facebook group called ALA Think Tank (since renamed Library Think Tank to hide the association with ALA, but it's still in the URL). Worse, sometimes the documents are used to sue people who are then mocked in court papers for the contents of these confidential documents.

It's like a free gift to ALA. They get free Freedom of Information Act request responses without even having to ask for the information in the first place. Then they get to use the documents to feed to their friends to sue parents and teachers who submitted those documents so as to further intimidate other people who dare to ever challenge any inappropriate material for children in any library.

St. Tammany Parish Library Board of Control has put a stop to this waste of local services that only serves to arm an outside group against its own citizens and against children nationwide. It did so at a public hearing where a resolution to stop sending information to ALA either publicly or privately was passed unanimously.

Hear the entire hearing here:

"LBOC Meeting - March 24, 2025," 2025. https://vimeo.com/1069935835.

Here are links to specific points of interest, the first being where discussion of the privacy resolution begins:

"Resolution No. 25-003 Resolution to Amend Rules and Regulations of the St. Tammany Parish Library Board of Control Section 202 Regarding Privacy Policy (Branton)" https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=78m08s
St. Tammany Parish Councilman David Cougle speaks: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=85m47s

He speaks about the specifics of the problem and the connection to ALA and its Unite Against Book Bans and EveryLibrary
He says the problem involves the concerns of parents with s3xually explicit materials were required to fill out a form (called a "Statement of Concern") that was ultimately turned over to ALA without notice to the parents
He says library director Kelly LaRocca wrote to ALA with confidential documents and ALA's "Office for Intellectual Freedom" wrote back saying the information would be stored in a "confidential" database
He points out multiple librarians were involved in the invasion of privacy
He says library employees discussed how book challenges were reported to both ALA and its subgroup EveryLibrary, a group also based in Illinois.
He discusses documents revealed by FOIA request, and those documents are shown below
He points out the violation of privacy may be ongoing because of ALA direction to use personal emails (pictured and linked below)
He points out the library employees were using taxpayer time and taxpayer resources to support a political campaign of ALA, including fundraising for ALA's "book ban" hoax organization called Unite Against Book Bans, and US Department of Education recently revealed it was all an ALA hoax
He points out ALA did not request redactions of personal information
He pointed out an outside organization in Chicago was obtaining a free service for which local citizens would have to pay
He says these activities were a violation of the trust of parish residents and was an improper use of taxpayer funds and time
He says parish residents names could still be retained in ALA's "confidential" database
David Cougle speaks again here: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=130m14s

"There's a public records law that all of the people are supposed to follow and what was happening in this instance is somehow the ALA was skipping the line that the rest of us are obligated to follow"
"But for some reason the American Library Association was jumping in front of St. Tammany taxpayers and residents and getting it immediately, and that's what this needs to address and that can't happen anymore"

Devin McGee speaks: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=90m43s

He speaks in favor of the privacy resolution regarding PII and exposes just how harmful is ALA, including a man bullied by "loud, aggressive, well funded activists" who "swarm" people then threaten them. "Our reaction is their real action."
He says library director Kelly LaRocca lied to him that the library has nothing to to with ALA, yet public records says otherwise
He says the language of "book banning" is an intentional misuse of language to deceive
"The entire ALA organization is rotten from the root and steeped in leftist communism milieu control"
He says shelving books properly based on content is not "bans"
Here he is with his signs before the meeting started:

St. Tammany Parish Library Director Kelly LaRocca speaks: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=100m07s

ALA has an online form to fill out
"I did fill out the form which is why you have it in public records request"
"I was not using my personal email address"
"I don't have time for that"
"we have a spreadsheet on the website" - has the name but other information is redacted
As to the Statements of Concern about books (not about displays), "no, they were not reported to the ALA"—although that contradicts written evidence that library employees discussed how book challenges were reported to both ALA and its subgroup EveryLibrary, a group also based in Illinois

St. Tammany Parish Library Vice President of Library Board of Control Charles Branton speaks: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=112m55s

He drafted the privacy resolution and he now goes into detail on his support for the resolution
He points out how he has "a problem" with ALA requesting and getting private information while their stated goals are not in conformity with the people of the parish

Privacy Resolution read out in full: https://vimeo.com/1069935835#t=140m33s

Here is where ALA tells librarians to use private means to submit the private documents, emphasis in original:

Personal email address *
Please provide a personal email address to protect the confidentiality of our communications. We encourage you to review your state's FOIA or Open Records laws concerning your personal email account. ALA is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of our communications.

