“Disney sued us, we have no choice now but to respond,” said the board chair.
The fight has also provided fuel for Democrats as they seek to attack DeSantis. President Joe Biden, during Saturday’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, joked: “I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready, but Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of me and got to them first.”
But it’s not just national figures who are criticizing DeSantis. During Monday’s board meeting in central Florida, a local resident, Douglas Dixon, told board members that he supported DeSantis until he started the “stupid war.”During a Monday press conference, DeSantis said that no business is above the law and Disney was usurping the will of the people by defying legislative attempts to strip it of its power.
“It is wrong for one corporation to basically corrupt the local government and run it as their own fiefdom,” DeSantis said Monday in Titusville, about an hour from Orlando. “It’s been very disappointing to watch this particular company, what they’ve done by advocating things like the sexualization of children, very close relationship with the Chinese communist party — that’s all very problematic.”
The yearlong fight started last year after Florida Republicans passed legislation that DeSantis signed into law, banning teachers from leading classroom lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation for students in kindergarten through third grade.and in response, DeSantis last year pushed the GOP-controlled Legislature to strip Disney of its self-governing status that the company has enjoyed for decades.
Through legislative moves, DeSantis appointed a new board to oversee Disney’s central Florida theme park. But Disney last February quietly signed a pact with the previous board that gave the company more authority.to invalidate the previous pact.
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