The Sarasota County School Board will vote Tuesday to ask Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler to resign.
The move comes after the Florida Center for Government Accountability, revealed last month that Ziegler’s husband, Florida GOP chair Christian Ziegler, has been under investigation for rape since October. Bridget Ziegler told police that she, her husband and the woman accusing him of rape have had consensual threesomes in the past.
According to the Florida Observer, a resolution to request the resignation of Ziegler from the board is on the agenda for the school board meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday.Â
The board’s chairperson Karen Rose has already called for Ziegler to resign.
“Our community has been rocked by the disturbing revelations surrounding my fellow School Board member Bridget Ziegler and the criminal allegations against her husband, Christian Ziegler,” Rose said in a statement last week.
“Given the intense media scrutiny locally and nationally, her continued presence on the board would cause irreparably harmful distractions to our critical mission,” Rose added.
Another board member, openly gay Democrat Tom Edwards has also called on Ziegler to resign.
“As a public figure who was hypocritical in such a salacious way, that is the distraction that has to go away,” Edwards said.
“I want it to be very clear. I am not judging what people do in the privacy of their own homes. But the distraction she brings to the school board, prior to this and now this, is not sustainable. It has to go away,” he added.
Ziegler was endorsed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis when she was elected to a four-year term on the school board in November 2022.
