Ron DeSantis Calls Disney Lawsuit “Political,” Again Hammers Company On Opposition To “Don’t Say Gay” Law
deadline.comFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed The Walt Disney Co.’s lawsuit over his effort to strip the company of authority over its sprawling Walt Disney World property.
DeSantis called the litigation without “merit” and “political,” while defending his moves against the Mouse House as merely putting the company on an equal playing field with other theme parks and resorts. “Giving a company its own government, that is not what a free market is all about,” DeSantis said during a visit to Jerusalem. “In fact, they’ve been treated much different than Universal, Sea World and all these other places.
And so they’re upset because they’re actually having to live by the same rules as everybody else. They don’t want to have to pay the same taxes as everybody else, and they want to be able to control things without proper oversight.” Disney filed suit on Wednesday against the governor and his appointees to a special district board that oversees the company’s Florida property.
Disney claims that the governor’s moves against the company were retaliation for Disney’s opposition to a parental rights bill last year, known as the “don’t say gay” law by detractors.
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