Ziegler, 40, maintains that the sex — originally proposed to include his wife, Bridget Ziegler, according to court documents — was consensual. Florida school board recommends ouster of Moms for Liberty co-founder over Republican sex scandal. Bridget Ziegler is an elected member of the Sarasota School Board and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a national conservative activist group that has successfully gotten members elected to school. christian ziegler florida gop chair bridget ziegler moms for liberty founder. Bridget Ziegler is co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty. G. Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler is currently under criminal investigation after being accused of raping a woman who claimed to have been. 30 2023, Published 7:15 p. December 13, 2023 · 4 min read 12 Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler listens to public comments Tuesday evening, Dec. In the latest findings from the Florida Center for Government Accountability another sex tape turned up in the beleaguered saga of former Republican power couple Bridget and Christian Ziegler. Ziegler and his wife — Sarasota School Board Member Bridget Ziegler, who helped found Moms of Liberty — had made plans to have sex with the woman two days before, according to the affidavit. Moms for Liberty is an American conservative political organization that advocates against school curricula that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination. A Florida school board has formally called for prominent Republican Bridget Ziegler to resign from her seat after a sex scandal involving her husband. Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler listens to public comments Tuesday evening, Dec. Jacob Ogles. Bridget Ziegler has been a fixture within Florida conservative circles for years. Rick Scott, and has previously served as chair. For an optimal experience visit our site on. (WWSB/Gray News) - The Sarasota County School Board voted to ask school board member Bridget Ziegler to resign on Tuesday. Bridget Ziegler Photograph: Zack Wittman/Bloomberg/Getty Images. On Oct. The sexual battery investigation of Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler began with a 911 call from a friend of the alleged victim who was worried about her well-being, according to a recording of the call obtained by the Florida Trident. 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 power couple — Christian chairs the Florida GOP and Bridget is. Matt Rourke. 2, but the woman backed out after Bridget Ziegler “couldn't make it. Bridget Ziegler speaks at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, Saturday, July 1, 2023. Ziegler admits to a sexual encounter but said it was consensual. 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. Rick Scott, and has previously been its chair. Sarasota County School Board member Tom Edwards, left, hands out a proposal for the board to write a letter to Gov. Sarasota school board votes to seek resignation from Bridget Ziegler amid ongoing sex scandal “What does it say about Mrs. Christian Ziegler was removed as chairman of the Florida Republican Party on January 8, 2024 by the party's. According to the Florida Trident, the video. 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. All of Ziegler's colleagues on the Sarasota. ET. The school board voted last month to ask her to resign. It is not known if the woman in the video is. Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler has been called to resign from a Florida school board after she and her Republican husband have become embroiled in a sex scandal. A report from Florida Trident, and verified by other journalists, announced the Florida Chair of the Republican Party, Christian Ziegler, has been accused with battery of a menage-a-trois lover, a situation that included his wife, Bridgett Ziegler, who co-founded Moms For Liberty. Hypocrisy on steroids, if true. According to text messages cited in the affidavit, the woman and the Zieglers had planned to again have group sex on Oct. A Florida school board has formally called for prominent Republican Bridget Ziegler to resign from her seat after a sex scandal involving her husband. Christian Ziegler has even profited from Moms for Liberty, a controversial parent advocacy group co-founded by his wife Bridget, whose net worth climbed from $16,795. "Ziegler showed detectives the 2. 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. The is the second sex tape of the Zieglers. Sarasota police obtained a second sex video from embattled Republican Party of Florida Chair Christian Ziegler. A three-way sexual encounter was planned between the alleged victim, Christian Ziegler and his wife Bridget Ziegler, according to the affidavit. Christian Ziegler — the Florida GOP Chair currently under investigation over rape allegations by a woman he and his wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder and Sarasota School Board member Bridget. The attention surrounding the personal sex life of Sarasota County school board member Bridget Ziegler is now the basis of mounting pressure for her to quit her public life with the board. In a police report, a. (Zack Wittman/Bloomberg )Bridget Ziegler (left) with Casey DeSantis at the launch of Mamas for DeSantis. Calls mount for Bridget Ziegler to resign from Sarasota School Board amid a sex scandal. , on Tuesday. Christian Ziegler, 40, told members of the state GOP that he and wife. Moms for Liberty (M4L) is reeling. Christian and Bridget Ziegler had been rising stars of the Florida Republicans, promoting conservative family values. Ziegler has said the sexual encounter was consensual. "Ziegler showed detectives the 2. the victim and her husband had consensual sex together over a year before the alleged crime occurred. The Republican Party of Florida will hold a special meeting Monday, Jan. Florida school board passes resolution demanding Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler resign after police launched rape investigation against her husband and their ménage a trois with. 