Source: https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/report

Here is where a Louisiana school librarian trains other librarians to use personal devices to hide information (about inappropriate books for children) from open government laws:

Here is that same librarian writing her parent-precluding policies into her book that's a best seller among librarians, such as to use the Signal app to hide things:

Louisiana Library Association training to hide things from open government laws is relevant to the St. Tammany library matter where the library director says they are no longer reporting to ALA. Yet they are trained to use personal devices. Does anyone think the pipeline to ALA has been cut off? Nope, it's just gone underground, in my opinion.

By the way, ALA created the local library "alliance" called St. Tammany Library Alliance. Because it acts for Chicago's ALA, it flat out lied about what Kelly LaRocca said, "In case you missed it, at last night’s library board meeting, the director officially stated for the record that no personal information of library patrons was shared with the American Library Association." No, LaRocca said, "I did fill out the form which is why you have it in public records request" and she said she revealed at least names to ALA. Also, documents prove information was turned over to ALA.

This is why privacy resolutions locking out ALA and all its tentacles are needed. Essentially it protects citizens from harassment by ALA-created local groups and by ALA itself, its affiliates and partners.

Librarians need to be clear they work for the citizens, not ALA, and if they are caught lying, it's sayōnara sister.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ADDED SAME DAY OF INITIAL PUBLICATION:

This page is being modified to remove the graphic in the upper right and replace it with a new one. This action is taken in response to an official request to remove the graphic that I received on the same day of publication, and I'm responding on the same day:

Dear Mr. Kleinman:

Any use of the St. Tammany Parish Government logo on the “SafeLibraries” blog is a
violation of STPG’s official service mark. The STPG logo is registered with the Louisiana
Secretary of State and it may not be used by third parties without STPG’s express consent.

Please remove the STPG logo from the SafeLibraries’ March 28, 2025, post, and any other
post displaying the logo at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Here are graphics of the official request:

Well, isn't this interesting:

Who knew? Seems to me that the parish government acted properly to police and protect its intellectual property. So no complaints from me.

If only the library acted properly as well to police and protect the privacy of its citizens, but they answer to a higher power: Chicago's ALA. Just today, Texas school librarian Carolyn Foote, on a podcast called "School Librarians United," said, "But I also think the strategic behind-the-scenes work right now for, for all of us is so important to moving the issues we care about." I'm certain Kelly LaRocca would agree with that 100%.

School librarian Carolyn Foote admits today @LMS_United librarians work in a hidden way to push political issues they want.

“But I also think the strategic behind-the-scenes work right now for, for all of us is so important to moving the issues we care about.”#txlege #lalege pic.twitter.com/S5d2HkameI
— Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries® (@SexHarassed) March 29, 2025

This is the second time I've been asked to remove material by Louisiana governments. I always respond as soon as I can. In the first instance I had to removed an entire transcript for which I paid money to obtain an accurate rendition. See here:

"Audiotape of St. Tammany Parish Republican Pol Proves Perilous; Trump and Christians Attacked, P-rn Promoted, ALA Protected - CENSORED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 19 February 2025.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Time to Stop Being Bullied by Librarians; The Election Is Over, They Lost

The election is over, they lost big, now it's time to stop being bullied by librarians. One of American Library Association's lead propagandists started community organizing to intimidate and bully the Lebanon Township Committee in New Jersey over a small library closing. I learned of the bullying campaign from the propagandist. So I used the emails see listed to write to the Committee.

Here's what I wrote, and it applies everywhere, not just in NJ, and anyone may copy this without need for any attribution to me:

Greetings Lebanon Township Committee:

This is a notice of outside influence regarding the closing of Bunnvale Library. I, myself, do not take a position either way nor do I even know the circumstance/reasoning nor have I ever even heard of the library before.

This email is to advise that if you see a sudden bump in interest relating to the library, particularly with respect to the decision to close the library, particularly in opposition to the closing of the library, it is likely astroturfed by someone from outside your community who is American Library Association [ALA] affiliated and trained to pressure local boards and commissions into thinking the majority of the public wants the governmental body to decide what ALA in Chicago, IL, would decide but doesn't otherwise have the power to force such a decision.

Martha Hickson, a former school librarian at North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School, is the community organizing ringleader. She gets the bullying campaign up and running in multiple New Jersey communities, and now in yours. For example, she attended Roxbury NJ BOE meetings where she handed out placards for the large audience she attracted to wave with an ALA trademark, namely, "Free People Read Freely." As if children in schools have a First Amendment right to read what NJ 2C:34-3 proscribes or what the US Supreme Court in Board of Education v. Pico ruled they did not have a right to read.

Regarding Lebanon Township, on March 22 she sent out a message on social media (Bluesky), one of her primary means of community organizing, the following message, "Hunterdon NJ is an anti-library region on par w Florida. LGBTQ+ books have been attacked for 4 years. Now town fathers are closing Bunnvale Library, a vital resource for educational programs, access to books & a safe space for all ages. E-mail the Lebanon Twp Comm before 4/2 to save the library." She then adds a graphic saying, "The Library Staff had NO WARNING!!" and listing all your emails and phone numbers. She follows up with an additional post of hers providing just your emails. Indeed, that's where I got your email addresses and even learned of this issue in the first place when someone alerted me.

