Proud Boy's Feud Is New Mess in DeSantis School Takeover
Source: Daily Beast
'A MENACE'
Proud Boy’s Feud Is New Mess in DeSantis School Takeover
A conservative school board member tried to distance herself from the hate group—the response she got made clear it won’t be that easy.
Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Updated Sep. 03, 2022 3:27AM ET / Published Sep. 02, 2022 10:46PM ET
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Just look at 30-year-old Nicholas Radovich, who showed up in a Proud Boys hat and T-shirt at an Aug. 23 election night celebration following a triple win for right-wing school board candidates in Saratoga, Florida. The three victories tipped the board from a longstanding 3-2 liberal majority to a 4-1 conservative majority and the mood was giddy.
When the time came for a group picture, Radovich and 50-year-old fellow Proud Boy John Hoel joined everybody else. The beaming people crowded around Radovich did not seem bothered by his Proud Boys attire. They did not seem to notice that he was flashing a white power hand signal.
But any number of people spotted it when the photo reached the twittersphere. The resulting furor was what anybody could have predicted. A reporter from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune sought comment from Bridget Ziegler, the one incumbent among the victorious school board members. She responded with a written statement. Her words carried all the more weight because she has played an active role in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “parents’ rights” campaign against “wokeism” in the schools. She was a co-founder of Moms for Liberty. And her husband is the vice-chair of the state Republican Party.
“The Proud Boys are a menace,” she said. “They aren’t involved in the work and they played no part in the win, but they attend public events and try to photo bomb every photo just to secure attention and headlines.”
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