Posted on 04/18/2023 3:27:24 AM PDT by CFW
This weekend, I contributed to an article for the New York Post with an exclusive on a move by the new board governing Disney properties to declare the recent transfers of power to the company to be null and void. Below is my column on the legal implications of that move and how Disney may be set for a truly wild ride in the weeks ahead.
Here is the column:
Walt Disney used to say, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to put Disney’s own motto to the test — against Disney.
According to a high-ranking Florida official, the newly created Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is set early this week to call Disney on one of the worst bluffs of all time.
The result could prove the House of Mouse made a costly miscalculation.
(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...
On a side note, two years ago Disney’s stock price was $197.00 a share. Today it is barely over $100 and that’s up from it’s low of $84.00 in December of 2022. I don’t think Disney has paid a stock dividend in the past three years. The financial figures show just how much the GIBLET corporate board at Disney has harmed the brand. I would think the share-holders would have cause to sue due to a failure of fiduciary duties.
GOOD!!! I hope this causes Disney to pay enormous amounts of taxes to Florida causing them to raise their prices keeping more people away.
Go woke......GO BROKE!!
Maybe they can just do what Keith Olbermann suggested
Just move Disney World to Puerto Rico
Years ago that toad ride malfunctioned and we went slamming into a door that didn’t open like it was suppose to...or maybe that was the intent. I never figured that out but still remember it. DESANTIS going to be slamming right through Toads door.
I went to a few shops including 1 consignment to buy baby clothes for my 2nd great grandchild due early June. Everytime we pulled an an item from the rack, I said “nope, it’s disney”. After spending nearly 400.00. Not one was Disney. I’ve lived in central florida since 1984. I hate Disney.
We just had someone to our home as an IT consultant who we suspect is a liberal (drives an EV and loves California) who professes to love amusement parks. This person claims DeSantis is violating Disney World’s “Constitutional First Amendment rights”. Ignoramus. These people are just crazy on messing with children, sex and gender. Where is all this coming from. I hope Disney gets run out of town on a rail. Turley is right. Maybe Disney helped Orlando develop years ago, but no longer. Orlando is now a distressed dump, thanks to our broken border, and to voters who worship diversity and multiculturalism.
I don’t think most Floridians realized how much Disney was getting from us and how they operated like a state within a state.
One thing the old deal let them do was decide upon their own safety and workplace standards and even do their own safety inspections. None of the other theme parks had any of these things and instead were required to abide by state rules and be inspected by state inspector.
Another thing is that every time the Florida LEO’s do a sweep or sting to catch child predators, they catch one or two Disney employees in their net. Disney is a large promoter of child sexual abuse. That’s obvious in their current film marketing.
Floridians need to have a good look at their state’s budget.
Red state, my derriere.
Makes you wonder what the Gay Mafia has next in mind.
Yeah! There is a saying...sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. I don’t know what that means, but anything can happen. Open fishing and hunting on the land, build a land fill upwind, environmental regulations, speed traps. Building a prison for child molesters next door would be a good one! Funny that these “liberals” aren’t smart enough to learn from their mafia buddies!
Back in the early 60s, though it was a rapidly growing state, a lot of Florida was still empty. The state had long had the citrus industry but was looking to boost the tourism industry even more.
Thus the state government gave a tremendous sweetheart deal to Disney to open a theme park what had been largely unpopulated orange groves in Central Florida.
60 years later, the deal the state gave to Disney looks ridiculous. Disney could have shut their mouths and continued to profit enormously, but no. They just “had to” push their politics......Its has already cost them billions and is going to cost them many billions more as they get stripped of the special privileges by the state of Florida that they previously enjoyed.
Yep, for one thing, I'd take the first tens of millions extracted from Disney to beef up the police force in Orlando, which has become a mess.
Sounds great for the Florida economy.
They need to pay dearly and they will. These CEO's of these woke corporations are idiots.
Local Miami media is filled with hate for DeSantis. The coverage repeats the lies of the left about the parental laws, etc.
The portrayal is constantly set as the governor fighting Disney, but the fight really is about the elected representatives of the people working to make sure corporate welfare is not abused by the recipients.
Imagine an unemployed guy receiving monies and then going into a government office and telling the people running it what their policies should be. Wouldn’t fly.
And it shouldn’t here, either.
If anyone thinks getting Disney to back down is going to be easy, they’re kidding themselves. DeSantis’s tough talk is not going to make Disney cower. Disney has very deep pockets. There are a number of ways they can use that money to get what they want.
In the coming months people are going to see the difference between a tough talking paper tiger (DeSantis) and someone who really understands leverage and how to use it (Trump). By that time, DeSantis will be focused on his presidential run and hoping people will have forgotten that his war with Disney fell flat. The tough talk will have done nothing but give a push start to his campaign, which is all it was intended to do.
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