Florida Advances Bill To Strip Disney’s Self-Government

Florida Politics reports:

“When you poke the bear or you kick the bees’ nest, sometimes issues come out,” said Brevard County Republican Rep. Randy Fine, sponsor of HB 3C. Fine and other Republican committee members who spoke made it clear that the bees nest was Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The House State Affairs Committee approved HB 3C 14-7 along party lines. A little later, the Senate Community Affairs Committee, meeting almost simultaneously, approved its version, SB 4-C, also along party lines.

There was little debate over whether the Reedy Creek Improvement District was an appropriate government entity to be created in 1967 to provide Walt Disney World with its own government. Fine suggested it was not, and didn’t find too much disagreement.

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