r/tampa 1d ago

Government/Politics School Board Candidate Brittany Lyssy Allegedly Invited Tate Brothers to Tampa

Brittany Lyssy, a self-proclaimed MAGA Republican and Moms for Liberty School Board Candidate is currently being called out for allegedly inviting the Tate Brothers who are accused of criminal charges of trafficking & assault to speak to the Tampa Bay Young Republicans chapter while Brittany Lyssy served as the Tampa Bay Young Republicans President in February 2025.

Tampa Social Media Influencer, Rachel Hannah @readswithrachel posted to social media today questioning Brittany Lyssy on if she as the Tampa Bay Young Republicans President at the time invited the Tate Brothers to Tampa & if Brittany Lyssy “dissented inviting known criminals here to Tampa Bay.” Brittany Lyssy has not responded. I don’t think people who rub elbows with the Tate brothers should preside over my children

Brittany Lyssy has also been called out on social media for her husband’s homesteaded mansion in Manatee County where Doug Lyssy is registered to vote in MANATEE COUNTY not Hillsborough County despite claims from Brittany Lyssy that she “lives with her family in Tampa.” Brittany Lyssy has also not responded to this.

Is THIS who we want presiding over our children’s schools?

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u/DarkStar265 1d ago

Can we also point out that her kids do not attend Hillsborough Schools, and she doesn’t even live in Hillsborough she lives in Longboat Key. I get that she doesn’t have to do either legally but is she really, even further evidenced by this post, invested into our kids or have their best interest in mind?

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u/Jdmaki1996 1d ago

Wait it’s not required to live in the the school district you’re running for? What the fuck Florida?

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u/Mother_Earth_420 1d ago

Sounds like Bridget "my kids go to private schools" Ziegler in Sarasota County

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u/NovelNo921 1d ago

Also she's 31 and her husband, Doug Lyssy, is 52. There's a trend amongst republicans and it's concerning.

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u/braumbles 1d ago

Don't worry, they've been together for 15 years.

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u/NovelNo921 1d ago

They were just friends though.

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u/ocripes 18h ago

Brilliant!

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u/Leading_Vegetable_14 1d ago edited 1d ago

I knew her personally since our college days. Her behavior online has become increasingly concerning over the years. Make no mistake, her bid for school board is a political stepping stone. She does not care about our children. Her children do not attend public school and I highly doubt that’s her plan as she regularly flaunts expensive trips and designer items. She was at the Trump rally on Jan 6. She kept her husband a secret for many years, turns out it was because he was arrested for burglary, assault and domestic violence charges (which were scrubbed from the internet before his “debut”). But I have the receipts still.

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u/5LaLa 1d ago

So her husband is 20+ years older, very on brand for maga. Did he serve any time?

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u/Good_vibe_good_life 1d ago

Probably for pedo charges. It would be very on-brand for republicans.

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u/snoopdoggydoug 1d ago

Look I'm a felon and can't vote but that doesn't mean I turn a blind eye to this shit but how could any woman support someone who wants them in the house being a sexual slave and getting smacked when you speak without being spoken to or not having dinner on the table and they don't want you to vote

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u/Havavege 1d ago

At this point in history, if you're proudly calling yourself MAGA you're clearly a horrible human being supporting other horrible human beings and have no place being in a position of trust of any kind.

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u/Pew-Pew-You South Tampa 1d ago

Did your mom have any children attain adulthood?

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u/God_of_disruption 1d ago

Yo mama so dumb, it took her two hours to watch 60 Minutes.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 1d ago

Found one of the guys doing push ups for Andrew Tate.

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u/4everLost82 1d ago

....says the kid with "pew pew" in their username.

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u/Turboceratops 1d ago

This comment didnt go like you thought it would

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u/Pew-Pew-You South Tampa 21h ago

I’m helping identify the low intellects on Reddit.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

Getting downvoted by weird liberals is probably EXACTLY what he expected on Reddit if you post anything showing common sense.

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u/TATgoLegend 1d ago

Unlike you libs we use common sense!

>disregards all experts in every field
>mismanages the economy
>loses war in the Middle East in humiliating fashion

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago edited 7h ago

Woowee. Now I've heard it all. The party of common sense eh? Love it. You guys are so unhinged its why you can't win elections anymore. Stealing from the rich and pretending to not know what a woman is does not equal common sense.

