DeSantis calls for resignation of embattled Florida GOP chairman after sexual battery complaint

[essentialsaltes]

Florida GOP censures Chair Christian Ziegler and strips him of authority amid sexual assault investigation​

The leadership, which voted 39-0, decided not to conduct a special investigation into Ziegler.

 

[Pommer]

Florida GOP censures Chair Christian Ziegler and strips him of authority amid sexual assault investigation​

The leadership, which voted 39-0, decided not to conduct a special investigation into Ziegler.

An investigation would only drag the whole sordid affair out.
No-one wants that!

 

[Bradskii]

An investigation would only drag the whole sordid affair out.
No-one wants that!

Did someone say 'drag'? They definitely don't want that...

 

[iluvatar5150]

Florida GOP censures Chair Christian Ziegler and strips him of authority amid sexual assault investigation​

The leadership, which voted 39-0, decided not to conduct a special investigation into Ziegler.

Has the Florida GOP finally got onboard the MeToo train and started accepting women’s allegations without an investigation? Man, when did they go woke?

 

[essentialsaltes]

(as noted upthread, but worth repeating: police have reportedly obtained video taken on Ziegler’s phone that contradicts key parts of the woman’s account.)

Christian Ziegler also under investigation for video voyeurism amid rape accusation probe​

Embattled Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler is under investigation for video voyeurism amid accusations that he raped a woman, according to court documents.

“I think [Ziegler's] lawyer did the right thing,” Camareno said. “He may have opened up another Pandora box by giving information, or providing proof that he may have committed another crime, but a third-degree felony of video voyeurism is a lot better than a sexual battery allegation because that’s a first-degree felony. You’re going to prison.”

 

[The Barbarian]

I don't get it. They want to toss this guy out for doing less than Trump was found guilty of doing. He's just following in the footsteps of Beloved Orange Leader.

 

[essentialsaltes]

UPDATES!

January:

Florida Republican Party ousts Christian Ziegler as chairman​

February:

Christian Ziegler’s search history revealed in new documents from Sarasota rape investigation​

Detectives found a 2021 text message from Ziegler to the accuser that stated “I can come thru window,” which appeared to corroborate a claim she previously made to officers. In a series of text messages between the Zieglers, also from 2021, Christian described the alleged victim as “an alcoholic, nice person with some issues,” before the pair contemplated finding a new sex partner.

As for the search history (from right after his first visit from detectives):

• How prearrest criminal investigations work
• Sexual battery settlement average
• What is the average settlement for a premises liability sexual assault case
• Subpoena Instagram Vanish
• How quick police criminal investigation
• Only Fans
• How sex crimes are investigated and prosecuted in the state of florida
• Chief of Sarasota detectives
• What happens when someone presses charges against you
• Sexual Battery
• Consent sexual how
• Can vanish mode messages be recovered on Instagram
• Sarasota sex crime attorney
• Faraday bags for tablets, phones and laptops Go Dark bags

And now
MAY:

Ex-Florida GOP Chair’s Efforts to Recruit 3-Way Partners for Anti-LGBTQ Wife Revealed: Report​

A stunning police report reveals how Christian Ziegler, the now-ousted Florida Republican Party chair, would head out to bars to scope out and recruit women as possible three-way sex partners for himself and his stridently anti-LGBTQ wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler.

The Sarasota Police Dept. report, according to the Florida Trident, “recounts how Christian Ziegler went ‘on the prowl’ in bars for women to bring home to Bridget, a Sarasota County School Board member who has backed a number of anti-LGBTQ measures at both the state and local level, for threesome encounters. While at the bars, Christian would surreptitiously photograph prospective women and text the photos to Bridget for approval, according to the report.”

 

[iluvatar5150]

UPDATES!

January:

Florida Republican Party ousts Christian Ziegler as chairman​

February:

Christian Ziegler’s search history revealed in new documents from Sarasota rape investigation​

Detectives found a 2021 text message from Ziegler to the accuser that stated “I can come thru window,” which appeared to corroborate a claim she previously made to officers. In a series of text messages between the Zieglers, also from 2021, Christian described the alleged victim as “an alcoholic, nice person with some issues,” before the pair contemplated finding a new sex partner.

As for the search history (from right after his first visit from detectives):

• How prearrest criminal investigations work
• Sexual battery settlement average
• What is the average settlement for a premises liability sexual assault case
• Subpoena Instagram Vanish
• How quick police criminal investigation
• Only Fans
• How sex crimes are investigated and prosecuted in the state of florida
• Chief of Sarasota detectives
• What happens when someone presses charges against you
• Sexual Battery
• Consent sexual how
• Can vanish mode messages be recovered on Instagram
• Sarasota sex crime attorney
• Faraday bags for tablets, phones and laptops Go Dark bags

And now
MAY:

Ex-Florida GOP Chair’s Efforts to Recruit 3-Way Partners for Anti-LGBTQ Wife Revealed: Report​

A stunning police report reveals how Christian Ziegler, the now-ousted Florida Republican Party chair, would head out to bars to scope out and recruit women as possible three-way sex partners for himself and his stridently anti-LGBTQ wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler.

The Sarasota Police Dept. report, according to the Florida Trident, “recounts how Christian Ziegler went ‘on the prowl’ in bars for women to bring home to Bridget, a Sarasota County School Board member who has backed a number of anti-LGBTQ measures at both the state and local level, for threesome encounters. While at the bars, Christian would surreptitiously photograph prospective women and text the photos to Bridget for approval, according to the report.”

It's not gay if you're just doing it for fun, right? I don't see the contradiction here.

 

[The Barbarian]

DeSantis supports Trump, who has been found guilty of worse by a court, but wants this guy to resign before he's even convicted? Yep. Two-tiered system, as far as republicans go.

 

[iluvatar5150]

DeSantis supports Trump, who has been found guilty of worse by a court, but wants this guy to resign before he's even convicted? Yep. Two-tiered system, as far as republicans go.

Those tiers being who likes Trump and who doesn’t.

 

[BCP1928]

Has the Florida GOP finally got onboard the MeToo train and started accepting women’s allegations without an investigation? Man, when did they go woke?

They just want it out of the spotlight. It's much better optics to have a former GOP chairman arrested for sexual assault than a sitting GOP chairman. It's not as if they took such cries seriously.

 

[essentialsaltes]

They just want it out of the spotlight. It's much better optics to have a former GOP chairman

Added bonus for the state GOP, the scandal cannot be taught in Florida history classes.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is calling for the resignation of Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler, who is ensnared in a police inquiry involving alleged sexual battery.
“He’s innocent till proven guilty, but we just can’t have a party chair that is under that type of scrutiny.”

This. I agree with this.

I know people can and do make false accusations for personal gain, but you really can't have someone under police scrutiny for a potential current offense in a position of authority, if he is some kind of sex offender you don't want to subject women to having to work under him.

The individual in question should take the personal time to deal with the legal issues and come back to public life after his name is officially cleared, or of course not if not.

Stuff like this gives me the creeps.