Sarasota Moms Bring in the Big Guns to Oust Bridget Ziegler

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Mar. 07, 2024 4:30AM EST


The campaign ad begins with creepy piano music and scenes from Trump rallies and the Jan. 6 insurrection. “The far right has brought their brand of violent chaos and bigotry into our schools,” a narrator says, before members of the Proud Boys flash on screen.

Proud Boys—who belong to a male-dominated extremist group—are also pictured at the election night party of Bridget Ziegler, the Florida school board member whose three-way sex scandal has spotlighted the hypocrisy of her anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. “Enough is enough,” the video concludes. “It’s time to bring sanity back to our schools.”

The School Sanity Project launched this advertisement on Tuesday ahead of yet another board meeting that attracted protests against Ziegler, a Moms for Liberty co-founder, and demands for her resignation.

Organizers of this new political action committee told The Daily Beast that they’re coming forward to battle not only Ziegler, whose term ends in 2026, but her colleagues’ extremist ties. Her ally Karen Rose is up for re-election this fall, as is the board’s lone liberal member Tom Edwards, who is openly gay and faced hate speech from right-wing residents.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/sarasota-moms-bring-in-the-big-guns-to-oust-bridget-ziegler

[Dulcinea]

1. 60 Minutes did a story on book bans featuring Moms for Liberty.

What a bunch of smug, entitled Karens. I thought Scott Pelley was going to slap them. I can't wait for these overgrown Mean Girls to go away forever. Infighting will doom them, & I'm here for it.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Bucks County school districts managed to oust them last year

So at least we are purging them out of PA!

[SouthBayDem]

5. A segment you've got to see to believe.

The part where the Moms for Censorship tripped over their words to avoid saying flat out "we hate trans people" is at 7:00.

[IronLionZion]

3. Kind of interesting for these moms to partner with a violent anti-woman extremist group

many of whose members are serving prison sentences for violent crimes.

But of course books are the real danger to children.

[Hotler]

4. And drag queens.

[Timeflyer]

6. Corporate Charter School CEOs now use public school tax dollars to buy GOP politicians

who make laws forcing FL counties to accept corporate charter schools, whether they're wanted or not. Quality of education is the least important consideration for these money-grubbers. Money and political power are their priorities. Students are two-legged dollar signs. Ziegler and Rose are complicit in the coming decline in FL public education.