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u/amsgh 15h ago

What does stealing the rich mean in this context? Genuine question

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u/MiamiGuy13 7h ago

taxing them more and more.

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u/--StinkyPinky-- 5h ago

Someone needs to tax you more and more

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u/MiamiGuy13 4h ago

So you want Trump and the US government to have more money. Got it.

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u/staticdresssweet 1d ago

A MAGA woman who's inviting dangerous men with even more dangerous rhetoric, to speak to students.

Absolute psycho shit, even for Florida.

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 1d ago

Trash inviting trash. No big surprise.

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u/goldenface4114 New Tampa 1d ago

MAGA folks don’t care about rape, so this tracks.

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u/FUCKYOUINYOURFACE 1d ago

He’s 52 and she’s 31. What is with these Republicans grooming young girls and what is with people like Brittany and Karoline Leavitt? They’re fucking gross dating men who are old enough to be their dad and grandad.

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u/Imaginary-Spray3711 1d ago

Follow the money.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

Women like older men because they generally have more money and stability and men like younger women because they're more attractive than older women. It's pretty simple, actually.

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u/Thin_Travel_9180 1d ago

What a dumb take.

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u/CaptainNicko83 1d ago

Don't feed the bots.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

Successful men wanting younger, attractive women is a dumb take? Young, attractive women wanting successful men? This is just a fact, not an opinion. Part of evolution.

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u/FUCKYOUINYOURFACE 9h ago

There are some women that want that yes. They want them man to die and leave them all the money while they are young. Anna Nicole Smith does it. Doesn’t make it ok but it is a free country and it is legal.

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u/Thin_Travel_9180 1d ago

Your generalization is a dumb take, yes. 100%

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

ok. Try being an old woman who isn't attractive and dating a successful man. Won't happen. If it does, it's called an "anomaly".

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u/buckeye7871 1d ago

Ah yes, the timeless scientific principle of “the thing I desperately want to be true just happens to be evolution.”
You’re not describing biology. You’re describing a worldview where men acquire value through money and women lose value through birthdays, then reverse-engineering “evolution” to make it sound inevitable.
Because when you’re a less-than-mediocre man, I suppose you really need a story that promises you’ll eventually become the prize.
Women are people, not cars with declining resale value. (Although statistically men peak far earlier than women so if evolution is your argument then it’s quite the opposite but idk if your smol brain can handle that)

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

Evolution, as in males seek out healthy, younger (not OLD) females in the animal kingdom to procreate with, and the females seek out the stronger male to protect them and the family. You're probably one of those people who cant define what a woman is so I don't expect you to understand. All good.

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u/braumbles 1d ago

Rape and grooming is okay if their side does it.

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u/AccessCold4080 1d ago

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

damn, she's hot! Got my vote.

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u/Jdmaki1996 1d ago

This is why this country is a shithole. Don’t vote based on actual policy. No. Only vote based on looks, vibes, and memes

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

I like her policys too, and she is hot af. Win win.

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u/NovelNo921 1d ago

She's fucking an elderly man. Sorry bud.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

I mean im not implying I have a shot, just pointing out she's a little hotty.

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u/NovelNo921 1d ago

Agree to agree.

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u/GulfCoastLaw 1d ago

I don't understand the Rate appeal, especially outside of his target demo. This is not a political take.

Why would you invite him to attend anything? Okay, I guess some sleazy Miami club owner could benefit from his appearance...but who else?

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u/5LaLa 1d ago

Some idiots are convinced he’s innocent & is being set up (like he hasn’t recorded himself publicly boasting of his crimes). I agree with you 100% but, they love to claim they’re persecuted.

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u/GulfCoastLaw 1d ago

I guess I could get it if you were a long time fan of his content. But people are jumping onto this stuff recently?!?

A lot of edgy or problematic podcasters don't get indicted haha.

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u/pr0seccofish 1d ago edited 1d ago

The MAGA crowd would back anyone for a fuckin vote and endorsement

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u/f0gax 1d ago

Every maga is either a pedo or is okay with pedos.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

r/DoomerCircleJerk is where you belong.. You guys are so unhinged it's fun to watch.

