“Moms” 4 Book Bans

Superintendent of Education candidate Ellen Weaver attended a Moms for Liberty event this weekend, based on photos from her official campaign site.

Image of Weaver at an event last weekend at “Freedom Farm,” featuring Moms for Liberty signage and hosted by a “parental autonomy” activist. Source: Weaver’s official campaign Facebook.

Moms for Liberty, as most readers will be aware, is a well-funded and politically-connected national activism group focused on an extreme version of what they call “parental rights,” but which mainly translates as efforts to ban books (they memorably tried to ban a book about Martin Luther King, Jr., in Tennessee. While often presenting themselves as “grassroots” activists (which might be the case for some local leaders and affiliates— it’s hard to tell), the national group is clearly well-funded, well-organized, and was founded by political operatives with connections to the Florida Republican party.

So, in other words, ideal allies for a candidate who has …