Supposedly DeSantis only wants the press coverage and nothing else he or others have stated.
I’m not sure that would be disagreeable to state leadership. It’s what some have sort of said they want and would parallel other current events.
I think this is a false dichotomy. Fighting an injustice and projecting calm levelheadedness are not mutually exclusive. Disney could have done both, and in my view (which I realise counts for nothing) should have.
He's not crazy. He is catering to a particular base that now runs his side of the political aisle. That may help him in the primary, assuming he ever stands up to the other guy we know is running and who has been bashing Ron every last chance he gets. However, it is going to hurt him in the general if he makes it that far.
I honestly don’t think this really hurts him. The District’s set and context are so misunderstood that I’m not sure it would be easy to make it too much of issue without getting stuck with the many misconceptions.
It’s not so much what happened but why it happened that should concern us. If there have indeed been earlier attempts to get rid of or reorganise the district (I myself don’t know, but I’ll take your word for it), were they also motivated by an undisguised desire to punish Disney for exercising its legally enshrined First Amendment rights?
Because it’s abjectly stupid…and always will be. It’s chiseled in stone now.
None of those other times was the hostility towards reedy creek an attempt to silence Disney. And all of those other times the legislature determined that the current agreement was legal and beneficial to the state and any changes would not be in the states best interest
Not really. The legislature did a study about 15 years ago to see what was involved. There was never serious effort to dissolve the district.
At the risk of getting zapped, I will just say that most of the governor's aggressive agenda on other things has actually been carried out rather expeditiously (?) and gleefully (?) by the state. That's why I think you are right to be skeptical that the state takeover of RCID would be an exception.
Oh I'm a little perturbed as for why it was done this time. It definitely comes off as a "welp Disney you're going to criticize us and our law after we let you open your park during the height of the pandemic? Fine say good bye complete autonomy."
I wasn’t suggesting they should declare open war. Extreme rhetoric is always best avoided in such situations. But unlike you, I don’t see any reason to think they’re intending to fight this, discreetly or otherwise. Perhaps they are, in spite of the abject statement they issued. I’d love to be wrong.
Reedy Creek Improvement District was not completely void of state oversight. It even enforced certain state regulations.
Not at all what it means. If Disney came out guns blazing and attacked this setup and the Governor in a statement as many people here would have wanted then they would escalate the conflict which is not good for business. That would be the opposite of cooler heads. This statement does the exact opposite. It tells everyone (shareholders, CMs, customers) that the sky is not falling, that WDW will still continue operating as usual and that they will work with the new district going forward. It has nothing to do with who is right or wrong and isn’t saying they won’t oppose future actions the new board takes.
