Amongst other things, the professors faulted Ladapo for misuse of statistics and cherry-picking his data. The turmoil led to the recent resignation of the countys well-respected elections director, Lisa Marra, who said she was disparaged and harassed as she refused to comply with the efforts. Immigration has historically been a powerful positive force for America, but it must be regulated in a way thats both fair to immigrants/asylum seekers and not disruptive of citizens work and lives. The new law changes the districts name from the Reedy Creek Improvement District to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and subjects it to various layers of state oversight. The move comes after Crosby and Judd for months challenged the countys fall election procedures in ways that drew national attention, including attempting to illegally hand count all ballots and then refusing to certify the election results, against the advice of the county attorney and the secretary of state. Florida Gov. Jen Fifield is a reporter for Votebeat based in Arizona. The plans for Florida were much grander than for DisneylandMr. Antivaxers love to claim that 32,000 people have died from the covid vaccine, because there have been 32,000 reports of people dying after being vaccinated. Counties arent prevented from doing what they think is right, Fontes said. Just google open border and congressman, congresswoman, or senator and youll get a list too long to print. 0000003235 00000 n Earlier this year, Floridas legislature passed a law that would change certain parts of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, primarily when it comes to the selection of the Board of Supervisors that control the District and Disneys relative power over that. At the ceremony ending Disneys special status on Monday, DeSantis portrayed his move not as a culture war tactic but as a question of good governance. 0000004093 00000 n The agreement approved Tuesday is only temporary. Most countries dont demagogue immigration: they regulate it with real laws that have real teeth against employers who hire non-citizens to exploit them for cheap labor. AllEars.Net, AllEars Newsletter and any other properties owned by AllEarsNet, LLC are not When Marjorie Taylor Greene was on Tucker Carlsons show this week to pitch her divorce between red and blue states (another grand distraction from the GOPs plans to gut Social Security and Medicare), he said, speaking of the alleged differences between Republicans and Democrats: We shouldnt be surprised by lies about open borders coming out of Fox News after the Dominion revelations, but this is part of a much larger story thats worth examining. The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with . 0000048880 00000 n What better way to crush unions than to replace their members with non-union workers who were legally invisible? The agreement Cochise County approved Tuesday is not that specific and it gives Stevens some of the elections directors duties, such as presenting final election results to the board for approval. "Today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end," said DeSantis, who is widely expected to join the race for the White House in 2024, as he signed the bill. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over . The futuristic city never materialized and instead morphed into a second theme park that opened in 1982. pic.twitter.com/st0OEDeBaA, Anika Hope (@AnikaHopeTV) February 27, 2023. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney Worlds self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called Dont Say Gay law. Crosby and Judd dismissed Bendors letter. State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D), who represents the area around Walt Disney World, told Fox 35 after the bill was introduced she believes the legislation is a complete power grab by DeSantis to award his friends these positions of authority, which can then lead to contracts being pushed toward his friends as well. Eskamani introduced an amendment to the bill that would rename the district Florida's Attempt to Silence Critical and Independent Speech and Thought (FASCIST), which did not pass. As Brad Plumer noted in The Washington Post about Reagans 1986 immigration reform: After Reagan stopped enforcing our labor and immigration laws with respect to wealthy white employers, the next 20 years saw a collapse of American citizens working in both the meatpacking and construction industries, among others. As any Republican will proudly tell you, there were huge surges of desperate would-be immigrants and asylum seekers during each of the last three Democratic presidents administrations. Masthead | Thatll Tempt You to Hit Add to Cart, Ranking EVERY Disney Springs Bar and Lounge From BEST to WORST, The One Thing You Cant Do Without at the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival, Youre Skipping the BEST Part of the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival, 5 HUGE Changes You Missed in Disney World Last Month. All Disney artwork, copyrights, Come take a look! What the special districts likely overhaul will mean for Disney and people who travel to Walt Disney World. 0000008790 00000 n And every time they do, word travels from these GOP politicians and publications to desperate people south of our border. H\j0E The Disney brothers said they wanted control over who their neighbors would be in Florida. Its way past time for our media to call out Republican exploitation and demagoguery of this issue so we can finally and comprehensively reform our immigration laws. The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in two segments: Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED) and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products (DPEP). "6CrB=Y d"#d(885J_ tb`q"hmy@6bdt;5l35'T6k10F@; ; endstream endobj 44 0 obj <>>>/Metadata 41 0 R/Outlines 25 0 R/Pages 38 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 45 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Tabs/W/Thumb 26 0 R/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 46 0 obj <>stream Piano Sign Up. The futuristic city never materialized and instead morphed into a second theme park that opened in 1982. DeSantis has also thrown his weight behind school board candidates in an effort to appoint officials who are friendlier to his administration and more broadly enacted policies aimed at eradicating diversity efforts and so-called wokeness from school curriculums. incurred and will continue to incur additional costs to address government regulations and the safety of . Disney World, with its 75,000 employees, is the largest employer in central Florida. We built this house on sand, English said, clearly referencing the false claims about election fraud the board has heard in recent work sessions leading up to the supervisors decision. 