Tom Edwards sees long overdue comeuppance for Bridget and Christian Ziegler
For Tom Edwards, anger at Christian and Bridget Ziegler isn’t a new emotion.
The only Democrat on the Sarasota County School Board, he has long been a political adversary. Shortly after Christian Ziegler became state Chair of the Republican Party of Florida, he called Edwards a “phony, radical, and self-admitted WOKE Liberal Activist School Board,” and said unseating him in 2024 would be a top party priority.
As for Bridget Ziegler, Edwards has sat alongside the conservative on the School Board his entire time in office, two years when he was part of a majority and the last year when he was often on the losing side of 4-1 votes.
It’s no shock, then, that Edwards became the first member of th...