In a subsequent post dated today, March 23, she adds that she is hopeful the people she has already community organized in other of her campaigns will again spring into action, rent-a-mob style, "To be fair, though, a segment of the N Hunterdon community has risen up time and again to support libraries and push back against the anti-library MAGA crowd. Let's hope they show up for the Bunnvale Library."

I'll save you all the details about how Martha Hickson is so good at rabble rousing that ALA leaders publicly praise her and have adopted her work as their own, New Jersey passed ALA's Right to Read Act because of Martha Hickson, and she's now in a Sarah Jessica Parker film called, "The Librarians." Suffice to say she is one of ALA's top agitators, she lives in New Jersey, and she rabble rouses across the state.

Hence, if you see a sudden outpouring of interest in your public duties, and if that sudden interest vehemently opposes you, it is likely astroturfed, meaning fake grass roots, whipped up by a professional community organizer seeking to mislead communities into imposing the will of Chicago's American Library Association.

By the way, the BOE where she used to work did indeed adopt the will of ALA instead of NJ citizens seeking application of obscenity law 2C:34-3, so that likely violated school board ethics laws, so I filed an ethics complaint and it is pending. (I've now been called "intolerable" by Guy Citron for filing that ethics complaint. I say this because I bet he will get involved in your local matter as he is another one bullying BOEs and commissions statewide, spurred on by Martha Hickson.) Martha Hickson was able to get about 400 people to show at meetings versus two parents who opposed obscenity (as defined in NJ law) in the school library. The massive bullying effort worked. The kids retain access to obscenity in violation of NJ law and US Supreme Court precedent.

The point is some governmental bodies are indeed pressured so greatly that they fold to the braying mob. Don't be like them. Fortunately, you now know ahead of time that the community organization manipulation campaign for ALA has already started. Hopefully that knowledge will help you see through the miasma to ensure compliance with local law, common sense, and community standards, instead of being bullied into accepting what Chicago's ALA would have you do if it only had the power.

Notice too it's not only what ALA would have you do but it's also with the bullying method of name calling, like "the anti-library MAGA crowd." It's ad hominem argument, not honest debate. It's bullying. I don't know you but I bet you are not "anti-library" and are likely pro-library, as it were. As to "MAGA crowd," that's projection for her ALA crowd and it implies undue influence, also projection. As to MAGA, that's now proven to be the majority of the country. Most people now want to make America great again and stop giving social security benefits to people who are older than the USA itself. Martha Hickson opposes that. She doesn't realize yet that she's now in the minority, or maybe she does and wants us to live in the past because it suits her political goals. She doesn't realize people are done with the bullying tactics that she's employing, like she is now in Lebanon Township.

ALA itself has been greatly trimmed back by having its "book ban" hoax be exposed by the US Department of Education, a hoax it itself engendered in the first place with "long-term inoculation." There's no more need to be intimidated by ALA or any local acolytes, no matter how much outside pressure you receive.

So please make the decision that's best for Lebanon Township, not the one that's best for Chicago's ALA that's using bullying tactics and name calling via local community organizers to try to force its way.

Thank you and good luck. Should you wish me to provide primary sources for any statement I made, please let me know.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Dan Kleinman Is Intolerable, Not School Librarians Harming School Children; Guy Citron's Triple Decker Defamation

Dan Kleinman is intolerable, not school librarians harming school children, according to "guest commentator" Guy Citron at the Hunterdon Review, Whippany, NJ, pictured top right, photo credit Hunterdon Review:

"COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated," by Guest Commentator Guy Citron, Hunterdon Review, 7 March 2025, updated 11 March 2025.

By way of fair use, I will reprint the article then comment on it, to see if the claim of my being intolerable is projection.

As we shall see, Guy Citron himself is the intolerable one, making multiple defamatory claims about me, then he commits a significant deception to include what appears to be the defamatory statements of former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson. I have also caught him in the act of colluding with Michael Gottesman to commit defamation per se.

So school librarians harming children aren't the problem, I am, to Guy Citron. He decides to personally defame me, piling on Martha Hickson defaming me and making a deceptive edit to do it, then further piling on Michael Gottesman defaming me.

It's like a triple decker defamation by Citron et alia. A trifecta of transgressors, shown below. "Guest propagandist" would have been more accurate than "guest commentator." Perhaps "guest gaslighter."

With so much heat, I might be over the target. Ya think?

COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated

In 2025, it seems that [SO FAR SO GOOD, FALLS OFF A CLIFF HEREAFTER] far right-wing extremism [STARTS RIGHT OFF WITH POLITICAL NAME CALLING] may dominate business at the North Hunterdon – Voorhees Regional High School Board of Education [USES THAT POLITICAL NAME CALLING AGAINST AN ENTIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION].

To win their seats, instead of representing the community’s needs [FALSE], a majority of the members who have been serveing [sic] as of January 2025 spread hate [FALSE] about books, librarians, and school libraries. They were helped by radical [FALSE] politicians and outside influencers [FALSE, PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL] like Dan Kleinman, an intruder [FALSE] who is wholly unserious about improving public education [NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME. I ADDRESS HARM IN LIBRARIES AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO CAUSES TO LIBRARY PATRONS AND EMPLOYEES INCLUDING LIBRARIANS NATIONWIDE].

In what appears to be a grudge with the American Library Association [FALSE, I INVESTIGATE AND REPORT ON ALA, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GRUDGE, AS LONG AS THEY KEEP HARMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, I'LL KEEP REPORTING], Kleinman has spent decades [TRUE? TWENTY FIVE YEARS] crusading [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM, NOT CRUSADING] against your family’s right to read books [FALSE, READ WHATEVER YOU LIKE]. To fake credibility [FALSE, I HAVE 25 YEARS OF CREDIBILITY, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT CALLING ME AN EXPERT ON ALA DECEPTION], he created the World Library Association and Safe Libraries, neither entity having credentials or [sic] authority in librarianship [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST ON ALA AT SAFELIBRARIES, WORLD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION JUST STARTED SO IT WILL GROW, AND I HAVE BEEN A VOLUNTEER LIBRARIAN FOR TWO YEARS].

Furthermore, rather than tackling real challenges at school [FALSE, A SCHOOL LIBRARIAN POTENTIALLY VIOLATING NJ OBSCENITY LAW 2C:34-3, ETC., IS A REAL CHALLENGE AT SCHOOL, SO MUCH SO THE SCHOOL SPENT YEARS CONSIDERING THE ISSUE] – like smartphones – Kleinman preaches [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] ad nauseam [FALSE, IS A JOURNALIST SUPPOSED TO DO A SINGLE STORY THEN MOVE ON? HOW OFTEN DID WE HEAR RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA? AD NAUSEAM, BUT THAT'S OKAY TO GUY SKEWERING ME FOR PERSISTENCE] that the sky is falling because of librarians and library books [FALSE, REAL CHILDREN ARE REALLY BEING HARMED BY SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, LIKE MAIA POET]. Worst of all, the librarians Kleinman targets [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST, THEY ARE SUBJECTS OF MY JOURNALISM, NOT TARGETS] endure harassment [FALSE, BUT I'M BEING SUED TO SILENCE ME ON THIS VERY POINT, AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, I SHOULD NOT COMMENT FURTHER, WHICH OF COURSE GUY CITRON AND OTHERS WILL USE AGAINST ME], false accusations [FALSE, ALMOST ALL OF MY REPORTING INCLUDES PRIMARY SOURCES UPON WHICH I REPORT, OFTEN I TURN THOSE SOURCES INTO TRANSCRIPTS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE CONTEXT], and invasions of privacy [FALSE, AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE TO WHAT HE IS REFERRING, EXCEPT PERHAPS SOMETHING IN THAT CASE I SHOULD NOT DISCUSS] to the point of harm [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST].

Now, Kleinman has been exposed as a national bully [FALSE, IN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY]. In November, one of his most famous victims [FALSE, BUT I SHOULD NOT SAY MORE], Amanda Jones, Louisiana school librarian and author of the best-selling [FALSE, BUT LIKELY TRUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE OF LIBRARIANS] book “That Librarian,” filed a suit [FALSE, SHE FILED TWO SUITS, ONE IN NEW JERSEY THEN AN IDENTICAL ONE IN LOUISIANA, BOTH LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF MY GIVE SEND GO PAGE HE PROVIDES BELOW BUT LATER STEALTH EDITS OUT] against him for defamation and false light.

Jones served Kleinman, via proxy [FALSE, VIA THE HUSBAND OF FORMER SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AT THAT SCHOOL, AND THE "SERVICE" WAS AN ENVELOPE INTENTIONALLY MADE HARD TO OPEN BY MARTHA HICKSON SO I WOULD SUPPOSEDLY SUFFER MORE WHILE OPENING IT—THAT's RETALIATION, NOT SERVICE], at the school board’s Tuesday, Nov. 26. meeting.

