Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Who Admitted to Bisexual Threesomes Leaves School Board
On Tuesday, two Democratic-backed candidates won, flipping the Florida school board’s majority.
Conservative Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, who admitted to having threesomes with women with her husband, didn’t run for re-election to a school board seat in Sarasota County, Florida, and the board has lost its anti-LGBTQ+ majority following elections Tuesday.
Ziegler made headlines a couple of years ago when her husband, Christian Ziegler, was accused of raping a woman who had previously been involved with the married couple.
Christian Ziegler, who was chair of the state’s Republican Party, was cleared in that case.
LGBTQ+ rights advocates had called out the Zieglers for what they said was hypocrisy for attacking queer rights while on the school board but then being involved in queer sexual relations.
Bridget Ziegler was one of the founders of the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group Moms for Liberty, which has worked to attack LGBTQ+ topics in schools. During her time on the school board, she supported a variety of policies against queer students. In 2024, she and the school board voted against protecting LGBTQ+ students, LGBTQ+ Nation reports.
Queer youth activist Zander Moricz told her at a 2023 board meeting, “You deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job, not because you had sex with a woman,” according to LGBTQ+ Nation.
“[You] change our district lines for political gain, remove books from schools, target trans and queer children, erase Black history, and elevate your political career – all while sending your children to private schools because you don’t believe in the public school system that you’ve been leading,” Moricz said.
On Tuesday, two Democratic-backed candidates beat conservative ones, flipping the board’s majority. Another Democratic-aligned candidate goes to a runoff in November.
“I really think at the end of the day, regardless of political affiliation, our community was just tired of the culture wars, the political theater and being the center of national attention for all the wrong reasons,” said Megan Tennimon, a former educator who won one of the seats Tuesday told the Washington Post.
