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Paula Jean's avatar

I can’t thank you enough for voicing the opinions of the GOOD people of HB, in particular ProtectHB, and the smart-ass imagery of yours to boot.

Can I say you’re friggin’ awesome? There, I did.

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Sherry Muhlstein's avatar

Ditto sister 👏

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Jeff H's avatar

Your blog is the best thing going Jeff. Keep speaking out against these Nazi bastards!

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S S's avatar

Thank you for doing the lord's work! I sent this email to Chad the day after the signs were put up - LOL

Mr. Williams,

Gosh, I can only imagine the sheer volume of emails you have received this morning regarding your signs at every corner. Instead of spewing hate and anger at you, I would like to take a moment to thank you. Thank you for poking every mama bear in the city. Have you ever experienced a cross mother? Oh boy, it isn't pretty. I would pray for you but I'm agnostic so it seems a bit hypocritical of me to do so. But what I will do is tell every single HB resident I know to vote yes on A & B while also telling my other mom friends to stay away from HB lest they want their children to be exposed to a word little Timmy isn't familiar with yet. Can you imagine having to have that conversation on the way to the beach? Nah, I'll tell them to go to Newport instead. No signs over there!

There is nothing quite like angering every single mother because you decided to litter street corners with a word that most of us have purposefully shielded our children from (in BIG BOLD LETTERS no less). I am extremely grateful your little publicity stunt has backfired spectacularly. A smart politician would remove the signs immediately but the words "smart" and "politician" are oxymorons so I'm not holding out hope.

So once again, thanks for putting up all of those signs that will end up in the landfill. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Regards,

A poked mama bear

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Regina Blankenhorn's avatar

Thank you for making other cities aware of what was going on here in HB. Other cities throughout the country were watching us. This is effort by the right is nationwide, and we must keep vigilant. You do great job covering the school boards because that is where they like to infiltrate first. Preserving our freedom to read and for a free and accessible library prevailed! Here in HB, it was all grassroots and we rallied! I am beyond happy this morning!❤️📚🇺🇲

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Chris Jeffries's avatar

Great post! You should have left all the typos in Chad’s post though to show what an idiot and how uneducated he really is.

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Nina Merchant-Kuncewicki's avatar

The "don't tread on me crowd" has fallen conspicuously silent these days. It is interesting that they feel that books and day laborers are more of a threat to their liberty than a tyrannical president federalizing the California National Guard and calling up active duty military to be stationed in an American city. It shows you how far they are willing to go to make sure the federal government can kidnap immigrants and ban book unimpeded and how little they know about actual authoritarianism. I am fairly sure Reagan is rolling in his grave right now.

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Lord Humungus's avatar

Reagan used the National Guard on UC Berkeley. In fact one of my friends' mom got tear gassed on campus when she was pregnant with him. However, If Biden had kept the border control the same as Trump we wouldn't be suffering under this fascist regime.

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Nina Merchant-Kuncewicki's avatar

True, but he was governor of California at the time he did that. It was wrong, but it was not federalizing the California guard. There are pictures of it all over the Free Speech Movement Cafe at cal (I am also a Berkeley grad).

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Lord Humungus's avatar

I am a Cal alum and so is the son of the mom who got tear gassed.

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JL Mayes's avatar

Keep slingin', brother.

Find out what would have happened if Mike Seaver had gone into that bathroom, tonight on a very special Letterkenny...

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Lord Humungus's avatar

The religious right wing cranks are the absolute worst. Time for HB to stop the stupid air show grift next. Indeed, the city council is deeply involved in that scam too.

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