DeSantis Board: Disney Used Free Tickets As “Bribes”

December 5, 2023 Politics, Republicans

Reuters reports:

The board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to oversee Walt Disney’s (DIS.N) theme parks accused the company of giving a previous local board and its employees millions of dollars’ worth of tickets, discounted hotel stays, merchandise and other benefits that were “akin to bribes of public officials.”

“For years, the company treated district employees like Disney employees by, for instance, providing complimentary annual passes and steep discounts — benefits and perks that were akin to bribes,” said the 80-page report, which the new board was required to prepare for DeSantis and the Florida legislature within one year of its creation.

Disney and Florida’s longtime cooperation collapsed last year after Disney opposed a new state law limiting the teaching of LGBTQ issues in schools. In what Disney described as retaliation, the Florida legislature in February replaced the old board with five supervisors handpicked by DeSantis.

Read the full article. One of those “handpicked” board members is definitely not lesbian/bisexual Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, who also sits on the Sarasota County School Board.

Disney’s former special district board members were not, of course, “public officials.” Earlier this year the district’s firefighters union turned on DeSantis when the new board ended their annual passes to Disney parks.



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