Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Florida Republican Party, and his wife could find their hours counted due to a sex scandal
Nothing is missing from this scandal. A conservative Republican politician accused of rape in Florida, There are alleged recordings of threesomes circulating, lesbian relationships of an ultra-conservative involved in campaigns against the LGBT community and two million dollars on the table in exchange for the resignation that the all-powerful governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is also asking for.
The protagonists of this scary equation are Bridget and Christian Ziegler, a power couplehow the United States defines a merger with such power of influence in political spheres, which from being on the crest of a wave is fully immersed in the mission of safeguarding its battered reputation. He was elected in early 2023 to chair the Republican Party in Florida and is co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a conservative group in favor of book censorship and against discussing topics such as homosexuality and racial diversity in the classroom .
They moved like fish to water in an increasingly Republican state until Ziegler was impeached rape by a woman the couple had invited for a threesome. The idea was to carry it out on October 2, but the woman decided at the last moment to cancel, sending a text message in which she acknowledged that her main interest was her and not him. The Republican president does not seem to have accepted her refusal very well because, according to her accusation, the woman would have found him in her apartment, where he would have abused her.
Ziegler actively and passively denied it, assuring that the relationship was consensual. However, the Instagram messages accessed by the investigators in charge of the case show that the politician asked several times what he could do for his alleged victim. «You caused it. You can’t help me,» she replied. I insisted on seeing her and talking about her because They had been friends for more than 20 years, but the complainant refused, «terrified» after the rape.
Sarasota County School Board member Bridget Ziegler had to defend herself against accusations of hypocrisy by these three who indulge in women despite vehemently supporting the law Don’t say gay which has raised a lot of dust and which prevents teachers from talking about sexual orientation or gender in classes with children up to nine years old in Florida. Her group «Mothers for Freedom» believes that a kiss between two girls is an «obscene and traumatic» act. One of them even proposed separating homosexual students from the rest, including young people with autism and Down syndrome.
Sarasota school board members called for her resignation but she refused despite the vote of her colleagues, a firing that only Governor DeSantis could carry out. Her husband, for her part, finds himself in a similar situation, under pressure from members of his party and from DeSantis himself to abandon the presidency in the southern state. For now he is suspended from work and salary.
Some believe Ziegler is seeking a way out in exchange for a $2 million settlement, a strategy his fellow coaches say is unworkable. «The first thing I did was laugh when I heard it, and so did the person who told me what was being discussed or asked. There will never be a purchase,» said Michael Thompson, leader of the committee Lee County Republican Executive, to The Washington Post.
Despite praising Ziegler’s work at a Nov. 4 rally and posing for photographers along with it, Pres Donald Trump remained silent in recent weeks when DeSantis, his main political rival in the primaries, condemned Ziegler’s actions. His resignation and replacement could be a key issue in next year’s presidential election.
