DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DeSantis is term limited. Even if his successor is a Republican (likely) it’s less likely the person will feel like picking a fight with Disney. Disney just has to ride this out three more years.

They need to fund candidates who will give Disney what they want. The previous district is gone.

The district was renamed. They couldn’t dissolve RCID because of the bond debt. The board is also filled with DeSantis donors, I mean, appointees. Those board members are making $400K/yr off this job. I don’t even know how that’s legal.

Are you surprised by the legality of the previous board buying Disney passes for employees? Extra millions for Disney's bottom line taken out of the government expense line.

Do you work? What benefits are you upset about receiving - transportation subsidy, healthcare subsidy, gym subsidy, what about 401k matches? It’s an employment benefit you dote.

+1. And they were giving it to people like firefighters. Heaven forbid the Reedy Creek firefighters be able to afford to take their family to Disney! Seems like a great retention tool to me!

[Anonymous]

one doesn't have enough eyes to roll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DeSantis is term limited. Even if his successor is a Republican (likely) it’s less likely the person will feel like picking a fight with Disney. Disney just has to ride this out three more years.

They need to fund candidates who will give Disney what they want. The previous district is gone.

The district was renamed. They couldn’t dissolve RCID because of the bond debt. The board is also filled with DeSantis donors, I mean, appointees. Those board members are making $400K/yr off this job. I don’t even know how that’s legal.

Are you surprised by the legality of the previous board buying Disney passes for employees? Extra millions for Disney's bottom line taken out of the government expense line.

Do you work? What benefits are you upset about receiving - transportation subsidy, healthcare subsidy, gym subsidy, what about 401k matches? It’s an employment benefit you dote.

You are right, this sort of thing is common. Lots of hotel managers will hand out repair contracts to companies controlled by them. If a government employee(the board) is using government funds to buy products in which the government employee has an interest, that puts him in violation of ethics laws. That is what the Florida IG has been asked to investigate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis is term limited. Even if his successor is a Republican (likely) it’s less likely the person will feel like picking a fight with Disney. Disney just has to ride this out three more years.

They need to fund candidates who will give Disney what they want. The previous district is gone.

The district was renamed. They couldn’t dissolve RCID because of the bond debt. The board is also filled with DeSantis donors, I mean, appointees. Those board members are making $400K/yr off this job. I don’t even know how that’s legal.

Are you surprised by the legality of the previous board buying Disney passes for employees? Extra millions for Disney's bottom line taken out of the government expense line.

Do you work? What benefits are you upset about receiving - transportation subsidy, healthcare subsidy, gym subsidy, what about 401k matches? It’s an employment benefit you dote.

You are right, this sort of thing is common. Lots of hotel managers will hand out repair contracts to companies controlled by them. If a government employee(the board) is using government funds to buy products in which the government employee has an interest, that puts him in violation of ethics laws. That is what the Florida IG has been asked to investigate.

I seem to have misunderstood the violation. The district meeting video has the chairman explaining that their lawyers explained the issues to them.
They paid out $1000 instead of the passes.
It does not appear to be the case that Disney's having a controlling interest over the board was the issue, since in that case the current board could continue it. They are saying it is illegal for a public board to be benefiting a single company. They are also saying it is illegal to collect gifts from a company that the government is serving. However, this is not a gift but a payment. The board was saying that employees perceived it as a gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DeSantis is term limited. Even if his successor is a Republican (likely) it’s less likely the person will feel like picking a fight with Disney. Disney just has to ride this out three more years.

They need to fund candidates who will give Disney what they want. The previous district is gone.

The district was renamed. They couldn’t dissolve RCID because of the bond debt. The board is also filled with DeSantis donors, I mean, appointees. Those board members are making $400K/yr off this job. I don’t even know how that’s legal.

Are you surprised by the legality of the previous board buying Disney passes for employees? Extra millions for Disney's bottom line taken out of the government expense line.

Do you work? What benefits are you upset about receiving - transportation subsidy, healthcare subsidy, gym subsidy, what about 401k matches? It’s an employment benefit you dote.

You are right, this sort of thing is common. Lots of hotel managers will hand out repair contracts to companies controlled by them. If a government employee(the board) is using government funds to buy products in which the government employee has an interest, that puts him in violation of ethics laws. That is what the Florida IG has been asked to investigate.

Oh Republicans. Never stop Republicating.

[Anonymous]

All you need to know about this is that Ron DeSantis openly admitted that he attacked Disney for its exercise of free speech.

"‘When corporations try to use their economic power to advance a woke agenda, they become political, and not merely economic, actors. … Leaders must stand up and fight back when big corporations make the mistake, as Disney did, of using their economic might to advance apolitical agenda.'” --Ron DeSantis op ed

'Nobody saw it coming, and Disney did not have enough time to put its army of high-powered lobbyists to work to try to derail the bill. That the Legislature agreed to take it up would have been unthinkable just a few months before. Disney had clearly crossed a line in its support of indoctrinating very young schoolchildren in woke gender identity politics,'” --Ron DeSantis Memoir


His attacks on Reedy Creek are by his own admission, retaliation for speech. He put his own motives down on paper, twice.

[Anonymous]

No one is concerned that there appears to be a pay to play scheme for the districts board seats? Donate $50K to DeSantis and get you have the chance to get a very part time gig that pays $400K/yr?!

