Florida GOP expected to oust leader Christian Ziegler after sexual assault allegation
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
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The Florida GOP is expected to oust leader Christian Ziegler after a sexual assault allegation.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, December 18th, 2023. This is the |
| 0:18.4 | excerpt. |
| 0:19.4 | Today, Florida Republicans have begun a push to oust their leader amid sexual assault allegations. |
| 0:29.0 | Plus we look at the aftermath in Israel after Israeli hostages were work with Israeli forces. |
| 0:34.0 | And we'll take a closer look at Hunter Biden's tax charges. |
| 0:38.0 | We start this work week with a host of political news from around the country and the world. |
| 0:44.0 | First, the Florida GOP yesterday began the process of removing chair Christian Ziegler |
| 0:49.0 | amid sexual assault allegations. The party's executive board voted during an emergency |
| 0:54.0 | meeting to censure his chair, strip his authority, and reduce his salary to $1. |
| 0:59.8 | The board also voted to hold a meeting of the party's full governing body for January 8th in Tallahassee when a vote is expected to remove him. |
| 1:08.0 | A woman claims that Ziegler raped her in October. According to an affidavit, she and Christian agreed to have a sexual |
| 1:14.4 | encounter that included Christian's wife Bridget Ziegler, who co-founded the group Moms for Liberty. |
| 1:19.8 | When the alleged victim learned that Bridget could not make it, she changed her mind and cancelled with Christian. |
| 1:25.8 | She says he then entered her home and assaulted her. |
| 1:28.9 | Christian Ziegler says the incident was consensual. |
| 1:32.0 | Police are still investigating the allegations and have not charged him with a crime. |
| 1:37.0 | If you're a survivor of sexual assault, Rain offers support through the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 866, |
| 1:44.3 | hope or online dot rain.org. That's R A I N N. The family of an Israeli man who fled Hamas captivity in Gaza before being killed by confused Israeli troops buried him yesterday while his brothers blamed the government |
| 2:05.8 | and military for his death. The 26-year-old was taken hostage by Hamas from a Kibbutz in the October 7th |
| 2:12.1 | attack. He and two other Israelis waved a white flag |
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