Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, more than a year ago, but that she had declined to have. Photo: Christian Ziegler, the head of Florida's Republican Party, is under criminal investigation. Bridget Ziegler has been a fixture within Florida conservative circles for years. Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler has been accused of assaulting a woman who had planned to meet Ziegler and his wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, for a three-way sexual. com or 505-238-0392. Christian, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) chair is under. 2 – one month after the alleged rape – Ziegler told. T. The video of the sex act is brief in duration and the victim can be heard telling Ziegler to climax in her mouth rather than on her new shirt, the sources said. The move comes on the. SARASOTA, Fla. The Sarasota County School Board cannot oust Bridget Ziegler from the panel but voted 4-1 to recommend that she step down in the fallout from the bombshell sex scandal. Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has been suspended by his party. Zander Moricz, who was the class president at Pine View School in Osprey and now attends Harvard, said Bridget Ziegler deserved to lose her job, but not because of her private sex life. December 22 2023 7:35 PM EST Sarasota police obtained a second sex video from embattled Republican Party of Florida Chair Christian Ziegler. Bridget Ziegler speaks at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, Saturday, July 1, 2023. Though Bridget Ziegler stepped back from Moms for Liberty in 2021 because of her school board role, she remained involved, speaking in sessions about school board campaigns at both of the Moms for. (WWSB/Gray News) - The Sarasota County School Board voted to ask school board member Bridget Ziegler to resign on Tuesday. Christian Ziegler is a former Sarasota County commissioner who was vice chair of the Florida GOP before becoming chair in February. Bridget Ziegler, on the other hand, is a rising star in the conservative movement, and her school board seat received an endorsement from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also a presidential. That’s the allegation being made about Bridget Ziegler — co-founder of far-right Moms for Liberty — by an unnamed woman accusing Florida Republican Chairman Christian Ziegler of rape and. Both the woman and Bridget Ziegler have told detectives that there was a previous sexual encounter between the three of them more than a year ago. 5-minute-long video of the sexual encounter," according to the search warrant. With Bridget Ziegler allegedly involved in such a lascivious relationship, I call for her immediate resignation from the board, as well as from the Disney oversight board. According to a police affidavit on October 2, Ziegler messaged the alleged victim, who had been involved in a consensual threesome with him and Bridget a year prior, and proposed another sexual. A Florida school board has formally called for prominent Republican Bridget Ziegler to resign from her seat after a sex scandal involving her husband. According to a police search warrant affidavit, Ziegler arrived alone at the apartment shortly after the woman backed out of a proposed tryst involving Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, a Sarasota school board member and cofounder of Moms for Liberty. SARASOTA — The Sarasota County School Board on Tuesday called on fellow board member Bridget Ziegler to resign, citing her role in a sex scandal with statewide implications and calling her. Bridget Ziegler could not be reached for comment. She has served on the board since 2014, when she was appointed by then-Gov. Jacob Ogles December 08 2023. She was first appointed to the Sarasota County School Board in 2014 by now-U. m. Bridget Ziegler, half of a Florida Republican power couple embroiled in a rape allegation and same-sex scandal, refused to resign from her seat on the Sarasota County School. Christian Ziegler, the head of Florida’s Republican Party and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under investigation for alleged sexual battery. Ziegler is the co-founder of the far-right organization Moms. Florida GOP Chair Accused of Sexually Assaulting Threesome Partner. UPDATED 5:00 AM ET Dec. Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler's admission to having a sexual relationship with the woman accusing her husband of rape has sparked backlash online Saturday, with many labeling the. Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler's admission to having a sexual relationship with the woman accusing her husband of rape has sparked backlash online Saturday,. 0:00. She and her husband, Christian, are embroiled in a sex scandal. Ron DeSantis. The scandal prompted political leaders from both sides of the aisle to demand Ziegler resign as GOP state chair, including Gov. That’s the allegation being made about Bridget Ziegler — co-founder of far-right Moms for Liberty and a Sarasota School Board member — by an unnamed woman accusing Christian Ziegler of rape and sexual battery. Moms for Liberty is condemning Republican Party of Florida Chair Christian Ziegler — the husband of one of the group’s co-founders, Bridget Ziegler — after Christian Ziegler was accused of rape. A woman accused Ziegler in October of raping her in a Sarasota apartment. Christian and Bridget Ziegler had been rising stars of the Florida Republicans, promoting conservative family values. A lesser person than Tom Edwards of the Sarasota County School Board would be gloating about the sex scandal threatening to engulf fellow member Bridget Ziegler and her GOP honcho husband, Christian. 