NILES, Mich. — The Communications Manager of the Cass County Government is helping to lead an activist charge to ensure inappropriate and pornographic material stays in Brandywine School libraries. Ambrosia Neldon, who has been the Marketing and Communications Manager for the government entity for the past year, has been vocal about keeping explicit material on school library shelves since February.
Earlier this year, the school board created the Explicit Material Book Review Committee. The committee’s purpose is simple: Inventory books that contain sexual content, create a checkout protocol in which students are allowed to check them out (including parental consent) and create a process to vet new material being admitted.
Since then, Neldon has appeared at nearly every meeting where she has attacked the elected board members and parent groups, calling the move “book banning.”
In February, Neldon gave her credentials as the Communications Manager for Cass County and as a former journalist before attacking the board and parents for creating the Book Review Committee.
“As a journalist and communications manager for a government office, I’ve myself covered and guided reporters covering hundreds of board meetings.” Neldon stated. “They (the board) voted for halting library inventory despite vocal opposition… the board was elected to serve… a pledge that was quickly contradicted in the first two meetings.”
At the board meeting in March, the taxpayer funded communications professional continued to attack the new conservative board members by falsely claiming they “created a toxic environment for our staff, our students and our community.”
At a board meeting in April, she once again claimed removing pornographic material from school libraries was “book banning” before attacking a County Commissioner for proposing an ordinance that would have held librarians and teachers criminally liable for giving pornography to children.
“His extreme politics were not representative of the majority of constituents.” Neldon stated, after giving a veiled threat that a state-wide intimidation campaign effectively pressured the politician into pulling his proposed ordinance.
In May, she continued the push to keep sexual content in school libraries by putting her own twist on the definition, claiming books with detailed erotic and sexual scenes aren’t actually pornographic.
REAL News Michiana discovered Neldon is also the Co-founder of Brandywine Alumni, Parent and Educators for Educational Freedom, also known as the Stronger Together Movement. Neldon and her group were featured in the Michigan teachers’ union magazine, The MEA Voice. The story was a focused hit piece against the new conservative board members. Teachers’ unions across the country have been campaigning and attacking conservatives and parental rights groups for the past several years.
Neldon has been joined by Brandywine English Teacher and Union President, Debra Carew in the push to keep pornographic material available to kids. Below is a list of the books that have been identified by the school board as being potentially inappropriate. All of them contain sexually explicit content.
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