Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Threatens to Re-Evaluate Disney’s ‘Special Privileges’ After ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Objection

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finally denounced the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was signed into law earlier this week.After weeks of controversy surrounding Disney’s silence on the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and subsequent walkouts by Disney employees, CEO Bob Chapek apologized and announced a pause in political donations in Florida.

On Monday, Disney reacted to the law’s passage by stating that Florida HB 1557 “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law,” and adding that the company would be working with other organizations to get it repealed.Since then, DeSantis has taken aim at the company several times, including on Thursday when he told reporters that the state government may be re-evaluating Disney’s “special privileges” in Florida. “Someone said, ‘Hey, Disney has all these special perks.

Should you retaliate against them for them coming out and demagoguing this bill?’ ” he said. “I don’t believe you ‘retaliate,’ but I think what I would say, as a matter of first principle, I don’t support special privileges in law.

Just because a company is powerful and they have been able to wield a lot of power.”DeSantis is referring to a state law passed in 1967 that allows Walt Disney World to effectively govern itself.