Ron DeSantis Signs Law Stripping Walt Disney World of Special Privileges: ‘A Corporate Kingdom Comes to an End’ (Video)
thewrap.com“A corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Monday at the Reedy Creek Improvement District fire station.
The press conference was held to announce he had signed the bill that strips the Walt Disney Company from many of its self-governing privileges that have been in place since the late 1960s.DeSantis repeated his “there’s a new sheriff in town” line, which he has trotted out before, and then said “accountability will be the order of the day.” This was met with applause by his small in-person audience.
With Disney out of the way, DeSantis said he was hoping to acknowledge people like those that work for the district’s fire department; he also gave a shout-out to a Disney employee who started an anti-vaccination website.“Since the 1960s, they’ve enjoyed privileges unlike any company or individual in the state of Florida has ever enjoyed.
They controlled their own government. They had exemptions from laws everybody else had to follow. And they were able to get huge amounts of benefits without paying their fair share of taxes and racked up $700 million worth of municipal debt,” DeSantis said.
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