{"id":1920460,"date":"2023-04-27T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-political-desantis-denounces-disney-lawsuit-2\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:57:52","slug":"its-political-desantis-denounces-disney-lawsuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-political-desantis-denounces-disney-lawsuit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Political\u2019: DeSantis Denounces Disney Lawsuit"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fits-political-desantis-denounces-disney-lawsuit-2%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=1920460&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Disney Sues Florida Governor Ron DeSantis<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0427\/68f374a9-624b-4a4b-8e2c-d41b31275048\/audio.mp3?length=4112397&#038;duration=343\"><\/div>\n<p>Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are in a legal battle over the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gowokegobroke-cruz-lee-call-to-end-mlb-antitrust-protections-after-league-boycotts-georgia\/\" title=\"\u2018#GowokeGobroke\u2019: Cruz, Lee Call To End MLB Antitrust Protections After League Boycotts Georgia\">special legal<\/a> and economic privileges. DeSantis has revoked these privileges, which gave Disney near<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-political-desantis-denounces-disney-lawsuit-2\/\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s Political\u2019: DeSantis Denounces Disney Lawsuit\">-total operational autonomy<\/a> for decades. Disney has accused DeSantis of &#8220;weaponizing its power to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-disney-lawsuit-has-no-merit\/\" title=\"DeSantis Says Disney Lawsuit Has No Merit\">inflict political punishment<\/a>&#8221; on the company for its opposition to the governor&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education legislation. <\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis Responds to Lawsuit<\/h3>\n<p>During a press conference in Israel, DeSantis called the lawsuit a political move that lacks merit. He accused Disney of lacking accountability and transparency, saying that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-wins-control-of-disneys-special-self-governing-district-new-era-of-accountability\/\" title=\"DeSantis Wins Control of Disney\u2019s Special Self-Governing District: \"New Era of Accountability\"\">special privileges granted<\/a> to the company were &#8220;not good for the state of Florida.&#8221; DeSantis added, &#8220;We did not think that should continue, so we now have brought accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Lawsuit Details<\/h3>\n<p>Disney has accused the Florida state government of an unlawful crackdown for expressing an opinion that it says should be protected under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-international-bad-guys-thrilled-to-have-biden-in-office-this-year\/\" title=\"6 International Bad Guys Thrilled to Have Biden in Office This Year\">free speech laws<\/a>. The company claims that DeSantis engaged in &#8220;a targeted campaign of government retaliation&#8221; as &#8220;punishment for Disney&#8217;s protected speech.&#8221; The complaint states that DeSantis doesn&#8217;t plan to stop there, noting that his team &#8220;also planned &#8216;to look at things like taxes on the hotels,&#8217; &#8216;tolls on the roads,&#8217; &#8216;developing some of the property that the district owns with more amusement parks,&#8217; and even putting a &#8216;state prison&#8217; next to Disney World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Disney Calls for Repeal<\/h3>\n<p>The controversy stems from Disney&#8217;s opposition to a law dubbed by its opponents as the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill. In March 2022, Florida lawmakers passed the Parental Rights in Education act, which was signed into law by DeSantis. Disney has called for the repeal of this law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5218417\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/24\/id5218417-Walt-Disney-logo-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> The Walt Disney Co. logo appears on a screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Aug. 8, 2017. (Richard Drew\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday reacted to a lawsuit brought against him by Disney, describing it as a political move that lacks merit, while accusing the company of lacking accountability and transparency. DeSantis made the remarks during a press conference in Israel, where he faced questions on the lawsuit, the latest move by Disney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":1920461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4418,4980,6344,6550,4585,3753],"class_list":["post-1920460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-denounces","tag-desantis","tag-disney","tag-its","tag-lawsuit","tag-political"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920460","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}