Woke is a joke. It is a form of political and speech suppression based on false pretenses.
DeSantis for the win
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Woke is a joke. It is a form of political and speech suppression based on false pretenses.
Ron just has to basically ignore and let trump drown in his own bullshit.... the further Ron gets way from trump the better which is why I keep saying he should stop trying to act like him in his policies to feed the masses and just run FL straight up.... that alone will carry him far.
Trump supported many conservative policies. Supporting those same policies doesn't make one "just like Trump". Being an arrogant, megalomaniacal uncompromising ruler who picks a fight with everyone and everything, and never knowing when to keep one's mouth shut would be doing the same as Trump.
But I agree, Ron should ignore Trump as much as possible and take the high road.
I remember when GWB told us that the taxpayers of Florida would be stuck with all the debt when DeSantis did this, if he did it, or he would backtrack. Each one of his calls were wrong. Again.
DeSantis calls out ‘indefensible’ ‘corporate welfare’ as rationale for Disney legislation
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (FLV) – Gov. Ron DeSantis penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal detailing why the Florida government decided to revise its relationship with Disney and the Reedy Creek Improvement District, renamed to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
“On Monday, I signed the law ending the Walt Disney Co.’s self-governing status over 43 square miles in central Florida, an area almost as big as Miami. Disney no longer has its own government,” DeSantis wrote. “It has to live under the same laws as Universal Studios, SeaWorld and every other company in our state and is still on the hook for the old district’s municipal debt.”
DeSantis slammed the 1967 arrangement Florida had, establishing its special district, as “an indefensible example of corporate welfare.”
It provided the company with favorable tax treatment, including the ability to assess its own property valuations and to enjoy the benefits of regional infrastructure improvements without paying taxes toward the projects. It exempted Disney from Florida’s building and fire-prevention codes. It even allowed Disney to build a nuclear power plant and to use eminent domain to seize private property outside the district’s boundaries. While special districts are common in Florida, Disney’s deal was conspicuous in the massive benefits it conferred. Disney’s self-governing status endured because the company’s unrivaled political power in Florida made its arrangement virtually untouchable.
Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Wall Street Journal
The governor noted the Burbank, California-based company has been put on a “pedestal” by Florida until it began fighting against the K-3 Parental Rights in Education Act, which bars classroom instruction in those grades on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Disney executives were seen on videos boasting about the company’s plans to inject sexuality into its programming for children,” he said.
On Democrats’ opposition to Florida Republicans’ crackdown on Disney’s privileges, DeSantis called out their support for Disney keeping its self-governing status.
“Democrats often rail about corporations’ nefarious influence over politics and oppose favorable exceptions for big companies,” he wrote. “Yet they supported keeping Disney’s special self-governing status. This confirms how much the modern left has jettisoned principle in favor of power.”
The law, signed by DeSantis this week, strips Disney of its control over the district, ultimately doing away with many of the company’s self-governing powers. Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud, sponsored the legislation.
The legislation allows DeSantis to appoint members, who are confirmed by the Senate, to the district’s board. The Reedy Creek Improvement District will be renamed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
“The state of Florida is the new sheriff in town,” DeSantis said. “We’ve created a state control board that is going to be responsible for this area.”
DeSantis said he asked the board to look at the compensation for the first responders and give them more compensation for doing a good job.
Last year, lawmakers passed legislation to dissolve Disney’s Reedy Creek district. However, Republican leadership called lawmakers into a special session in February in an effort to make sure Disney’s estimated $700 million in debts would not be dropped to the taxpayers once the district dissolved.
Republicans said the newly-appointed district would ensure the company pays its debts.
The governor’s office said the bill will end Disney’s ability to: build airports, nuclear facilities, toll roads, boundary changes to their property, award noncompetitive construction contracts, and more.
The office said it ends Disney’s exemption from state regulatory reviews and approvals as well as ends Disney’s exemption from the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code.
“From a policy perspective, how do you give one theme park its own government and then treat all of the other theme parks differently?” DeSantis said. “And so we believe that was not good policy.”
DeSantis calls out ‘indefensible’ ‘corporate welfare’ as rationale for Disney legislation
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (FLV) – Gov. Ron DeSantis penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal detailing why the Florida government decided to revise its relationship with Disney and the Reedy Creek Improvement District, renamed to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
“On Monday, I signed the law ending the Walt Disney Co.’s self-governing status over 43 square miles in central Florida, an area almost as big as Miami. Disney no longer has its own government,” DeSantis wrote. “It has to live under the same laws as Universal Studios, SeaWorld and every other company in our state and is still on the hook for the old district’s municipal debt.”
DeSantis slammed the 1967 arrangement Florida had, establishing its special district, as “an indefensible example of corporate welfare.”