0000041456 00000 n The dont say gay measure formed part of a spate of similar anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have swept the US amid a rightwing assault on progressive policies they mock as woke. VAERS reports guide future research, not shape medical decision-making. These were tough jobs, but in both cases provided people who just had a high school education with a solid entry card into the American Dream. How would that look exactly? Disney was 2022's top-grossing film studio for the seventh straight year, drawing in $4.9 billion globally. But they need to stay in their own lane. In May 1967, Gov. DeSantis moved quickly to penalize the company, directing lawmakers in the GOP-dominated Legislature to dissolve Disney's self-governing district during a special legislative session, beginning a closely watched restructuring process. Allowing a corporation to control its own government is bad policy, especially when the corporation makes decisions that impact an entire region, he said. This month, the governor called on lawmakers to return to the Capitol for another special session to finalize state control of the district, as well as approve legislation around some of his other key legislative priorities on immigration and voter fraud. %PDF-1.7 % The coming months will be critical to DeSantis as he builds his profile out beyond Florida. Speakers at the event included a parent who criticized Disney for speaking out against the states education bill, saying the company chose the wrong side of the moral argument. In 1963, they flew to Florida and viewed sites, according to historian Rick Fogelsong. This move marks the culmination of a recent feud between the state of Florida and one of its largest and most recognizable companies. 0000001470 00000 n (Well, they found that both Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema had called the situation on our southern border a crisis, as well as a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan who was merely acknowledging the surge of immigrants. Ron DeSantis has assumed control of the board that oversees development at Walt Disney World, seizing leverage over the state's largest employer and . 0000000996 00000 n Today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end, he said at a bill signing ceremony in Lake Buena Vista. 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Quite literally taking their lives in their hands because they believed cynical, unfeeling, uncaring, sociopathic Republican politicians who are lying for political gain. 0000004118 00000 n Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would dissolve Walt Disney World's private government. But when they said they would work to overturn a legal legislation , brought forth and passed by legal representatives , they crossed a line. In both cases, it was my employers who were most worried about my successfully getting the work permits and did most of the work to make it happen. But now theres been an important update. The signing came as DeSantis gears up for an expected presidential run and marks a high-profile legislative victory for a governor whose leveraging of cultural and political divides has pushed him to the fore of national Republican politics. He did this based on a severely flawed, non-peer-reviewed study conducted by unnamed individuals within the Florida Department of Health. "Disney still maintains the same tax breaks but their First Amendment rights have been suppressed," she said in a statement. It attracted over 36 million visitors in 2021, according to the Themed Entertainment Association. Miami (AFP) - Florida's governor seized control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district on Monday, hailing the end of the "corporate kingdom" as he effectively . They were well-paid jobs that allowed construction and meatpacking workers to buy a home, take vacations, raise their kids and live a good, middle-class life with a pension for retirement. And the small percentage of migrants who actually get through our border and survive the trek across deadly deserts provide more cheap labor for Republicans big donors factories and construction sites, along with more Brown-skinned people they can demonize as replacing white Americans on Fox News. Win-win. Supervisors still approved some decisions made by the recorder, and the elections director still did the duties that state law gives to the elections official, such as presenting final election results to the board for approval. "Since the 1960s, they've . The governor has also come under fire for recently replacing the entire board at the New College of Florida, a progressive state-run liberal arts college that DeSantis administration is now trying to remake to be more Christian and conservative. Florida Gov. The group periodically reports on its progress specific to food loss and waste reduction activities, which are a key part of The Walt Disney Company's environmental sustainability goals, including diverting 60 percent of waste from landfills and incinerators. DeSantis and other Republican critics of Disney slammed the company for coming out against the education law, calling it a purveyor of woke ideology that inject inappropriate subjects into childrens entertainment. So its unclear just how much their decisions could turn Disney into something Walt envisioned.. The system is working just the way Reagan envisioned it. According to WESH, DeSantis shared, We had a little bit of a tussle last year over school legislationIf youre going that way as a corporation, those are not the values we want to promote in the state of Florida. He also discussed Disney being treated differently than other companies, and shared, we believed being joined at the hip with this one California-based company was not sustainable.. Based on a lie. DeSantis new effort to hand-pick the special district board is part of a broader effort by the GOP governor and potential 2024 candidate to reshape state institutions he believes are opposed to his policies. DeSantis, whose book, The