Florida GOP Suspends Chairman, Demands Resignation Amid Investigation Into Rape Allegation

Published on December 18, 2023

Florida GOP Chairman, Christian Ziegler, has been suspended and told to resign during an emergency party meeting on Sunday, amid an ongoing police investigation into rape allegations against him. Mr. Ziegler has been accused of rape by a woman with whom he and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, reportedly had a prior consensual sexual relationship. Mr. Ziegler has denied the rape accusation and said anything that took place was consensual. Police have not laid any criminal charges. According to a document shared on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, by Lee County GOP Chairman Michael Thompson, Florida’s Republican Party put forward a motion to censure and suspend Mr. Ziegler on the basis he has engaged in “conduct that renders him unfit for the office.”...

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