[Anonymous]

uh oh.. now the firefighters in the Disney district who backed Desantis got their free tickets taken away, and now they're mad. Oopsies.

https://news.yahoo.com/disneys-firefighters-backed-desantis-feuded-143443169.html

Disney World's first responders once backed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which had autonomous control over the land that Disney occupied.

"Anything has got to be better than what we currently have," Tim Stromsnes, the communications director of the Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Local 2117 union, told the Orlando Sentinel in January.

But now firefighters are having second thoughts after the new oversight board moved to strip them of special Disney perks they've had for decades. Last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the rebranded Reedy Creek board, revoked all of the firefighters' free passes to the Disney parks and resorts. First responders told the Miami Times this made visits to the theme park unaffordable.

"The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here," a firefighter named Pete Simon told the Miami Times.

A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' new board at a monthly meeting last Wednesday about the free passes and what they meant for them and their families. They said in the meeting the discounts afforded to them by Disney were a major reason they chose to work there, the Miami Times reported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:uh oh.. now the firefighters in the Disney district who backed Desantis got their free tickets taken away, and now they're mad. Oopsies.

https://news.yahoo.com/disneys-firefighters-backed-desantis-feuded-143443169.html

Disney World's first responders once backed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which had autonomous control over the land that Disney occupied.

"Anything has got to be better than what we currently have," Tim Stromsnes, the communications director of the Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Local 2117 union, told the Orlando Sentinel in January.

But now firefighters are having second thoughts after the new oversight board moved to strip them of special Disney perks they've had for decades. Last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the rebranded Reedy Creek board, revoked all of the firefighters' free passes to the Disney parks and resorts. First responders told the Miami Times this made visits to the theme park unaffordable.

"The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here," a firefighter named Pete Simon told the Miami Times.

A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' new board at a monthly meeting last Wednesday about the free passes and what they meant for them and their families. They said in the meeting the discounts afforded to them by Disney were a major reason they chose to work there, the Miami Times reported.

Most of the firefighters benefited because they got money instead of a pass they didn't use. You would have to go 10 times a year for an annual pass to be worthwhile.
The ones who lose out are the ones who took their kids and got multiple free passes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh oh.. now the firefighters in the Disney district who backed Desantis got their free tickets taken away, and now they're mad. Oopsies.

https://news.yahoo.com/disneys-firefighters-backed-desantis-feuded-143443169.html

Disney World's first responders once backed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which had autonomous control over the land that Disney occupied.

"Anything has got to be better than what we currently have," Tim Stromsnes, the communications director of the Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Local 2117 union, told the Orlando Sentinel in January.

But now firefighters are having second thoughts after the new oversight board moved to strip them of special Disney perks they've had for decades. Last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the rebranded Reedy Creek board, revoked all of the firefighters' free passes to the Disney parks and resorts. First responders told the Miami Times this made visits to the theme park unaffordable.

"The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here," a firefighter named Pete Simon told the Miami Times.

A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' new board at a monthly meeting last Wednesday about the free passes and what they meant for them and their families. They said in the meeting the discounts afforded to them by Disney were a major reason they chose to work there, the Miami Times reported.

Most of the firefighters benefited because they got money instead of a pass they didn't use. You would have to go 10 times a year for an annual pass to be worthwhile.
The ones who lose out are the ones who took their kids and got multiple free passes.

Sure go ahead and lecture the firefighters about what they should want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:uh oh.. now the firefighters in the Disney district who backed Desantis got their free tickets taken away, and now they're mad. Oopsies.

https://news.yahoo.com/disneys-firefighters-backed-desantis-feuded-143443169.html

Disney World's first responders once backed Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which had autonomous control over the land that Disney occupied.

"Anything has got to be better than what we currently have," Tim Stromsnes, the communications director of the Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Local 2117 union, told the Orlando Sentinel in January.

But now firefighters are having second thoughts after the new oversight board moved to strip them of special Disney perks they've had for decades. Last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the rebranded Reedy Creek board, revoked all of the firefighters' free passes to the Disney parks and resorts. First responders told the Miami Times this made visits to the theme park unaffordable.

"The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here," a firefighter named Pete Simon told the Miami Times.

A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' new board at a monthly meeting last Wednesday about the free passes and what they meant for them and their families. They said in the meeting the discounts afforded to them by Disney were a major reason they chose to work there, the Miami Times reported.

Most of the firefighters benefited because they got money instead of a pass they didn't use. You would have to go 10 times a year for an annual pass to be worthwhile.
The ones who lose out are the ones who took their kids and got multiple free passes.

Sure go ahead and lecture the firefighters about what they should want.

Those firefighers need a lecture, alright, on how it was dumb to support Desantis.

[Anonymous]

Assuming the firefighters got the same park benefits as cast members, they get what we call “golden tickets” a few times per year. Good for park hopping, no black out dates, etc. Cast members get passes for everyone in their household. So, if you have 3 kids, annual passes would be worth more than $1K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assuming the firefighters got the same park benefits as cast members, they get what we call “golden tickets” a few times per year. Good for park hopping, no black out dates, etc. Cast members get passes for everyone in their household. So, if you have 3 kids, annual passes would be worth more than $1K.

For some of those firefighters, this was the only reason they got a job there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming the firefighters got the same park benefits as cast members, they get what we call “golden tickets” a few times per year. Good for park hopping, no black out dates, etc. Cast members get passes for everyone in their household. So, if you have 3 kids, annual passes would be worth more than $1K.

For some of those firefighters, this was the only reason they got a job there.

[Anonymous]

Florida this weekend: