Florida school board recommends ouster of Moms for Liberty co-founder over Republican sex scandal
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board voted on Tuesday to recommend the resignation of one of its members because she is embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault investigation into her husband, the Republican Party state chairman.
The Sarasota County School Board cannot directly remove Bridget Ziegler from the panel but voted 4-1 Tuesday for a resolution requesting that she step down. The resolution was authored by board Chair Karen Rose, who said in an email that she is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the rape allegations involving Ziegler’s husband, Christian Ziegler, and the couple’s admissions about having a three-way sexual encounter previously with the accuser.
“I personally care about Bridget and her family and deeply regret the necessity for this course of action, but given the intense media scrutiny locally and nationally, her continued presence on the Board would cause irreparably harmful distractions to our critical mission,” Rose wrote.
Bridget Ziegler is co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group. She has served on the board since 2014, when she was appointed by then-Gov. Rick Scott, and has previously been its chair. She voted against the resolution, saying she was “disappointed” but gave no indication she would step down. She remained on the board’s dais after the vote.
Disgraced tech CEO who allegedly kept assistant
as ‘sex slave’ palled around with Kevin Spacey
at glitzy summit
The San Francisco tech CEO accused of forcing his former assistant to sign a degrading “slave contract” palled around with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey at the same World Economic Forum meeting where the victim claims he abused her.
Tradeshift co-founder Christian Lanng, 45, hobnobbed with Spacey, 64, at the NGO’s glitzy annual summit in Davos, Switzerland in late January 2016, a photo shared on the Tradeshift Facebook showed.
“Tech fan Kevin Spacey with Tradeshift founder Christian Lanng at the Tradeshift Sanctuary in Davos,” the caption read.
The encounter also took place at the same gathering where Lanng’s accuser – identified only as Jane Doe – says the tech whiz assaulted her in public, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed Thursday.
Lanng was fired from the San Francisco-based cloud network in October for what the company described at the time as evidence of “gross misconduct on multiple grounds.”
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