Protect Huntington Beach delivers signatures against children’s book review board to City Hall

Concerned Huntington Beach residents delivered more than 19,300 signatures against a controversial parent/guardian children’s book review board to City Hall on Monday. “This is democracy in action,” Ryder said after several people, including minority Huntington Beach City Council members Dan Kalmick, Natalie Moser and Rhonda Bolton and state Sen. Dave Min, helped with carrying the boxes to the cars. The group needed to collect 13,247 verified signatures — 10% of registered Huntington Beach voters — in order to trigger a special election early next year and let the voters decide on the fate of the yet-to-be-formed children’s book review board, which would feature up to 21 members appointed by the council. Volunteers including Huntington Beach City Council members Dan Kalmick, Natalie Moser and Rhonda Bolton help carry boxes of signed, verified petitions, to be delivered to City Hall.