30 2023, Published 7:15 p. Sarasota County School Board member Tom Edwards called for colleague Bridget Ziegler to resign from the board amid accusations that her husband sexually assaulted a woman who had been part. Multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban books that address gender and sexuality from school libraries. Republican firebrand and Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, best known for her raunchy three-way sex antics, is being shown the door by a Florida school board. m. Bridget Ziegler co-founded the group Moms for Liberty, which has pushed anti-LGBTQ+ agendas and worked to remove books from school classrooms that have themes of racial justice and acceptance of. The Zieglers made another plan to have sex on October 2, according to the affidavit, but the woman canceled the arrangement after she learned that Bridget Ziegler could not make it, The Washington. Co-founder Bridget Ziegler’s. December 08 2023 6:10 PM EST. Christian Ziegler denies rape allegations. m. Ziegler and the woman who he’d known for 20 years agreed to have a sexual encounter including his wife on Oct. A Sarasota County school board is calling for the resignation of board member and co-founder of conservative group "Moms for Liberty," Bridget Ziegler. 2, but Bridget Ziegler couldn't attend, according to the. A sex video involving Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman has been recovered by police as part of the ongoing criminal investigation of a rape allegation made against Bridget’s husband, Christian Ziegler, sources close to the investigation have told the Florida Trident. Ziegler is the co-founder of the far-right. Then came revelations of a threesome with a woman, who alleges she was later. 0:00. Calls mount for Bridget Ziegler to resign from Sarasota School Board amid a sex scandal. Christian Ziegler has admitted they had sex in her apartment but claims it was consensual. The defiant chair of the Florida Republican Party has denied allegations of rape made against him by a woman he and his wife were having a consensual affair with, as disturbing new details have emerged about the alleged attack. He leads the statewide Republican Party and Bridget Ziegler is a well-known school choice advocate who helped start Moms. 57°. Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler is currently under criminal investigation after being accused of raping a woman who claimed to have been. Husband and wife Christian and Bridget Ziegler have been rising stars in Florida's Republican party. Hot Sauce Recall as Life-Threatening Warning Issued. Or at least when. Florida sex scandal tarnishes GOP power couple and party’s credibility. Bridget Ziegler has admitted to having threesomes with the woman and has been roundly criticized since her organization, Moms for Liberty, opposes LGBTQ+ content in public schools and equal rights. Ziegler was interviewed by detectives on Nov. Christian Ziegler, chair of Florida's Republican Party, has been accused of raping a woman he and his wife had previously had consenual sex with. (WWSB/Gray News) - The Sarasota County School Board voted to ask school board member Bridget Ziegler to resign on Tuesday. Zander Moricz. This one shows an encounter between his wife Bridget Ziegler with another woman. . A Florida school board is demanding the resignation of one of its members, whose husband, the. DeSantis even appointed her to the tourism board he constructed to harass Disney for daring to speak out against his. Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department alleging the longtime Republican official had raped her, according to a heavily redacted police. Christian Ziegler is the chairman of the Florida Republican party. Ziegler if she doesn't resign” Reporter Katie LaGrone asked board. SARASOTA, Fla. Her husband was elected to serve as Sarasota County's State Committeeman in 2012 and re-elected. At least that's the hope for the Florida Republican Party. Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler filmed a sex tape of herself and another woman, an activity revealed in the ongoing investigation into her husband, Chris Ziegler, the Florida GOP. He's head of the state GOP and she co-founded Moms for Liberty. Bridget Ziegler is an elected member of. Ziegler and the woman who he’d known for 20 years agreed to have a sexual encounter including his wife on Oct. In the affidavit, a written declaration made under oath, a law enforcement officer said that the woman and Mr. The Sarasota County School Board is expected to take up a vote Tuesday on asking embattled board member Bridget Ziegler, seen here at a March 2023 meeting, to step down. Seeking to unseat Ziegler is a candidate who would set her own precedent, as the first Black Sarasota School Board member, Dawnyelle Singleton. The Sarasota School Board will vote Tuesday to ask member Bridget. . They are simply a mirror reflecting an enabling GOP that long ago