There, he sat with local allies [AS WE ALL DO, EVEN GUY CITRON SAT WITH HIS LOCAL ALLIES AND INDEED VIDEO TAPED ME WHEN MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDED ME A MANILA ENVELOPE, A VIDEO THAT WAS SHARED BY MARTHA HICKSON WITH MANY A GLOATING SCHOOL LIBRARIAN AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WHO COMMENTED ON MY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE], including failed board candidate [FALSE. IT'S GOOD THAT PEOPLE RUN FOR PUBLIC BOARDS. SOME LOSE. THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM FAILED, IT JUST ADDS TO THE PROJECTION BY GUY AGAINST ME] Eric Licwinko, Steven Piontek, a Union Township resident known for shouting curses at meetings [FALSE, HE'S KNOWN FOR CARING TO SHOW UP AT BOARD MEETINGS OUT OF CONCERN FOR HIS CHILDREN, A SUPER POSITIVE TRAIT, AND SOMETIMES THINGS GET HEATED, BUT GUY CITRON CAN'T STOP PUTTING HIS POLITICAL CART BEFORE THE HORSE], and newly elected board member Richard Lordi [FALSE, BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT MY ALLIES, THEY ARE IMPARTIAL, AND TO THE EXTENT THEY AREN'T, ETHICS CHARGES COULD BE FILED AGAINST THEM, SOMETHING I HAVE DONE BECAUSE GUY CITRON'S ALLIES ON THE BOARD REALLY ARE LITERALLY PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, HENCE THEY ARE ALLIES, TO NEVER REMOVING INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY DESPITE THE OBSCENITY LAW, SO WHENEVER A BOARD DELIBERATES, THE ALLIES HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS IN VIOLATION OF LAW, BUT THAT CASE IS PENDING SO ONLY THE FUTURE KNOWS].

Jones had to find Kleinman at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees district [FALSE, IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE, BUT GUY CITRON'S FILMING OF MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDING ME A MANILA ENVELOPE SURE MADE FOR GREAT THEATRE FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND ALA LEADERS], his frequent haunt [FALSE, AND AGAIN GUY IS MOCKING SOMEONE ATTENDING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS IN WHAT BY NOW GIVEN THE REPETITION IS AN INTIMIDATION TACTIC TO KEEP PARENTS HE OPPOSES OR WOULD OPPOSE OUT OF SUCH MEETINGS], because while he has claimed to reside [FALSE] in Chatham and Bee Cave, Texas, both of those addresses point to UPS Store-style mailboxes rather than actual dwellings.

Here are some examples of Kleinman’s behavior:

• Kleinman has posted abusive [FALSE] statements about recently retired North Hunterdon High School librarian Martha Hickson more than 150 times and counting since 2021 via X/Twitter at https://x.com/SexHarassed, Facebook, and his own blog [PERHAPS, BUT HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON HAS PERSISTENTLY BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR THAT LONG, AND HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON MAY HAVE VIOLATED OBSCENITY LAW NJ 2C:34-3]. Some of those posts include https://tinyurl.com/3x57rev2, https://tinyurl.com/hpz92ce9, https://tinyurl.com/58c5s557.

• In January, he stole into [FALSE, AND POTENTIALLY DEFAMATORY IN AND OF ITSELF TO ALLEGE TRESPASS] the North Hunterdon High School library after hours [FALSE, THE LIBRARY WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT THAT TIME AND WAS IN USE BY THE PUBLIC, TRUE MARTHA HICKSON PUTS BLACK PAPER OVER THE WINDOWS SO NO ONE CAN LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY WHEN SHE IS THERE, BUT MARTHA HICKSON WAS NOT THERE AT THE TIME TO KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED], to take photos of Hickson’s workspace for later online harassment [FALSE, AGAIN, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND IT IS NEWSWORTHY THAT THERE WAS A GIANT SIGN OF MARTHA HICKSON WINNING A LUCRATIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ETC., IF I RECALL THE SIGN WAS PLACED HIGHER THAN I'M TALL—REMEMBER LUCRATIVE BECAUSE LATER GUY WILL MAKE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ABOUT MY ALLEGEDLY BEING PAID TO ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, AS IF I WOULD JEOPARDIZE MY 25 YEAR JOURNALISM CAREER TO GET PAID TO ATTEND A FEW BOARD MEETINGS]. He bragged [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM] about it and posted photos. The school also has security footage showing Kleinman walking around the library on the evening of Jan. 28, 2024 [I DID NOT KNOW AND I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE. BUT IT IS CURIOUS THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD NOT MAKE VIDEO TAPES AVAILABLE TO A PARENT WHERE HE CLAIMED HE SAW MARTHA HICKSON TOOK A STUDENT OR STUDENTS INTO HER OFFICE AFTER HOURS. ANYWAY, IT APPEARS I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO OPRA, INCLUDING HOW IN THE WORLD DID A PRIVATE CITIZEN LEARN THAT THE SCHOOL HAS TAPES OF ME IN THE LIBRARY]. The photo is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

• At the June school board meeting, he sat alongside Piontek, who read a six-minute tantrum against Hickson almost certainly authored by Kleinman [FALSE, AND THE BOARD LET'S PEOPLE SPEAK FOR ONLY THREE MINUTES, AND OF COURSE GUY CITRON WOULD MISLABEL IT AS A TANTRUM, AGAIN COMPLAINING ABOUT A PARENT SPEAKING UP AT A BOARD MEETING, SOMETHING EVERYONE ELSE ENCOURAGES, GENERALLY SPEAKING].

