I've run across evidence, for instance, that as mayor, she tried to force a librarian in her town to remove certain books from the library. Any confirmation of that?

No. They discussed it on NPR this morning--said she discussed the books she disapproved of with a librarian, but the books weren't removed. Good for that librarian!

That said, I am so under-whelmed by this woman and the role they have suggested she should fill. The entire state population wouldn't fill the county I live in in Texas. They expect Americans to buy into a leap from small town politics and a short run of sparse state political office to something as comprehensive as vice president with, based upon a BA in journalism and bragging rights as a hockey mom. She has been mayor of a postage stamp sized town and spent less time as governor than it generally takes to go through community college to get an associates degree. In the school of life outside the home she is woefully under-educated.

Alaska facts.

SRS