Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been getting a lot of national press attention since Senator McCain’s surprise pick was announced, and among the stories that have surfaced is one in which library censorship issues were raised. The story dates from 1996, around the time that Palin was elected mayor of
According to home town newpaper The Frontiersman, which had relatively complete, contemporaneous reporting on the issue, Palin asked Emmons about removing objectionable books on three different occasions, with Emmons resisting each time. But no books were banned, and Palin later told the paper that the questions were “rhetorical,” and that she had no particular books in mind.
Emmons stayed in her position for several years after the incidents, then left shortly before the beginning of Palin’s second term.