• Kleinman has submitted to the board office multiple time-wasting [FALSE] OPRA (Open Public Records Act) requests to gain access to Hickson’s personal social media account, over which the district has no access or control [FALSE IN THAT PER A VIDEO OF MARTHA HICKSON SPEAKING FROM WITHIN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY SOLICITING WORK-RELATED MESSAGES VIA HER PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT, THOSE MESSAGES SHOULD BE UNDER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL, AND A RECENT NEW JERSEY CASE JUST FOUND OPRA COMPRISES WORK-RELATED MESSAGES EVEN IF THEY ARE IN PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS].

• He has filed ethics charges against eight North Hunterdon-Voorhees board members simply because they followed policy in deciding to retain a book challenged by Licwinko [FALSE, AND THE FULL COMPLAINT CAN BE SEEN ONLINE BUT APPARENTLY GUY IS ONLY HERE TO SMEAR: "Ethics Complaint: North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education"].

Kleinman’s antics [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, JOURNALISTS FILE OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS ALL THE TIME, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DO SO TOO AND SOMETIMES USE THEM TO DOX AND HARASS PARENTS SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED 24 HOUR POLICE PROTECTION, SO YET AGAIN IT'S ONE SIDED PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] come at a cost. In terms of personnel time and legal fees, the district is spending your tax dollars to respond to his delusions [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND THE PROBLEM IS THE POTENTIAL ILLEGALITY AND IMPROPRIETY, AND JOURNALISTS REPORT ON SUCH PROBLEMS].

Thankfully, Kleinman’s “work” [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, NO SCARE QUOTES NEEDED] has been repeatedly rejected by school officials [FALSE IN THAT SOMETIMES ITS ACCEPTED, POBODY'S NERFECT], he has failed to get books banned [FALSE, I OPPOSE BOOK BANNING AS DOES THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THOUGH EXPLICIT BOOKS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES IS A DIFFERENT STORY AND ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSED PER MULTIPLE POLLS], and despite his deranged [FALSE, HE'S MOCKING MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE NOW JUST TO SMEAR ME, AND HE'S AGAIN BORDERING ON DEFAMATION PER SE] certainty of her wrongdoing, he has been unable to get Hickson arrested [FALSE, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY EFFORT TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST MARTHA HICKSON NOR ANYONE ELSE. MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FIRST BEFORE CHARGES ARE BROUGHT].

How has Kleinman latched on to our district? His local social media friends include Licwinko, Piontek, sitting board member Nicole Gallo [FALSE], board member Lordi [FALSE], and Christopher Stadulis, husband of sitting member Cynthia Reyes-Stadulis [FALSE, I HAVEN'T "LATCHED ON" BECAUSE OF FRIENDS].

Gallo even parroted [FALSE, IT WAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED SHE WON THE ELECTION BY SAYING SHE WAS A MARXIST AND SHE WOULD WIELD POWER WITHIN ALA ACCORDINGLY] some of Kleinman’s most ludicrous talking points at the June meeting: the American Library Association (ALA) is Marxist, “the ALA’s president is a known, self-admitted, Marxist lesbian who promotes Queer Theory,” and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) “has a fist as a rose” to represent Marxism. “Marxists,” for those unfamiliar, are boogey-monsters [FALSE, AS WE CAN SEE WE RIGHT THERE WHERE THE NEW ALA PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED SHE WAS MARXIST AND WOULD NOW "WIELD POWER" WITHIN ALA. "SOLIDARITY," SHE SAID. SHE WOULD LATER GO ON TO TELL FORMERLY JAILED MARXISTS AT THE SOCIALISM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO THAT SHE NEEDS THEIR HELP IN TURNING LIBRARIES INTO SITES FOR SOCIALISM TRAINING. SEE https://karlyn.substack.com/p/exclusive-recording-american-library] who exist only in far right-wing propaganda [FALSE, AGAIN WITH THE NAME CALLING]. The video is at about 3:17:30 on the board meeting video viewable at https://www.youtube.com/live/GXtyvkApHKg.

