DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney
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Anonymous
Well said. Those signing up for this have no comprehension they are not just sticking it to "the other side, they are screwing themselves. |
Anonymous
| This is a losing battle for him but it's going to be fun to watch |
Anonymous
There was a moment -- when he won and should have cut a deal with Disney and claimed total victory even though it would have been a fair deal. Now because he did not know when to claim virtory and leave the field he will either get spanked by Disney or even if he wins he losses. He will have bashed the state's #1 taxpayer and employer and he will own job cuts, siiues with Disney. His new board knows not what they are doing and will likely screw it up. Even if he wins the big fight, Disney willt ake that board to court over every decision. Fighting Disney was not the issue. The issue with Desantis is judgment. I was a backer but no more. He is not ready for prime time. |
Anonymous
The twitchy thing from the other day is barely concealed/contained rage. It's yet another example that he's not ready for prime time. I don't know what he is doing. He hasn't announced so it would be easy for him to go back to Florida, engage as governor again, and just sit this year out. People and pundits will forget and he could run in '28. As it is, he's drawing lots of negative attention and is going to go beyond the point of no return re: his reputation. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Good piece in the Atlantic today from the then-EIC of The Broward Daily, which sued the Broward Sheriff’s Department for political retaliation in a very similar case. They won. “We won because what Navarro did was plainly illegal. He had used the power of his public office to punish my newspaper for exercising its First Amendment rights. The parallels between Navarro’s actions and those of the current governor are unmistakable. DeSantis has spearheaded the successful move to withdraw something of value from the Walt Disney Company—its 50-year control of the special taxing district that essentially governs a 25,000-acre Central Florida spread including Disney World—in reprisal for Disney’s vocal criticism of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, assailed as homophobic. With DeSantis, as with Navarro, public authorities withheld a public benefit as punishment for exercising a core constitutional right, and yesterday Disney finally sued. Even in 1988, the law in this area was neither subtle nor oblique. Brill told me he got the idea of suing the sheriff from his recollections of a class in constitutional law taught by Thomas I. Emerson, a legendary First Amendment scholar at Yale, and Abrams was able to rely on fresh precedent: a 1986 case out of Mississippi—upheld by the Fifth Circuit—that was almost precisely on point. There, the federal court ordered a local governing board to restore public-notice advertising it had yanked from a local newspaper in retaliation for the paper’s criticism of its performance.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/desantis-disney-free-speech-florida-nick-navarro/673848/ |
Anonymous
ISo when Florida originally created RC tax district to get Disney's business, that wasn't a type of contract? |
Anonymous
+1 There are many posters here who fit your description. They just hate DeSantis. |
Anonymous
Because a misogynist racist is so loveabe! |
Anonymous
He may not be the candidate I'd choose, but he's neither of what you just said. |
Anonymous
his words and actions suggest otherwise. if you are limiting abortion to be basically illegal, that is misogynist, if you are suppressing votes that disproportionately negatively impacts people of color, you are a racist. if you excuse these things, that makes you both. Congratulations. |
Anonymous
YAWN |
Anonymous
dp.. yes we know that right wingers are racist misogynists so this is a yawn for them. |
Anonymous
Read the complaint. It's quite clear where the contracts violations come into play. It's not that the legislation itself is a contract, but that it abrogates - without any evidence for its necessity beyond DeSantis being pissed off at Disney - contracts that Disney entered into through RCID and land developers pursuant to a Comprehensive Plan for development through 2032 already pre-approved by the DeSantis administration. It doesn't take long to read and really lays out the contracts clause and first amendment and takings clause complaints. I don't see a way for DeSantis to win this. Most of the damning evidence comes out of his own mouth. |
Anonymous
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Disney's real problem is they are mixed up in FTX.
In 2017, a whistleblower went to the SEC saying Disney was covering up $3 billion in missing funds. Bob Chapek was suddenly fired on a Sunday night, not even allowed in the building on Monday. Something they didn't want him to see. This was shortly after the FTX implosion. Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank was a spokesman for FTX, and he appeared on CNBC and at one point mentions a big investor, Bob Iger. Now, after Iger comes in, he announces cost cuts, to a total of $3 billion. |
Anonymous
The YAWN is for scripted left wing speech that gets repeated ad nauseum for anyone the left winger doesn't like. It's beyond boring and loses its meaning over time. |