Gov. Rounds bullies state library to remove link to Teenwire

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/26/1414225

Dominick Washington, the Media Relations manager for Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, South Dakota discusses how Gov. Mike Rounds urged the State Library board to remove a link to Planned Parenthood's Teenwire site from its library website.

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DOMINICK WASHINGTON: Teenwire.com is Planned Parenthood’s teen-oriented sexual health information web site and three weeks ago, governor mike rounds, the governor of South Dakota, essentially ordered the South Dakota State Library Board to remove a link that it provided on its State Library web site. The normal procedure for whether or not a link is going to be made available on a web site is that the library board votes to approve it or disapprove it. And the library board in the past has voted unanimously to put and keep Planned Parenthood’s teenwire.com on its web site. But in May of 2004, Bishop Robert Carlson of Sioux Falls diocese wrote a letter urging him to remove the Teenwire.com site from the state library board web site. The governor is acting on that request, went to the state library board. The library board voted against him. Later the afternoon of the same, the day of the same vote, he sent an aide to the Library Board and the aide then instructed the Library Board that whether or not they could either, A: continue to vote against it, or B: the governor would remove it himself. So the governor--so the Library Board, excuse me, had a second vote and this time voted to remove the website rather than engage in a political fight with the governor. Reaction across the state was unified and outraged. People could not believe that the governor would use the weight and the power of his office to essentially remove a book from the shelves of the library which is essentially what he did by ordering the link be removed from the web site.
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what does Bishop Carlson have on Gov. Rounds?

why do teenage girls have to suffer for it?