{"id":1447525,"date":"2022-04-20T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447525"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:10:57","slug":"desantis-hits-back-against-disney-moves-to-revoke-special-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-hits-back-against-disney-moves-to-revoke-special-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Hits Back Against Disney, Moves To Revoke Special Privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-hits-back-against-disney-moves-to-revoke-special-privileges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that lawmakers would move to consider terminating Disney\u2019s special district and privileges.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Proclamation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urged<\/a> the state legislature in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1516408588234854410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a> to pass bills eliminating special tax districts created prior to 1968 including Disney\u2019s Reedy Creek Improvement District. Lawmakers are considering legislation in a special session to eliminate the districts, including Disney\u2019s, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allows<\/a> the company to function as its own municipal government and control functions such as taxation, land use, environmental protection and emergency medical services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Speaker Sprowls and Senator Simpson for not only working obviously for the reapportionment but for stepping up and making sure that we make the sunset or the termination on those special districts happen, which I think is very important,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In addition to congressional reapportionment, this week\u2019s special session will include termination of legacy special districts and removal of exemptions from the big tech accountability law. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/67sF4E113I\">pic.twitter.com\/67sF4E113I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1516408588234854410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has consistently supported a more even, fair playing field for all businesses in Florida,\u201d a spokesperson for DeSantis\u2019 office told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cShould a corporation be serving as a regulator and a business at the same time? Should a corporation get to avoid standard environmental permitting processes? Should a corporation engage in eminent domain? Other businesses don\u2019t get these privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move by DeSantis was not intended as retaliation against Disney for their public opposition to Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education bill, the spokesperson told DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was unfortunate that Disney decided to wade into a political debate and attempt to undermine a common-sense law, enacted by a duly elected legislature and signed by a duly elected governor, with the support of the vast majority of Floridians,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cIn fact, it was Disney that \u2018retaliated\u2019 by publicly vowing to \u2018repeal\u2019 or have the law \u2018struck down.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/07\/disney-glaad-transgender-family-lgbt\/\">Disney<\/a> recently came under fire for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/10\/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-dont-say-gay-florida-bill\/\">opposing<\/a> the bill, which <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/florida-house-passes-bill-lgbtq-schools-kindergarten-desantis\/\">banned<\/a> classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for children in kindergarten through third grade. DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/ron-desantis-signs-parental-rights-in-education-bill\/\">signed<\/a> the bill into law March 28. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/left-children-sexuality-gender-crt-twitter-josh-daws\/\">(RELATED: Viral Tweets Explain \u2018Why The Left Wants To Talk To Your Kids About Sexuality\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tensions escalated further when leaked videos purportedly revealed internal Disney company meetings in which employees and corporate leaders reportedly divulged plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/disney-leaked-lgbt-gay-transgender\/\">inject<\/a> gay and transgender content into children\u2019s programs and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/disney-leaked-video-christopher-rufo-queer-gay\/\">help employees<\/a> medically transition their children to the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that lawmakers would move to consider terminating Disney\u2019s special district and privileges.DeSantis urged the state legislature in a Tuesday press conference to pass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1447547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}