Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a ā€œparental rightsā€ group that has sought to take over school boards in multiple states, to the Florida Commission on Ethics on Wednesday.

Tina Descovich was named to the nine-member, Tallahassee-based commission, which investigates alleged breaches of public trust by elected and appointed officials, as well as state employees.

The groupā€™s support for school choice and the ā€œfundamental rights of parentsā€ to direct their childrenā€™s education has also drawn allies such as the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Moms for Liberty has been labeled an ā€œextremistā€ organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.

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    I mean, that, and there are people like me who voted for them for years for reproductive rights reasons. If you canā€™t even get a right to birth control codified in the 20 years Iā€™ve been voting, you arenā€™t effective enough to run the country. Thing is, itā€™s a candidateā€™s job to excite voters, and a partyā€™s job to get them to the polls. The only duty a voter has is to vote. Besides, if the Dems actually gave a shit about the left voting for them, their policy would probably not be alienating leftist voters by blaming them every time the Dems fail.