WOLFEBORO — Bobbi Boudman, a Wolfeboro Democrat who tried to unseat state Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro) last fall, has filed petitioned warrant articles that would prohibit the town and Governor Wentworth Regional School District from banning books in reaction to a bill put forward in the state Legislature by Cordelli.
Cordelli says he’s not trying to ban books but simply protect children from obscene content with House Bill 514, which is titled “Relative to the dissemination of obscene material by schools and institutions of higher learning.”
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