Gloves off! DeSantis seeks ‘termination’ of Disney World’s self-governing status in special session

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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) upped the ante in his faceoff with Disney and announced at a speech in The Villages Tuesday that he will expand the special session of the legislature, targeting the Reedy Creek Improvement District that governs much of Walt Disney World.

Taking things even further, DeSantis is seeking to do away with a special carve-out that Disney received from the legislature for the so-called Big Tech law that allows individuals to sue social media companies if they are censored. That law has currently been blocked by a federal judge, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

“I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week,” DeSantis declared as the crowd applauded. “And so yes, they will be considering their congressional map. But they also will be considering termination of all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968. And that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.”

The governor also took a moment to express his thanks to House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Senate President Wilton Simpson for “stepping up and making sure that we make the sunset or the termination on those special districts happen, which I think is very important.”

The announcement by DeSantis is yet another domino to fall in the battle with Disney over the “Parental Rights in Education” bill that the left has misnomered as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has proclaimed that the company, which stood steadfastly against the bill that prohibits the teaching of adult-specific topics such as gender-fluidity and transgenderism in kindergarten through third grade, will oppose the legislation that is now being passed in other states. He’s also stopped political contributions from Disney to conservative politicians over the issue.

“Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” Disney had asserted. “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”

DeSantis stated earlier that he was “receptive” to changing the status of the district which was created by a 1967 state law that allowed Walt Disney World to establish its own independent government to control building roads, handle policing, manage zoning codes, oversee the building of a power plant, and even setting up its own airport.

The governor called the special session which is slated to run through Friday if need be. The body will review and approve a congressional map that was submitted by DeSantis, eliminating a congressional district in North Florida and creating four new ones.

DeSantis is calling on the legislature to review all special improvement districts created for private corporations before 1968 in order to determine if they serve the public interest and meet the requirements of the 1968 constitutional amendment. The amendment prohibits special laws granting privileges to private corporations.

“What I would say as a matter of first principle is I don’t support special privileges in law just because a company is powerful and they’ve been able to wield a lot of power,” DeSantis said during a press conference last month, according to Fox News.

“I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years,” he noted at the time.

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15 thoughts on “Gloves off! DeSantis seeks ‘termination’ of Disney World’s self-governing status in special session

  1. Bob Chapek is a moron…. and obviously hasn’t picked up the Bill, let alone read it. He’s another one in a line of woke asswipes running these companies who should be fired by their respective BOD’s and left unemployed. Walt Disney is rolling over in his grave and the Disney Companies should be embarrassed for supporting the teaching of gender studies to these innocent children. Shame of you and your family, Bob!!!

  2. Good step by Florida and now Congress needs to STOP extending disney’s favoritism and let Mickey’s trademark expire like most artist’s creations do after a certain number of years!

  3. CEO Bob Chapek has taken a children’s theme park that has become more about adults and political messaging, and no child is safe to be child at Disneyland or anything associated with Disney! The explicit adult content is not for children! .I will encourage anyone to avoid Disney especially those folks with children. I hope they lose the Micky Mouse theme rights and all rights given while marketing itself specifically to children. Adults are responsible for content their children see and listen to. Given the overwhelming amount of adult messaging encourage by Disney, children are being are forced into adulthood. It’s absolutely wrong! Let children be children!!!

  4. That sway is money from powerful stakeholders such as Blackrock, and a couple of others I forget the names of. They are the ones whispering in the ear of the head honchos at Disney, not the employees.

  5. This guy is a total flaming idiot! There is nothing in this bill that has anything to do with “adults” choosing their lifestyle, it’s totally about grooming & indoctrination of our youth, even prek & k kiddos! Loss of innocence & childhood is not an option that parents should throw away.

  6. Next complaint will be how treating Disney Corp equal to other Florida businesses is somehow unfair.

  7. Thank you Governor DeSantis! This Florida resident says if Disney wants to fok with us, then we need to fok them up. Go woke and go broke….or at least pay a high price.

    1. Go woke and go broke is right. Netflix can attest to that!😊 They have already lost 200,000 viewers! It’s called KARMA! 😆

  8. Medical clinics and hospitals in USA are denying life-saving Ivermectin medicine even with court orders. Big Pharma doing all that they can to push the vaxx and inoculate us while effective and cheap COVID cures exist. There turns out to be censorship that we have never seen before for those who are looking for these treatments. We say over and over again that indepenedent researchers found Ivermectin safe and very effective for these Flu-Corona symptoms. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit ivmcures.com

  9. It’s time for Pedo-land to leave the sunshine state and go back to californication and do what it does best, there. So sick of that place and Florida will be better off without it.

  10. It is time this massively wealthy woke organization stopped getting financial breaks on the backs of average taxpayers. Not only padding their very rich pockets, but in many cases doing so at the expense of the average tax payer.

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