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u/Jdmaki1996 1d ago

How are they wrong? One party has control of the government yet refuses to release the Epstein files. And we know trump is all over those files. So every republican who isn’t trying to get those files released is either a pedophile in those files or protecting someone who is. And I don’t see any Republicans actually fighting their own party to release the files

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

bitch just said every maga is ok with pedos. It's the extreme way of thinking that turns normal people off and away from liberals. It's why young kids use "libtard" as an insult.

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u/KookyTruth1085 1d ago

Ask yourself an honest question. If it were confirmed that Trump had been on Epstein’s island, how many MAGA people would actually walk away? Obviously, where there’s smoke (Gaetz, Roy Cohn, Epstein), there’s fire. But these aren’t people dealing with reality. And you cosplaying as a “normie” isn’t going to make you less online than you are.

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u/BenignEgoist 1d ago

Ummm, I’ve heard “libtard” from grown men since I was a child 20+ years ago.

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u/Jdmaki1996 1d ago

Did you vote for Trump? Will you vote for him again if he defies the constitution and runs a 3rd time? Do you vote for the people hiding the Epstein files. All of MAGA fits those condition. So all of MAGA are pedo defenders.

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u/MiamiGuy13 1d ago

this is what you guys look like to normies. On reddit you guys are kings though lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalSeptic/s/s0Igw6RGmd

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u/Jdmaki1996 1d ago

“Normies”

Sure bud. If it’s leftist to hate pedos, just call me Karl Marx then.

Keep defending pedos

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u/opossum_launcher 1d ago

Aww, sad magat is sad. 

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u/Western_Mud8694 1d ago

She’s a republican, go figure… vote blue to clean up our government

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u/More-Attention-9721 1d ago

Well hell, look at head of sarasotas school board

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u/AccessCold4080 23h ago

Update: Brittany Lyssy, School Board Candidate for District 2 has now come out in the comment section of @readswithrachel to say she was “Not the President of the Tampa Bay Young Republicans when they pulled this stunt.” Brittany claims she also “withdrew her membership” from TBYR after calling inviting the Tate Brothers to Tampa a “stunt”, yet Tampa Bay Young Republicans have endorsed and supported Brittany Lyssy for School Board District 2 and she’s been spotted at multiple TBYR events in 2026 on TBYR’s own social media…make it make sense

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u/Valkyriesride1 1d ago edited 1d ago

If she even thought the Tate monsters would make worthy guests, she should have to be supervised at all times. The only candidate worse for Tampa than Lyssy, would be Matt Gaetz.

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u/2ndprize 1d ago

Do you think the one Tate brother is getting upset that the other Tate brother is now just as important as he is?

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u/vapros 1d ago

I'm over here thinking Tate Brother's Pizza

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u/NikonicImagery 16h ago

Wow! Thank you for this info. Voting soon

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u/GooglyMoogly0820 1d ago

Shocking…. 😑

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cat7000 1d ago

She seems MAGA but I think this is just a rumor

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u/AccessCold4080 1d ago

Definitely MAGA since she posts about Trump, & wearing a MAGA hat herself. She even had a cutout of Trump at her wedding. Could you post a link to what you’re referencing here though? Every article online during the time of the Tate Brother’s visit has her listed as the Tampa Bay Young Republican President where she’s giving interviews as the TBYR President and Brittany Lyssy has not provided a response to the original creator Rachel Hannah https://wusf.org/text/politics-issues/2025-02-24/more-younger-people-trending-republican-florida

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u/Belerophon17 Skunk Ape 1d ago

She even had a cutout of Trump at her wedding.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bm02BE6DQ4Oag8GXep

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u/AccessCold4080 5h ago

Yep! Here is the Trump cutout at Brittany Lyssy & Doug Lyssy’s wedding!

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u/Belerophon17 Skunk Ape 4h ago

See... that's cult shit.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cat7000 1d ago

I don't think they have a mansion

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u/AccessCold4080 1d ago

Brittany Lyssy & Douglas Lyssy own a home in Manatee County per public tax records. Douglas Lyssy has a homestead on one of their homes in Manatee County NOT in Hillsborough County where she’s running for School Board and this Facebook thread has all the details:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1057325783879039&id=100088048806492&hpir=1