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Resident defends hiring students to promote his work; parent says book made children uncomfortable
Summary
Public comment at the Port Orford-Langlois SD 2CJ board meeting featured resident John Huddle describing paying students to read his book and contact entertainers, and parent Britney Huggin saying the book contains sexual and violent material that made children uncomfortable. The board took no action but reminded speakers of public-comment rules.
Resident John Huddle used the district’s public-comment period to describe his efforts to market his books and to recruit local students as paid readers for an outreach project.
“My name is John Huddle,” he told the board. Huddle said he had paid ‘‘thousands’’ to author services and lawyers, and that he had reached out to students—sometimes through parents and sometimes directly—asking them to read his work and, if they liked it, to contact entertainers on social media. “I’d pay the kids 100…
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