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They want to give doofuses the vision of some version of the Vatican. That’s all it is.

Why then is it still not being disbanded, with no plans to ever do so?

The trolls are taking this way off topic again

If that option becomes available to them at some point, they’d likely take it. It seems apparent that they in fact tried to work with the government on this but they were not ever responded to.

But if the counties value Disney’s property higher, can RCID not also tax them more?

The tax thing is an interesting one. RCID has an interest in siding with the counties on that one, do they not? In the sense that they can also tax Disney more and do more with that money. I see far less of an issue with that compared to some other things. But I could be mistaken.

I don’t think you are very well informed on this. They will very specifically not get the same oversight as anyone else.

It’s never been remotely like the Vatican though. It’s been like local government that is still subject to all the same rules and regulations of anyone else in the county or state.

I don’t think it has changed. “A” change to RCID, even though it was for a petty reason, would have most likely had pretty broad support. It’s unarguable that what was actually done goes well beyond that, in addition to the free speech issue.

What news has there been that looks bad?

I wasn’t paying much attention back then, but I do recall it. Wasn’t a significant amount of the controversy less to do with whether or not speech was protected, but more to do with whether or not money was considered speech?

The David French piece is interesting background but I have a hunch that most judges won’t view this as a conservative/liberal thing in the context of the first amendment. If the action taken by DeSantis had been limited to the original idea to dissolve the district, it might be murkier. At...

How is this not just him continuing to play directly into Disney’s hand? If I could have asked Iger this morning, “what’s the one thing you hope Ron DeSantis does today?”… I’m pretty sure his answer would be to sign that stupid bill into law.

Revisiting this from last year… https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-says-he-told-disney-to-stay-out-of-dont-say-gay-fight-2022-6 Shouldn’t this have resulted in some kind of criminal investigation? How do you admit that as Governor you warned a ceo of a company that does a lot of...

This isn’t exactly new, but in light of Disney’s recently filed federal lawsuit and DeSantis now likely trying to separate the actions of the legislature from his own as a defense… this quote seems particularly problematic for him. Blaise Ingoglia (Florida Senate) “I know this governor and I...

Adding more targeted legislation definitely bolsters Disney’s claims in federal court.

My guess is their legal team is going to advise them to stay as absolutely quiet as possible.

Doubtful they would neglect it, but they could certainly stop investing so much in it.

Also wouldn’t anything RCID takes via eminent domain have to be for the benefit of RCID? They can’t just say that it would benefit the district to have a state prison in it.

This is perfect because of how well it refutes the claims being made. It specifically states the same verbiage that they are so hung up on, “shall mail a copy of the notice” but then also explicitly states that “failure of the board to mail any such notice shall not constitute a valid objection...