Christian Ziegler is suffering a huge embarrassment. He is chairman of the Florida GOP and his wife Bridget is co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a Sarasota school board member, and one of DeSantis’s appointees to the board controlling Disney World.
The police released the search warrant for Christian’s cellphone and more details emerged that suggest that these paragons of morality engaged in some scandalous personal behavior.
Moms for Liberty has led a moral crusade to remove books about sex and race from classrooms and school libraries.
A search warrant affidavit released Friday sheds more light on the sexual battery accusations Christian Ziegler is facing amid growing bipartisan calls that he should quit his job as Florida’s Republican Party chair.
The allegations are being brought by a woman who says she had a previous consensual sexual encounter that included Ziegler and his wife, Bridget, also a player in Florida politics, according to the affidavit.
The document obtained through a public records request corroborates details from anonymous sources that were first reported Thursday by the Florida Center for Government Accountability.
Ziegler has not been charged with a crime, and his attorney, Derek Byrd, says he will be cleared of wrongdoing.
Sarasota Police outlined the accusations when applying for a search warrant in the 12th Judicial Circuit for Ziegler’s cellphone, Google email and Google Drive.
Ziegler and the woman who he’d known for 20 years agreed to have a sexual encounter including his wife on Oct. 2, but the woman canceled when she learned Bridget was unable to make it, police said in the affidavit.
The woman told detectives she opened her door to walk her dog and Ziegler entered her apartment and sexually assaulted her, the affidavit states.
“The victim advised Christian did not wear a condom, and he stated ‘I’m leaving the same way I came in,’” the affidavit states.
Ziegler was on surveillance footage visiting the apartment, police said in the affidavit.
Ziegler told detectives in an interview with his attorney present he had consensual sex with the woman and took video of it, initially deleting it but then uploading it to his Google Drive since the allegation, according to the affidavit. Police said in the affidavit that they have not located the footage.
Bridget Ziegler told detectives she was involved in a sexual encounter with her husband and the woman once over a year ago, the affidavit states.
What qualifies these people to be lecturing others about sexual propriety?
Should Moms for Liberty be renamed?
Moms Take Liberties?
Moms at Liberty?
Liberty for Moms?

The whole sordid affair highlights the hypocrisy of so many in the GOP. These folks want to play the role of moral arbiter while engaged in questionable behavior that is so much worse than watching a drag show. Karma? The party of family values, indeed!
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Gay sex, too!
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Oh my, Diane, this is quite something!
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Those who protest most loudly….
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I am reminded of the guy who ran the nationwide network of camps to reeducate and convert gay and lesbian teens and make them Jesus-y. He was caught coming back from his trip to Europe with his paid gay male escort from a site called something like rent a boy dot com.
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The best cover for deviance is to cry out against deviant people. Beware public figures who pontificate about morality.
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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones
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“When you point your finger ’cause your plan fell through
You got three more fingers, pointin’ back at you”
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That Telecaster fills in nicely for the original ’61 Strat.
I taught myself the solo years ago, but I never played it anywhere near as sweetly as these guys. Sounds very different on a Gibson 335S.
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Everything depends upon the amp and effects pedals or emulators used. You can get almost any sound from almost any particular guitar. But I know what you mean. I have a Gibson L5 Custom f-hole and an extraordinarily sweet Gibson Invader for the straight-up rock n roll like this.
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And Mark Knofler. Wow. What a talented human! A guy who can actually play, unlike, say, Eric Clapton.
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One thing I picked up from these guys is how extremely light their touch is–both of them. I knew that this should be the case, but it was good to get this reminder.
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Grifters, all of them. I don’t think they believe half of the BS they preach at the rest of us. Nor do I believe the loudest GOP politicians believe it, either.
Case in point. Here is a fascinating interview with Tim Alberta, a writer for The Atlantic who was the son of an Evangelical preacher, and who just wrote a book exploring why so many Evangelicals are Trump supporters. In his book he recounts a story about the early days of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority. Falwell noticed that he’d discovered a formula for raising money & convincing people to vote republican. He ginned up fear over the culture wars and that the end was near if the evil liberals weren’t stopped.
Alberta interviewed several people close to Falwell as well as read some of his correspondence. They knew they were being dishonest but they didn’t particularly care, because they saw this as a means to an end.
Once you justify things like this, then anything’s fair game. It’s what happens when you sell your soul to the devil.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215806967/how-support-for-trump-is-causing-a-rift-in-the-evangelical-church
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Some people will do anything for money. Even sell their soul.
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Alberta’s book reviewers identify David Barton as one of the book’s subjects of research. Media report that Barton co-founded, “Wommack’s Practical Government School (Charis college)”. Tyler Etheridge who will be sentenced in Jan. 2024, for his role on Jan. 6, is a graduate of the school. Additionally, he is identified in media as a “youth pastor.”
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Charis Bible College has 21 extension campuses in states including N.J., N.Y., Ark., Ohio, Minnesota, Ks., Texas, Fl., Az., etc.
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Jaw-dropping…
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If true, it must be confusing for the Christian’s daughters (their classmates are probably taking to them about it). The girls are about 8 and 10 years old- the alleged situation is likely more confusing than a drag story hour that their parents could refrain from taking them to.
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Oh my… the Queens borough suffered through Santos. Then, last month, The 74 reported/announced the first NYC chapter (Queens) of M4L was operational.
Presumably, if M4L came to an ethical (i.e. not hypocritical) vote, Mike Johnson would vote, “aye.”
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Don’t forget Ziegler’s Hillsdale College connection. She tried to have the district on which she was the school board chair buy the curriculum. According to a Miami newspaper, there are tapes. This is not going away anytime soon. the arrogance of thinking this would not come out.
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Lordy there are tapes……
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Scandal is not a new thing at Hillsdale. A former President, the one credited with the greatest influence in advancing the school to national prominence, had his moment of scrutiny.
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Linda, was that the Hillsdale president who had an affair with his daughter in law?
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He resigned after questions were raised about the relationship and the daughter-in-law’s “suicide.”
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Gotta admit, I get a thrill of schadenfreude from this story.
For logophiles, there’s a synonym! Greek roots: “epicaricacy.”
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Had to look up “epicaricacy”
Good one, for a logodaedalian!
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Yes! Liberty for Moms!
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Moms for Carnal Knowledge of the Kingdom?
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Moms with the liberty to control OUR lives.
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