It provided the company with favorable tax treatment, including the ability to assess its own property valuations and to enjoy the benefits of regional infrastructure improvements without paying taxes toward the projects. It exempted Disney from Florida’s building and fire-prevention codes. It even allowed Disney to build a nuclear power plant and to use eminent domain to seize private property outside the district’s boundaries. While special districts are common in Florida, Disney’s deal was conspicuous in the massive benefits it conferred. Disney’s self-governing status endured because the company’s unrivaled political power in Florida made its arrangement virtually untouchable.
Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Wall Street Journal
The governor noted the Burbank, California-based company has been put on a “pedestal” by Florida until it began fighting against the K-3 Parental Rights in Education Act, which bars classroom instruction in those grades on sexual orientation and gender identity.
“Disney executives were seen on videos boasting about the company’s plans to inject sexuality into its programming for children,” he said.
On Democrats’ opposition to Florida Republicans’ crackdown on Disney’s privileges, DeSantis called out their support for Disney keeping its self-governing status.
“Democrats often rail about corporations’ nefarious influence over politics and oppose favorable exceptions for big companies,” he wrote. “Yet they supported keeping Disney’s special self-governing status. This confirms how much the modern left has jettisoned principle in favor of power.”
The law, signed by DeSantis this week, strips Disney of its control over the district, ultimately doing away with many of the company’s self-governing powers. Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud, sponsored the legislation.
The legislation allows DeSantis to appoint members, who are confirmed by the Senate, to the district’s board. The Reedy Creek Improvement District will be renamed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
“The state of Florida is the new sheriff in town,” DeSantis said. “We’ve created a state control board that is going to be responsible for this area.”
DeSantis said he asked the board to look at the compensation for the first responders and give them more compensation for doing a good job.
Last year, lawmakers passed legislation to dissolve Disney’s Reedy Creek district. However, Republican leadership called lawmakers into a special session in February in an effort to make sure Disney’s estimated $700 million in debts would not be dropped to the taxpayers once the district dissolved.
Republicans said the newly-appointed district would ensure the company pays its debts.
The governor’s office said the bill will end Disney’s ability to: build airports, nuclear facilities, toll roads, boundary changes to their property, award noncompetitive construction contracts, and more.
The office said it ends Disney’s exemption from state regulatory reviews and approvals as well as ends Disney’s exemption from the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code.
“From a policy perspective, how do you give one theme park its own government and then treat all of the other theme parks differently?” DeSantis said. “And so we believe that was not good policy.”
This is not entirely true....
The proposed legislation would rename Reedy Creek as the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District but states that the new entity will maintain the old one's debt obligations in outstanding bonds—more than $1.1 billion—and its ability to collect taxes from the area it oversees.
Originally DeSantis proposed to eliminate it entirely but backed down when he realized the bond issues would put local counties on the hook to foot the bill. (April 2022 "After trying to dissolve Disney’s special taxing district last year, Republican lawmakers on Monday released a new plan: Rename the district and let Gov. Ron DeSantis choose the people in charge.")(" Less than 11 months before the Reedy Creek Improvement District is scheduled to be abolished, there are still no announced plans to replace any of the governmental services the special taxing district currently provides to the Walt Disney World resort property.")
This was discussed when it was first proposed. So it was a valid concern when DeSantis first announced it but it was changed over time until it got to this iteration which was simply having hte power to appoint its own members.
Disney always exceeded any FL building codes so Disney's exemption of building codes does not achieve anything except a media victory. You think Disney is cutting corners in how it builds hotels and buildings on property?
Conservatives know he had to back down: Alex Bruesewitz, a conservative political strategist, wrote: "So Desantis' big stand against woke Disney amounts to: changing the name of Reedy Creek & DeSantis gets to appoint some of his donors to the board? But Disney gets to keep its nearly tax-free, regulation-free status."
DeSantis said he was opposed to Disney appointing people beholden to Disney yet DeSantis appointed :
The most prominent name DeSantis appointed Monday to the board of the district, which the new law renames the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, is Bridget Ziegler, a conservative education activist who was a major backer of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. She is also a DeSantis-endorsed Sarasota County School Board member and co-founder of “Mom’s for Liberty,” a group that helps train and recruit conservatives to run for school boards. Her husband, Christian, was recently elected chair of the Republican Party of Florida.
Have to look at this with eyes wide open. deSantis renamed the District and put his donors on the board. Other than that....nothing of substance really changes as far as Disney is concenred since they still collect taxes to pay for all the services they provide to the District and are responsible for the bonds. All reedy creek controls is services the government is usually in charge of but often fucks up. Thankfully he simply is rewarding donors with a cushy job and position.
He's dealing w/a low IQ mongrel fanbase (i mean voter base) who'll see his inaction as weakness. "when they go low we go high" was a loser and being a cheap Trump imitation "who hits back" is what won him the state:
Yup; DeClown was told his first proposal would leave the county footing the bill so quietly rescinded it and had people competent rewrite it to stick it to Disney.