DeSantis Appoints QAnon Nut To Board Of Education

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Esther Byrd to the state’s Board of Education, a move that will almost certainly serve to further politicize that appointed panel. Byrd is the wife of Rep. Cord Byrd of Neptune Beach. Rep. Byrd, the incumbent in the current HD 11, is one of the House Republicans who sided with the Governor by voting against redistricting maps preserving a minority-access district in North Florida.

Rep. Byrd won re-election handily in 2020, but during that campaign, his spouse’s comments that catered to the fringe elements in the GOP came to the fore. In October, Mrs. Byrd offered an unsolicited defense of the Proud Boys, a group of men who bill themselves as “western chauvinists.” Those statements came months after Byrd made comments supportive of QAnon after the couple was photographed on a boat flying a QAnon flag.

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.@GovRonDeSantis has appointed widely acknowledged #QAnon believer Esther Byrd to Florida’s state Board of Education.

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— Peter Schorsch ?? (@PeterSchorschFL) March 11, 2022

Esther Byrd, defender of Jan. 6 rioters, named to @GovRonDeSantis‘ Board of Education

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