Ron DeSantis appoints anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group co-founder to powerful state commission

Tina Descovich co-founded Moms for Liberty, an anti-LGBTQ+ organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an “extremist group.”

Tina Descovich
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has appointed a Moms for Liberty co-founder to the state’s ethics commission.

On Wednesday, the struggling 2024 presidential hopeful announced that he had appointed Tina Descovich to the Florida Commission on Ethics, which oversees the conduct of state employees and investigates complaints of “breach of the public trust,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.

DeSantis made the announcement in a press release, but did not specify why he wanted Descovich on the commission. Her appointment must be approved by the Florida Senate, where Republicans currently hold a supermajority.

“It will be a privilege to serve the state I love as a member of this commission,” Descovich wrote in a post to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday.

As the Sentinel reports, Descovich was elected to the Brevard County School Board in 2016, but served only one term before being unseated…

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