And why, despite his repeated failures [FALSE], does Kleinman keep coming back to this school board [AGAIN HE'S DISCOURAGING ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS]? Who is funding Kleinman’s performances at these board meetings? His local contacts provide some clues.

One word: money. Just like the carpetbaggers of old, he accepts cold, hard cash in the form of a $1,000 per board meeting as an appearance fee [FALSE, IS THIS THE THIRD TIME NOW WITH THE DEFAMATION?].

In a Feb. 12 message exchange with a supporter of public education [FALSE, HE'S REFERRING TO MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, A SUPPORTER OF INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN ("PUSHING ALL KINDS OF NON SENSE IN NEW JERSEY SCHOOL, SUCH AS THE S@X ED CURRICULUM AND GENDER IDEOLOGY" SAYS @WAKEUPNJ ON X), NOT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. IN GUY'S WORLD, EVERYONE ON HIS SIDE (LIKE @WAKEUPNJ SUMMARIZES)) IS AN ANGEL SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND EVERYONE ON THE OTHER SIDE SEEKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HARM IS DERANGED AND IS GRIFTING], Kleinman admitted [FALSE, JOKED WOULD BE THE ACCURATE TERM, BUT GUY DID NOT ASK ME NOR INVESTIGATE, HE JUST WENT AHEAD WITH A FALSE STORY BECAUSE IT ALIGNED WITH HIS OWN BELIEFS, AND HE MALIGNS ME FOR FILING OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH BEFORE I REPORT. I JOKED BECAUSE THIS GUY GOTTESMAN HAS NEVER SPOKEN WITH ME BEFORE, AT LEAST NOT ON FACEBOOK, AND HIS FIRST STATEMENT TO ME WAS, "JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE TO SPEAK AT BOARD OF ED MEETINGS?" WHAT AN ODD OPENING STATEMENT. SO I PLAYED ALONG TO EXPOSE THE NETWORKS. AND HERE'S GUY CITRON DEFAMING ME AS A GRIFTER WITH A PRIVATE MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK THAT HE GOT DIRECTLY FROM MICHAEL GOTTESMAN. THERE'S YOUR NETWORKS. SCHOOL LIBRARIANS COLLUDE WITH EACH OTHER BEHIND THE SCENES (I'VE REPORTED THIS IN AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE INSTANCES) AND HERE WE HAVE GUY CITRON PUBLISHING A PRIVATE MESSAGE JUST TO SMEAR ME AND WITHOUT FIRST FACT CHECKING. HE COULD HAVE FILED AN OPRA WITH THE SCHOOL, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SEE IF I WAS PAID FOR THE TIMES I SPOKE. HE DIDN'T. HE WAS JUST INTERESTED IN THE SMEAR, NOT IN THE TRUTH. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER THE TARGET HAVE TO ENDURE], “I have to make money somehow… so I charge a token amount of $1,000 for three minutes of speaking, but I usually stick around for the whole meeting.” A photo of the screenshot of this message is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

Also, Kleinman is now openly soliciting for donations online to pay the legal bills he’s racking up at https://www.givesendgo.com/LegalFundForParents [SIGNIFICANT DECEPTION BY GUY CITRON. THE FIRST VERSION OF HIS WRITING INCLUDED THE URL TO MY GIVE SEND GO THAT I PUT IN BOLD TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT HE ULTIMATELY DELETED. THE UPDATED VERSION'S FIRST SIGNIFICANT EDIT WAS TO DELETE THE URL. THAT'S INTENTIONAL DECEPTION. AND IT REVEALS HE ONLY WANTS PEOPLE TO HEAR HIS FALSE VIEW AND NOT GO TO MY PUBLICATION TO READ THE TRUTH. ALA LIBRARIANS AND SUPPORTERS DO THIS ROUTINELY TO SUFFOCATE ANY OPPOSITION AND NOT GIVE IT OXYGEN; JUST GO THERE AND LOOK AT THE COMMENTS TO SEE I'M BEING SMEARED RIGHT IN THE COMMENTS OF THE GIVE SEND GO, AND GUY CITRON IS HERE TO PUT THOSE SMEARS INTO PRINT AS THAT'S ANOTHER THING HE ADDS VIA STEALTH EDIT. THAT'S WHAT GUY CITRON HAS DONE HERE. COMPARE VERSION 1 (Mar 7, 2025) https://archive.ph/3Vi6Y with VERSION 2 (Mar 7, 2025 Updated Mar 11, 2025) https://archive.ph/jhtMG IN THE SECOND VERSION, NOTICE HE ADDED THOSE COMMENTS SMEARING ME IN MY GIVE SEND GO: "So desperate is Kleinman to pick your pocket that he is falsely claiming that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial target of his abuse; she has reported the fraud to both the fundraising platform and law enforcement". MARTHA HICKSON IS POSTING ABOUT THIS COMMENTARY BY GUY CITRON CURRENTLY SO YOU KNOW SHE AND GUY CITRON ARE COLLUDING ON THE SMEAR. I THINK WE CAN SEE WHO IS THE INTOLERABLE ONE HERE, AND IT'S NOT ME]. So desperate [FALSE] is Kleinman to pick your pocket [FALSE, AND THIS MAY BE THE FOURTH INSTANCE OF HIS DEFAMATION OF ME] that he is falsely claiming [FALSE] that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial [FALSE] target [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] of his abuse [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM]; she has reported the fraud [FALSE, THIS IS HIS FIFTH INSTANCE OF DEFAMATION, DEFAMATION PER SE IN THIS CASE] to both the fundraising platform [FALSE? HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE] and law enforcement [FALSE? HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE]. In 2024, Kleinman spoke at three of our meetings and likely authored the remarks for a fourth, totaling maybe $4,000 in “appearance fees.” [FALSE. I DON'T CHARGE FEES. I DO THIS AS PART OF MY 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON HOW ALA HARMS COMMUNITIES. MARTHA HICKSON INVITED ALA INTO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, AND YOU DON'T HEAR GUY CITRON COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT, COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW FOLLOWING ALA'S ADVICE FROM CHICAGO IS REALLY THE CAUSE OF ALL THE EXPENDITURES. AGAIN. IT'S PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] This provokes panic [FALSE], cycles his engagement [FALSE], and begs serious questions [FALSE]:

• Just what is Kleinman’s standing within our community? That answer is none [FALSE]. Kleinman doesn’t live here, has never lived here, and has no children in the district. And yet he was again at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25. No one wants a national bully [FALSE, IF THERE IS ANY NATIONAL BULLY INVOLVED, IT IS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND ITS LOCAL ACOLYTE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AND HER COCONSPIRATOR GUY CITRON] as an un-elected official. Yet here we are. We, the sensible [FALSE, IT IS NOT SENSIBLE TO INVITE IN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO INDOCTRINATE COMMUNITY CHILDREN AND VIOLATE LOCAL LAWS, COMMUNITY STANDARDS, AND COMMON SENSE], education-focused public must fight [FALSE, ALWAYS WITH THE WORD FIGHT WITH THESE PEOPLE] back. Attend school board meetings, question business not related to school, and speak out against tax-dollar wasting [FALSE], expert agitators [FALSE], like Kleinman.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Audiotape of St. Tammany Parish Republican Pol Proves Perilous; Trump and Christians Attacked, P-rn Promoted, ALA Protected - CENSORED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

In breaking news, here is a transcript of, and audio recording by, former St. Tammany Parish Library Board of Control member William (Bill) R. McHugh, III, speaking with St. Tammany Parish Council District 13 Councilman Jeff Corbin, pictured top right. This recording was intended for use in a lawsuit Mr. McHugh just lost big as described here:

"ALA Loses in Louisiana US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Parr v Cougle," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 11 February 2025.

The recording was discussed in local media here:

"After Dustup Between Republicans, St. Tammany Council Elects Jeff Corbin as Vice Chair," by Willie Swett, NOLA.com, 7 December 2024.

And here is the telephone conversation and its politically-charged nature discussed by Citizens for a New Louisiana on 19 November 2024:

My personal favorite parts of the conversation are where they talk about a law defunding the American Library Association. Love that! And it's going to happen more and more now that the US Department of Education exposed the "book ban" hoax and DEI is dead. And they tell themselves they aren't "gr[00]ming" children. We all wish it were that simple.

Now, below is the transcript and here is the transcript and full recording synched together for your listening and re-listening pleasure: TRANSCRIPT AND RECORDING BY BILL McHUGH OF JEFF CORBIN HERE [CENSORED PER ORDER OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 22ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, WASHINGTON — ST. TAMMANY PARISHES, CIVIL DIVISION, 214954 KOOP DR, 2G, MANDEVILLE LA 70471].

It's very rare to see a politician, Republican, no less, and a library board member so interested in keeping kids exposed to inappropriate material that they feel people must serve on and stay on library boards to keep out the Christians and the Trump supporters who oppose harming children per American Library Association's 60 years of effort. But there it is, res ipsa loquitur.

It happens all the time, it's just rare that it got recorded, reported, and we get to see it. Sad. Were I residing there, I know for whom I wouldn't vote, nor for any of their supporters or supporting library "alliances," especially not the one ALA created.

TRANSCRIPT:

[CENSORED PER ORDER OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 22ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, WASHINGTON — ST. TAMMANY PARISHES, CIVIL DIVISION, 214954 KOOP DR, 2G, MANDEVILLE LA 70471]