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. The is the second sex tape of the Zieglers. The Sarasota School Board will vote Tuesday to ask. Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler is being investigated by police after a woman — who once had sex with him and his wife — said Ziegler raped her, according to a search warrant affidavit. 2 after she backed out of plans to have sex with Ziegler and his. He leads the statewide Republican Party and Bridget Ziegler is a well-known school choice advocate who helped start Moms. According to a story first reported by the Florida Center for Government Accountability, Florida’s rising Republican rock stars enjoy threesomes, which means it is possible Bridget Ziegler, who. 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. Tampa, FL ». Rick Scott, and has previously been its chair. At the time, Assistant Superintendent Jeff Maultsby was accused of. Ziegler was interviewed by detectives on Nov. Detectives say he recorded the Oct. Bridget Ziegler, a Sarasota County School Board member and co-founder of the Moms for Liberty parental advocacy group, has resigned from her position at a conservative nonprofit. 2, but the woman canceled when she learned Bridget was unable to make it, police. Bridget Ziegler has been a fixture within Florida conservative circles for years. m. December 2, 2023 · 4 min read. DeSantis, who in February appointed Bridget Ziegler to the state-created board overseeing development at Walt Disney World, has called for Christian Ziegler’s resignation in light of the police investigation, as have numerous other Florida Republicans, including U. Ziegler is the co-founder of the far-right organization Moms. 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. He's head of the state GOP and she co-founded Moms for Liberty. “and a fairly diffuse set of goals — either focused on a hot-topic issue that will fade quickly, like CRT [critical race theory] — or on goals that are. The woman, however, told police she. The Sarasota County School Board formally called on Bridget Ziegler to resign on Tuesday as she grapples with. According to a police affidavit, a Sarasota woman Ziegler has known for 20 years said she was sexually assaulted on Oct. According to search warrant affidavits, Christian and Bridget Ziegler had made plans to have sex with the woman. Bridget Ziegler, who is the cofounder of Moms for Liberty and a member of the Sarasota School Board, has recently been under increased scrutiny following rape. Florida sex scandal tarnishes GOP power couple and party’s credibility. The Florida Trident reports:. 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. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Facebook/Handout. December 16, 2023 at 7:00 a. “The impact of the Zeigler scandal has been enormous on the Moms for Liberty structure,” Liz Mikitarian, the founder of the. By Ed Scarce — January 8, 2024. Christian Ziegler told police the sex was consensual, according to the affidavit, and showed them the video, which is 2½ minutes long. m. Florida police have obtained a video showing Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler having sex with a woman. 2, 2023 at her apartment. | UPDATED: December 17, 2023 at 3:50 p. , reveals the caller was concerned about the mental. When questioned, Bridget Ziegler admitted to the sexual relationship involving her husband and another woman. 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. 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. Bridget Ziegler. Jacob Ogles December 08 2023. 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. Bridget Ziegler, 41, a thrice-elected Sarasota County school board. Bridget Ziegler is also an elected member of the Sarasota County school board and was appointed by DeSantis to the board that now oversees Walt Disney World’s land development. . Hypocrisy on steroids, if true. Her private sex life is none of our business. Police have reportedly obtained a second sex video involving Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman. Or at least when. Photo: Christian Ziegler, the head of Florida's Republican Party, is under criminal investigation. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). Police say they are actively investigating. Hypocrisy will do it every time. Her husband, Christian Ziegler, is facing accusations of rape. State Republicans voted on Monday (8 January) to oust the him after he was accused of raping a woman with whom he and his wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, had a prior consensual relationship. 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. Both are enmeshed in a sex scandal. 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. Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler recorded a graphic video of himself engaged in a sex act with the woman accusing him of rape, according to a report and a police. Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, have admitted to police that they previously had a consensual sexual relationship with Christian Ziegler’s accuser. Primarily because in November, Christian was accused of raping a woman a month prior. Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler is expected to face a political reckoning on Tuesday when her fellow board members consider calling for her resignation amid an ongoing sex. Ziegler and his wife, Sarasota County School Board member. Bridget Ziegler could not be reached for comment. Y'all this is so good. A workshop by the board is scheduled for earlier in the day, beginning at 1 p. The school board voted last month to ask her to resign. Moms for Liberty, which says it is. Bridget Ziegler, 41, was appointed to the Sarasota County School Board in 2014 and has won reelection three times, most recently in 2022 with the backing of DeSantis. 6, 2023 - Schoolboard chairwoman calls on Bridget Ziegler to resign. 5-minute-long video of the sexual encounter," according to the search warrant. The incident under investigation by Sarasota police occurred when Christian Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman’s house, without Bridget Ziegler present, the sources conveyed. According to the affidavit, once the woman learned at 2:12 p. 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. Bridget Ziegler speaks at the Moms for Liberty meeting in Philadelphia, July 1, 2023. Bridget Ziegler, a founder of the advocacy group Moms for Liberty, during a meeting of the Sarasota County School Board in Sarasota, Fla. Ziegler, his wife and the woman all acknowledged. The woman told the police that she had had a consensual sexual encounter with Mr. Bridget Ziegler played a strong hand in writing Florida's "don't say gay" law. 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. 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 accusations of sexual assault against Christian, according to a police affidavit. The move comes on the. In a statement sent Tuesday, Moms for Liberty's co-founders distanced themselves from Bridget Ziegler, another of the organization's co-founders and current Sarasota County School. but critics and many parents in Sarasota say. 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 it off when Bridget couldn’t make it, according to a newly released search warrant affidavit. Ziegler, an original co-founder of Moms for Liberty, appeared defiant at the dais, asking the school board. Bridget Ziegler had joined the Sarasota County School Board in 2014 and occasionally waded into polarizing issues in the years leading up to the pandemic, including a hot button debate about. 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. m. So the holier-than-thou, book-banning Moms for Liberty co-founder who sits on the Sarasota County School Board engages in group sex. Sen. SARASOTA, Fla. 2, but Bridget Ziegler couldn't attend, according to the. At least that's the hope for the Florida Republican Party. Her hubby Christian Ziegler is chairman of the Florida Republican Party. December 13, 2023 · 4 min read 12 Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler listens to public comments Tuesday evening, Dec. Bridget Ziegler, the co-founder of the conservative parental rights group Moms For Liberty, and her husband have close ties with the leaders of the state’s Republican Party — Gov. The admission angered many due to Ziegler’s vendetta. Bridget Ziegler is co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group. Read part one here. 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. 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. The two members who won election on the same slate as Ziegler, Tim Enos and Robyn Marinelli, have not commented. EST. I learned. Christian Ziegler, pictured in 2018, led a media training session at the Moms for Liberty conference this week. In the affidavit, a written declaration made under oath, a law enforcement officer said that the woman and Mr. Nonetheless, Bridget Ziegler’s alleged involvement in a same-sex sexual relationship has been condemned as hypocritical given how much she has advocated for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts like Florida’s. The Florida Center for Government Accountability report clarified it is not known if the. Ziegler if she doesn't resign” Reporter Katie LaGrone asked board. Another three-way was planned on Oct. The dancer later landed roles in movies and even became Sia’s muse and often performed in her music. The woman told the police that she had had a consensual sexual encounter with Mr. Ziegler's. Ziegler admitted to having sex with the woman who accused him of rape, but he and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, claimed they had a consensual relationship. Ahead of the board's 6 p. 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. Bridget Ziegler is co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group. Sen. 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. Bridget Ziegler co-founded Moms for Liberty with the goal of transforming staid school board meetings into high-octane right-wing. Ron DeSantis. Police are investigating Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, over accusations that he. 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. m. Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler recorded a graphic video of himself engaged in a sex act with the woman accusing him of rape, according to a report and a police affidavit. WGCU. The potential for Christian Ziegler to face a video voyeurism charge opens new legal questions around the case. Sen.