Disney Sticks It To DeSantis & Scraps Plan To Move Staffers To Florida From California; “Considerable Changes” In Situation, Parks Boss Josh D’Amaro Says
deadline.comJust over a week ago, Bob Iger rhetorically asked the adversarial Gov. Ron DeSantis if Florida really wanted Disney’s considerable business and tax revenue, or not.
Now, without mentioning the would-be presidential contender nor his attacks on the company, the Mouse House has pulled some of that business and taxes revenues from the Sunshine State.
In a note that just went out from Parks and Resorts boss Josh D’Amaro to Disney Parks, Experiences & Products employees just now, Disney is abandoning its plan to move around 2,000 staffers and their families to central Florida from California.
Announced a few years back to not inconsiderable backlash among some Disney staffers, the planned move was already previously delayed last summer to 2026, as tensions increased between the “woke” bashing DeSantis and the then Bob Chapek-run Disney over Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation and other swipes at the state’s largest private employer. RELATED: Disney World Closing Pricey ‘Star Wars’-Themed Galactic Starcruiser Experience Sure to be a black-eye to DeSantis, the move will not only see Disney toss aside the big bucks building of a new Disney “campus” in Lake Nona, Florida, but offer staffers who have already relocated to the state the opportunity to move back to the West Coast.
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