'Anti-business' and 'anti-Florida': Disney CEO calls out DeSantis as theme park feud rages on

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been feuding with Disney ever since the company called out his super-bigoted “Don’t Say Gay” law. And in an apparent attempt to de-woke-ify the company and return it to the days when its movies were still undeniably wholesome racist, DeSantis sought to strip away its long-held authority to control its own operations, attempting to transfer oversight of the Reedy Creek Improvement District—the special tax district Walt Disney World occupies—to his hand-selected cronies.

Then, proving that it’s traditionally been pretty easy to outsmart people who are monomaniacally focused on petty revenge, Disney struck back, cleverly locking in covenant agreements that took power from DeSantis’ new board and reverted control to Disney—until “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of England’s King Charles III.” Basically forever, in other words.

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While it was a metaphysical certitude that a MAGA conservative would eventually get in a dustup with a cartoon mouse, most of us thought it would involve Randy Quaid relentlessly groin-punching Chuck E. Cheese over a loose Good ‘n’ Plenty that rolled underneath the broken Skee-Ball game. But instead it’s the very serious Gov. DeSantis, pouring sugar (and acid) into one of his state’s main economic engines.