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    Amid book ban fight, Newsom blasts school board president as 'ignorant' for calling Harvey Milk 'a pedophile'

    by Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times Jun 06, 2023 3 minutes
    Gavin Newsom, seen speaking in Sacramento in January, slammed the Temecula Valley school board for rejecting a new social studies curriculum, which mentions Harvey Milk.

    LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted a Temecula school board president who voted along with a majority of the panel to reject a curriculum because a textbook mentioned gay rights activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk.

    During a public hearing on the curriculum, Temecula Valley Unified School District board President Joseph Komrosky called Milk a “pedophile.” In a Twitter post, Newsom fired back, calling Komrosky “ignorant.”

    The feud has erupted amid a nationwide trend of book bans and attacks against schools for supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

    A majority of Temecula

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