News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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lazyboy97o said:
No, Reedy Creek employees are not essentially Walt Disney World employees. The idea that Disney would just not pay taxes is ridiculous. That’s illegal and would not be allowed to stand.
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Yes RCID were essentially WDW employees, and WDW can simply not pay taxes. This is just reality.
You say "That’s illegal" I laugh at that!!!
 
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GimpYancIent

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
If he has a good general counsel and the new board lady is intelligent…that’s exactly what’s going on.

But a behemoth can’t stay silent for long.

I know nothing…but I’m still confident that replacement talks are at least going on in the back alleys…doubt anything will happen at this point though.

Is his contract not going to be renewed barring anything miraculous before next year?

I would have said <10% chance on 1/1/22. Now? Higher.
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A man of honor would have resigned. But then it's B.C.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Casper Gutman said:
Oh, and by the way, the government punishing private entities for views they don't like is absolutely unconstitutional. Up until about six years ago it was a third rail of US politics - violating it would have rightfully ended a political career. But a lot of people have found it easier to abandon the foundational principles of the USA rather then doing the unpleasant work of being honest about what is happening in the political and social arenas. So instead, we get, "Yeah, its blatantly unconstitutional, but its directed at people saying things I don't like, so I'll continue to support the people violating everything the country stands fo
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The wholesale embrace of Princely tribalism should be alarming to all. It’s a complete abandonment of the civil discourse required for a functioning republic. The full embrace of deceit to achieve aims, with the deluded idea that dishonesty will somehow beget truth and dignity.
 
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shambolicdefending

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lazyboy97o said:
They lose control. If there’s a pothole they know they can get fixed quickly and in a way that minimizes disruption to guests. They don’t have to wait for the county to get around to it some day.
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I have to believe there's more to it than that. I just can't figure how more timely pothole repairs, to use your example, are worth more than a billion dollars to them.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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shambolicdefending said:
I have to believe there's more to it than that. I just can't figure how more timely pothole repairs, to use your example, are worth more than a billion dollars to them.
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It’s not just potholes. It’s all of the infrastructure and planning. They control it largely without interference. All of those new flyover intersections that have been built they were able to just build, they didn’t have to convince the county to build them and work out a funding mechanism to pay for them. Before the pandemic it was looking like one of the major roads to Epic Universe would not be completed by the time the park was opening because Universal was moving faster than the county.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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LAKid53 said:
As soon as the governor signs SB4-C into law, Disney lawyers will be filing a motion in court to overturn it on the grounds the new law violates existing law. They have a year until RCID is dissolved.
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Well it’s good the RCID workers will have a year to decide what they want to to personally.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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lazyboy97o said:
It’s not just potholes. It’s all of the infrastructure and planning. They control it largely without interference. All of those new flyover intersections that have been built they were able to just build, they didn’t have to convince the county to build them and work out a funding mechanism to pay for them. Before the pandemic it was looking like one of the major roads to Epic Universe would not be completed by the time the park was opening because Universal was moving faster than the county.
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This

Just look at how Disney through Reedy Creek has completed the western way extension west to Avalon but the county (lake in this case) sits on its butt regarding the planned extension to US27. It’s desperately needed to help congestion along 192 and Avalon. Disney/RCID completed their end in a timely fashion…. The county stalls and attempts to pass it off to private developers to fund.
 
Tha Realest

Tha Realest

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I’ve self-edited a lot of comments and eventually just not posted many of my thoughts. I think ultimately what makes this fascinating is how it touches on so many issues: Disney’s presence as a cultural and economic hegemon (in the world and in central Florida), it’s use as a proxy by culture warriors on both sides, presidential aspirations, local politics score-settling, legislative process and attendant hijinx, the notion of corporate cronyism, a former CEO with a titanic ego that couldn‘t help but draw contrasts between he and his successor, notions of First Amendment freedoms of a private corporation and retaliatory governmental sanction, and, at the heart of it all, a Scopes Monkey Trial type of debate in terms of appropriate in-classroom discussion.
 

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