A Sarasota County School Board member is facing calls to resign after a sex scandal involving a threesome came to light — but if you ask Zander Moricz, a 20-year-old activist from Florida, that’s not why Bridget Ziegler should resign. She should resign, Moricz believes, because she’s bad at her job, not because she had a threesome.
Ziegler came under fire after details of a three-way sexual relationship became public amid a sexual assault investigation into her husband, Christian Ziegler. (The alleged victim told police the three-way sexual encounter was consensual and the assault happened after that first encounter.) Christian Ziegler, the Florida GOP chair, has been called upon by many, including Governor Ron DeSantis (R–FL.), to resign in light of the allegations.
As for Bridget Ziegler, who is also founder of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing advocacy group formed in the aftermath of COVID-19 school closures and mask mandates that supports anti-LGBTQ policies, activists are using her of hypocrisy and pressuring her to resign from the School Board. In a school board meeting addressing her conduct, Ziegler didn't comment much, even as she was told by one attendee, “Most of our community could not care less what you do in the privacy of your own home, but your hypocrisy takes center stage.”
Enter Zander Moricz, who first made headlines for suing the state of Florida in reaction to the legislation called “Don’t Say Gay.” In a now-viral clip from a December 12 school board meeting, Moricz said Ziegler serves as a reminder “that some people view politics as a service to others while some view it as an opportunity for themselves.”
Moricz goes on to address her directly: “Bridget Ziegler, you do not deserve to be on the Sarasota County School Board, but you do not deserve to be removed from it for having a threesome. That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you, which is that a politician's job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives. So to be extra clear: Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job. Not because you had sex with a woman.”
Teen Vogue asked Moricz why it felt important to him to differentiate why he feels Ziegler should be fired. “It’s important that as we call out Bridget’s hypocrisy, we don’t become hypocrites ourselves,” Moricsz said. “Bridget, and all of us, should be free to love whoever we want – it’s what she’s done in the boardroom, not in the bedroom, that makes her a disgrace.”
Though she’s facing pressure to resign, Ziegler has refused to do so and said she was disappointed to be asked. As reported in The Washington Post, only Gov. DeSantis has the ability to remove Ziegler from her position, and if he doesn’t do so, she will finish her term in 2026.
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