Hearing for Georgia library bill before session adjourns [Video]

Republicans lawmakers said they are not defunding libraries – but they do want to pull state funding if they do business with the American Library Association.

Georgia public libraries get some state funding – about $39 million a year, according to lawmakers. Libraries provide reading material that many conservatives find troubling – relating to gender identity and race relations among other topics. And the American Library Association has been part of the effort to provide such material

“This was a great organization,” said state Sen. Larry Walker III (R-Perry) to the House Higher Education committee.

Republicans lawmakers said they are not defunding libraries – but they do want to pull state funding if they do business with the American Library Association.

“They’re trying to push down a political agenda on our local libraries and I’m just tired of it,” Walker told the committee Monday.

Walker’s bill has gotten considerable blowback …