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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a fresh offensive against Disney Monday after its last minute attempt to neutralize his oversight of the entertainment giant.
Speaking in the shadow of a number of Disney Parks in Lake Buena Vista, DeSantis said the GOP-controlled state Legislature will move to annul a brazen bid by the company to strip his remade supervisory board of power.
“Disney did special deals to circumvent that whole process,” he said Monday. “They controlled the board. It was basically a legal fiction where they negotiated with themselves to give themselves self-governing status. That’s in direct defiance of the will of the people of Florida.”
DeSantis asserted the state Legislature has the ability to quash Disney’s actions outright and will do so.
“You’re not going to have Disney have its own government in Central Florida,” he said. “You’re going to live under the same laws as everybody else.”
DeSantis, 44, previously expelled the five Disney-backed members of a panel that oversaw the since-renamed Reedy Creek Improvement District and handpicked their replacements.
