Join Amazon Prime for exclusive deals, fast shipping, and endless entertainment! Sign up now!
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis implicated Disney in attempting to “commandeer our democratic process,” while promoting the recent Florida bill to deprive the business of its self-governing status in an April 22nd interview on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“They pledged themselves to mobilize their considerable corporate resources out of the coffers of this Burbank, California, based corporation to overturn the rights of parents in the state of Florida—effectively commandeer our democratic process,” DeSantis added. “That obviously is something we very much objected to.”
DeSantis signed a bill previously on Friday liquifying the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the self-governing zone beyond Orlando where Disney developed Walt Disney World. The district, developed in 1967, permitted Disney to serve as an independent body with its own community services and building regulations.
“This company had a deal unlike any company or individual in all of the state of Florida, probably anywhere in the United States. They were self-governing, they had extraordinary powers, they could build nuclear power plants, they didn’t have to go through permitting processes and obviously a lot of tax benefits. And that’s just inappropriate,” DeSantis told Carlson.
Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Tucker Carlson about Florida revoking Disney's special self-governing status.
Read more: https://t.co/wlXgflZD8R pic.twitter.com/wRb8Zrw00Q
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 23, 2022
The Florida legislature passed the bill previously in the week, after Disney took a position against another state law prohibiting classroom instruction on “sexual preference or gender identity” from kindergarten through 3rd grade, which challengers have disingenuously and slanderously described the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Disney CEO Bob Chapek wrote in a letter to workers in March that the business would suspend political contributions in Florida over the law.
“Starting immediately, we are increasing our support for advocacy groups to combat similar legislation in other states,” Chapek wrote in the letter. “And today, we are pausing all political donations in the state of Florida pending this review.”
Some groups of the left “figured out that they can try to subcontract out their leftism to some of these corporations,” DeSantis informed Carlson in the Friday interview.“Their hope was getting Disney involved in that would somehow get me to back down from signing the bill. Well, that was bad judgment on their part because of course we weren’t going to back down an inch.”
