The Daily Beast reports:
Tom Edwards is the Sarasota County School Board’s only openly gay member. And Bridget Ziegler did nothing as board chair during a public comment session back in March when a woman baselessly accused him of being a groomer who endangers children.
“I asked her to shut down the meeting and she refused,” he recalled on Friday. “So the only way I could protect our students and their families in our community from that ugly, homophobic rhetoric was to shut the meeting down myself by walking out.”
After a video of Edwards walking out appeared online, Christian Zielger—the chair of the Florida GOP—joined his wife in a smear tag team. He tweeted that Edwards is “Tommy Drama,” adding, “If he can’t take public criticism, he shouldn’t be a public official.”
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A lesser person than Tom Edwards of the Sarasota County School Board would be gloating about the sex scandal threatening to engulf fellow member Bridget Ziegler and her GOP honcho husband, Christian.https://t.co/79KCKX43xf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 1, 2023
Did Tom give you a heads up on the incoming theatrics?
There’s a reason his nickname is Tommy Drama.
If he can’t take public criticism, he shouldn’t be a public official. I was called some nasty stuff as a County Commissioner, but never walked out.
He is doing this for show,… https://t.co/zdcHihEHAQ
— Christian Ziegler 🇺🇸 (@ChrisMZiegler) March 21, 2023
My Quote >> “…if a Democrat Voter is passionate and perverted enough to support the sexualization of kids during school in grades as early as Kindergarten, then I would agree that Florida is probably not the best fit for them.” https://t.co/HCk2HC9C91
— Christian Ziegler 🇺🇸 (@ChrisMZiegler) August 13, 2023