Sometimes it Isn't Just the Hypocrisy

Sorry I was mostly in for her.

Text message to Christian Ziegler, Chairman of the Florida republican party, from an unidentified woman who was backing out of a menage a trois involving Ziegler, his wife, and her.

Although Bridget Ziegler had participated in at least one previous three way sexual encounter she had let her husband and the woman know she couldn't be there that day. Perhaps her duties as a Sarasota, FL schoolboard member, or her work on the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District kept her away. We will probably never know for sure, but her absence obviously meant a lot to the other woman involved. 

Apparently Christian didn't take the news well. He allegedly showed up at the woman's door shortly after receiving the text with his little head fully engorged and entirely in control of his big head. The woman has accused him of rape while Ziegler, an architect of Florida's notorious, "Don't Say Gay," law claims the sex act was consensual. 

Other than admitting to the cops she had done the group grope the year before, Mrs. Ziegler, the mother of three, hasn't commented on the incident. 

Everyone else has and  is though. The blow back, so to speak, has been massive. Florida republicans, including Ron DeSantis have demanded Christian Ziegler resign his $120,000 per year job as state party chair. So far he has refused. The Sarasota school board voted 4-1 to ask Bridget to resign. (Her vote was the lone dissenting one) 

How long either of the can hang on is up in the air. It has been reported Chris Ziegler told the state party he would go away if they paid him $2 million. He denied it, but then he has been denying a lot of shit lately. Yesterday the Grand Pooh-Bahs of the state party voted to strip Ziegler of all his power and lowered his salary to $1 buck a year. The word is at their next meeting in early January if he isn't gone they will fire him.

Bridget can't be fired by the schoolboard. This being Florida, only DeSantis can do that. The Governor is currently too busy losing the GOP presidential nomination in Iowa to worry about local schoolboards. Moms for Liberty, the book banning radical right group she cofounded, (she dropped out of it a year after she helped form it) has also remained strangely silent. Who knows why. Could it be large portions of the membership are out experimenting with each other as these words are being written? After all, those closets in some conservative households are starting to look pretty damn deep.

The Sarasota police are still trying to sort out the facts from fiction in the rape allegation. Christian Ziegler has yet to be charged. In addition no one has accused Bridget of anything other than what could be best described as felony hypocrisy. 

And there in lies the rub, as Big Bill Shakespeare used to say. If Christian and Bridget hadn't spent their entire careers screeching about what other people do in private--the rape allegation aside--no one would give a rat's ass what they do there.

Indeed, sometimes it isn't just the hypocrisy. Sometimes it is the sheer scope and arrogance of the hypocrisy. 

12-18-23