![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lawsuit Disney filed against DeSantis last week pointedly cites the court’s 2010 decision in the controversial Citizens United case that invoked the First Amendment to protect political spending by corporations, and it asserts the sanctity of contracts, a cause of great importance to conservatives.ĭisney’s freedom of speech is the core issue, no matter how DeSantis contrives to deny it. ![]() Supreme Court, and the governor should not be overconfident of the outcome. This epic legal clash could reach the U.S. His declared political war on Disney, now more than a year old, has no precedent in Florida or any other state. But DeSantis is eager to break things and bully people to show how tough he is. They all respected a political maxim: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Disney World would transform Florida’s identity, become the state’s biggest employer, a massive growth engine for Central Florida, a tourism mecca for a mega-state and a source of tax revenue last estimated at $5.8 billion annually.įor the next 55 years, including the first three of the DeSantis regime, no politicians in either party challenged Disney’s unique governance. Nevertheless, doing so met only token resistance in 1967. Forming a company town for the Walt Disney Corp., as one senator whimsically described it, was as arguable decades ago as it is to Gov. ![]()
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