lost its way. An. 1:46. All of Ziegler's colleagues on. According to allegations in a Sarasota Police Department search warrant affidavit, Ziegler and his wife, conservative activist Bridget Ziegler, planned to have a sexual encounter with a woman on. ”Bridget Ziegler said she will keep her position amid a police investigation into her husband and a sex scandal. ” Bridget Ziegler is a co-founder of the far-right group Moms for Liberty, which has led book-banning campaigns across the country. On Oct. The school board voted last month to ask her to resign. Florida GOP Chair Accused of Sexually Assaulting Threesome Partner. policies hypocritical. In search warrant affidavits, police have said the woman. Christian Ziegler told police the sex was consensual, according to the affidavit, and showed them the video, which is 2½ minutes long. Photo Illustration by Luis G. I do not know Mrs. The co-founder of Moms for Liberty (M4L) has refused to step down from her local school board despite all other board members voting in favour of her resignation. m. Q. Ziegler has been accused of suppressing the America First/MAGA. Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, more than a year ago, but that she had declined to have sex with Mr. . The dancer later landed roles in movies and even became Sia’s muse and often performed in her music. 2 in his attorney Derek Byrd's office. On Tuesday evening, I watched as the Sarasota School Board voted four to one in favor of the resolution to recommend that Bridget Ziegler resign in the wake of a sex scandal that has rocked the. Shaken by sex scandal, Florida GOP turns to repairing party's image, jockeying for top spot. Florida police have obtained a video showing Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler having sex with a woman. Sarasota police obtained a second sex video from embattled Republican Party of Florida Chair Christian Ziegler. Christian Ziegler told detectives that the Oct. Bridget Ziegler co-founded Moms for Liberty with the goal of transforming staid school board meetings into high-octane right-wing. Ziegler admitted to having sex with the alleged victim, but said the sex was consensual and that he recorded the encounter. The Sarasota County School board passed a resolution Dec. This tape solely stars Bridget with another woman (who is unidentified). I get why many of you think Bridget Ziegler – now snared up in a threesome-sex scandal that also has her husband, former Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, under criminal. The. By John Riley on December 7, 2023 @JRileyMW 207The scandal involving “Don’t Say Gay” proponent Bridget Ziegler, who has been accused of being involved in a years-long three-way sexual relationship with a woman accusing her husband of. All of Ziegler's colleagues on the. The 40-year-old chairman and his wife Bridget Ziegler—a co-founder of Moms for Liberty—have been under fire since a Florida journalism watchdog reported that cops were investigating him for. On Tuesday, the Sarasota School Board is. The is the second sex tape of the Zieglers. Florida sex scandal tarnishes GOP power couple and party’s credibility. The school board voted last month to ask her to resign. As a scandal involving Bridget Ziegler, cofounder of the conservative advocacy group Moms for Liberty, continues to attract national attention, a speech by a Harvard University. the victim and her husband had consensual sex together over a year before the alleged crime occurred. Recently released records reveal that Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Moms for Liberty and a member of the Sarasota School Board, admitted to detectives she was involved. Ziegler, who had many of his powers stripped away and his $12,000 per-year salary reduced to $1 last month, has been accused of raping a woman with whom he and his wife Bridget, a Sarasota County. Bridget Ziegler is a member of the Sarasota County School Board. December 09 2023 10:01 AM EST. The victim said Christian showed up alone, over the women’s objection. A sex tape between Sarasota School Board member and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, Bridget Ziegler, and another woman has been recovered by the police. 2 in his attorney Derek Byrd's office. Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group and a member of the Sarasota County School Board, is at the center of a controversy involving her husband, Christian Ziegler, the Chair of the Florida Republican Party, that has exposed the pair’s overwhelming hypocrisy. The first-time candidate for public office is backed. The co-founder of the conservative extremist group Moms for Liberty has refused to resign from her position on a Florida school board, in spite of an active rape investigation into her husband. m. ET. The Zieglers made another plan to have sex on October 2, according to the affidavit, but the woman canceled the arrangement after she learned that Bridget Ziegler could not make it, The Washington. Police are investigating Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler,. The resolution is non-binding, and the board cannot force her to resign. 2 and raping her after she backed out of plans to have sex with Ziegler and his wife, Bridget, when she learned Bridget. Consequently, the co-founder of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group, Moms for Liberty, resigned from her most recent. She has served on the board since 2014, when she was appointed by then-Gov. Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler's admission to having a sexual relationship with the woman accusing her husband of rape has sparked backlash online Saturday, with many labeling the. Hypocrisy will do it every time. 2, but the woman canceled when she learned Bridget was unable to make it, police. If Bridget stays they keep their majority no matter what. Bridget Ziegler, who is not named in the complaint against her husband, is a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and has worked closely with Florida Gov. Neither. 1: a colleague's resolution calling for her resignation. Ziegler but I am an avid reader. Bridget Ziegler, a Sarasota School Board member and co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty, confirmed to police she and her husband engaged in a threesome with the woman more than a year. 2, Ziegler claimed the encounter was consensual and showed detectives a two-and-a-half minute video of the sex act he’d taken on. It’s no shock, then, that Edwards became the first member of the School Board to call for Bridget Ziegler’s resignation amid her husband’s high-profile sex scandal. A planned three-way sexual encounter between Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, his wife and Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, and a woman they had sex with in the past ended in. SARASOTA, Fla. Ziegler and his wife, Sarasota County School Board member and Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler, have emerged as one of the most prominent political couples in the state in recent years. 1:21 A Florida school board has formally called for prominent Republican Bridget Ziegler to resign from her seat after a sex scandal involving her husband. Megan Buck wrote in the affidavit. In a police report, a. 13, 2023. Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of the rightwing Moms for Liberty group, knows that better than most. Christian Ziegler told investigators that he had consensual sex with the woman on. Tuesday. "Ziegler showed detectives the 2. The Sarasota County School Board cannot directly remove Bridget Ziegler from the panel but voted 4-1 Tuesday for a. Sen. No criminal or civil charges have been filed against her. Sen. The resolution is non-binding, and the board cannot force her to resign. Bridget Ziegler, half of a Florida Republican power couple embroiled in a rape allegation and same-sex scandal, refused to resign from her seat on the Sarasota County School Board on Tuesday night. which would mean she was unable to consent to [email protected] get why many of you think Bridget Ziegler – now snared up in a threesome-sex scandal that also has her husband, former Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler, under criminal. Ahead of the board's 6 p. Bridget Ziegler is a Sarasota School Board member and a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a conservative organization that has gained national attention while advocating for more parental control. Matt Rourke. Why Bridget Ziegler faces call to resign from the Sarasota County School Board 05:19. Embattled rapist Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler is almost certain to be removed from office today and end the months-long saga. More than a month after a sex scandal exposed the rank hypocrisy of Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler and his wife Bridget, Ziegler has been ousted from his position. Reading Time: 2 minutes A sex video involving Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman has been recovered by police as part of the ongoing criminal investigation of a rape allegation made against Bridget’s husband, Christian Ziegler, Florida Trident reported. Bridget Ziegler's apparent admission of having a three-way sexual. 12 officially calling on Bridget. The Sarasota County School Board voted 4-1 for a resolution requesting that Bridget Ziegler step down. The five-member Sarasota School Board is dominated by four conservatives. Hypocrisy will do it every time. The woman canceled with Christian Ziegler after she was told that Bridget was. Right Now. The woman accusing Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler of sexual assault told police she had planned to have sex with him and his wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, but called. The vote was 4. “Pretty, poised, and poisonous, she was a blonde tornado of. “The victim did not give Ziegler consent to take this video of them having sex. "Our community has been rocked by. "The victim and Christian Ziegler agreed to have. The Sarasota cops who are investigating a rape accusation against Christian Ziegler unearthed a second sex tape. 2, but the woman canceled when she learned Bridget was unable to make it, police. Christian showed detectives a two-and-a-half-minute video of the encounter to support his claim of consensual sex. It’s unclear if the woman is the same woman who accused Ziegler’s husband of. A chapter of the virulently anti-LGBTQ Moms for Liberty in far-off Pennsylvania is disbanding —with some members creating a different group under a different name—in response to the bombshell out of. 51 in 2014 - when she first.