Courage to be Free, is coming out Tuesday, has moved in recent weeks to expand his political network through fundraisers and meetings with donors, elected officials and conservative influencers, adding to the speculation around his larger political aspirations. The other four members of the panel are: Martin Garcia, an influential Republican lawyer in Tampa who donated $50,000 to DeSantiss reelection coffers last year; Brian Aungst, an attorney who is son of a former Republican mayor of Clearwater; Mike Sasso, an attorney; and Ron Peri, founder of the Gathering ministry which espouses Christian nationalism. READ MORE: This popular church app has become a 'dark' hotbed of anti-vaxxer extremism: report. The creation of the self-governing district was instrumental in Disneys decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s. The meat packers in Wisconsin were doing so well that they sponsored what became the only non-billionaire-owned NFL football team the Green Bay Packers from day one. Under this new bill, the Board of Supervisors for the District (which is currently selected by the majority property owner in the District, a.k.a. The Walt Disney Company is committed to protecting the planet and delivering a positive environmental legacy for future generations as we operate and grow our business. The new law, HB 9-B, nullifies the Reedy Creek Improvement District (), a special tax district the State of Flordia established in 1967 to help Disney build Disney World.Under the rules that . 0000005236 00000 n All employees earn minimum wage or higher. Theres a new sheriff in town, and accountability will be the order of the day.. Florida's Republican-dominated legislature passed a law that would have dissolved Reedy Creek as of June 1 -- but scaled back its plan from dissolution to reform after experts warned the district's $2 billion debts could be pushed on to local taxpayers. Media and internet exposure also drive VAERS reporting. During the media event for the signing, DeSantis also said something to the effect of whats good for SeaWorld is good for Disney, which seems to emphasize more of his claims that this will put Disney on an even playing field with other parks in Florida. The collision between one of the rising stars in the increasingly far-right Republican party and the world-renowned entertainment conglomerate began in March 2022 when DeSantis signed the officially titled Parental Rights in Education bill. At his news conference, DeSantis said he would appoint Tampa attorney Martin Garcia as the chairman of the districts new governing board, along with new board members Bridget Ziegler, a conservative school board member and wife of the Florida Republican party chairman Christian Ziegler; Brian Aungst Jr., an attorney and son of a former two-term Republican mayor of Clearwater; Mike Sasso, an attorney; and Ron Peri, head of The Gathering USA ministry. I know the parks are booming but it will slow down and with under performing agenda driven movies and entertainment , not to mention the failing Disney plus. "We want our kids to be kids, we want them to be able to enjoy entertainment, school, without having an agenda imposed upon them," said DeSantis, who has labeled Disney a "woke corporation" in the past. Disney hired Paul Helliwell, a Miami-based lawyer and former CIA agent. If you are aware of legal authority for the draft Agreement, please promptly provide it to us, Solicitor General Joshua Bendor wrote. Many had suggested that the bill dissolving the RCID that was passed last year was an act of retaliation against Disneys comments against Floridas Parental Rights in Education bill (what critics called Dont Say Gay) and DeSantis seemed to touch on that during the event. Im of the mind, if it aint bad, dont fix it, he said. After lengthy and costly litigation, both the Chancery Court and Delaware's Supreme Court found in favor of the . Walt Disney dubbed one of Disney World's attractions the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), but the name might better describe Disney's design for private government. But there is one major difference with the agreement, which Yuma County Recorder Richard Colwell provided to Votebeat on Tuesday. Ensure operational compliance to company standards including food preparation, loss prevention and safety standards, as well as adherence to applicable state and local government health regulations. At the top of that list just from the past few months, of course, youll find the most contemptible Republican demagogues: Ted Cruz wants everybody south of our border to know that the Biden Open Border Policy [is] A Very Craven Political Decision; Rick Scott wants everybody to know that Americans Dont Want [Bidens] Open Borders; Marco Rubio says theres Nothing Compassionate About Bidens Open Border Policies; Rand Paul is so extreme he tells us Senator Rubio is the one for an open border; Josh Hawley says Bidens Open Border Policy Has Created a Moral Crisis; Tom Cotton Insists the Border is Wide Open; Ron Johnson wants the world to know that Our National Security is at Risk Because Democrats have Turned Border Security into a Partisan Issue; Marjorie Taylor Greene BLASTS Open Border Hypocrites; Mo Brooks opposes Socialist Democrats Open Border Policies for Helping Kill Americans; Lauren Boebert says the Root Cause of the open border crisis is in the White House; Matt Gaetz revealed a complex and deceitful agenda by Joe Bidens Democrat administration to evade our Southern Border law enforcement; Gym Jordan says Bidens Deliberate Support of Illegal Immigration Could Lead to Impeachment; Kevin McCarthy says the Biden Administration has Utterly Failed to secure the open border; Elise Stefanik proclaims Bidens Open Border Policies have been a Complete Disaster. Tom Coles website features Bidens Open Border America; Bob Goode brags about introducing legislation named the Close Bidens Open Border Act; John Rose Calls Out Bidens Open Border Policies; Paul Gosar claims Biden is Destroying America with His Open Border Policies; Roger Williams complains about the Democrats Open Border Problem; Tom Cole wants the world to know that Bidens open border policies have given the green light to migrants and bad actors from around the world; Gus Bilirakis Denounces Dangerous Open Border Policies on the House Floor; The list goes on and on, and these messages have spread all across Central and South America, just as Republicans hoped they would.