{"id":302,"date":"2024-09-03T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/?p=302"},"modified":"2024-09-03T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:05:25","slug":"maga-extremists-like-burgess-owens-and-ken-ivory-want-to-decide-what-your-children-are-allowed-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Extremists Like Burgess Owens And Ken Ivory Want To Decide What Your Children Are Allowed to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 3, 2024, Salt Lake City &#8211; <\/strong>UDP Executive Director Thom DeSirant released the following statement today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn August 29, MAGA Extremist Ken Ivory invited election-denying Congressman Burgess Owens to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/education\/2024\/09\/03\/utah-book-bans-conservatives\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrate the Utah law<\/a> that banned 13 books from Public Schools. While Owens spouted MAGA conspiracy theories, another speaker Ivory invited called on the authors of the banned titles to \u2018repent.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s weird that a sitting legislator would celebrate a book ban by platforming conspiracy theorists. Ivory and Owens may claim that they support \u2018small government,\u2019 but when it comes to what books kids can read, <strong>they think that politicians, not parents, should have the final say.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican Party may say they&#8217;re the party of liberty, but their actions tell a different story. <strong>So long as they try to control what your children can and can\u2019t read, they cannot pretend to stand for your freedoms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 2024, Salt Lake City &#8211; UDP Executive Director Thom DeSirant released the following statement today: \u201cOn August 29, MAGA Extremist Ken Ivory invited election-denying Congressman Burgess Owens to celebrate the Utah law that banned 13 books from Public Schools. While Owens spouted MAGA conspiracy theories, another speaker Ivory invited called on the authors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tooeledemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}