Palm Beach Post readers’ opinions on DeSantis vs. Disney World
Letters Editor’s Notice: If there was ever a Matter A, it really is the war waged by Gov. Ron DeSantis towards The Disney Co., the state’s largest employer and a main motor in the state’s primary industry, tourism. The story has dominated Florida news cycles and The Palm Beach Post’s letters part. Here’s a sampling of what our audience had to say:
Retribution in file time
It is so amazing to me that our elected representatives had no time at all during the standard session of the Florida Legislature to do a little something about childcare, foodstuff insecurity, cost-effective housing or a residing wage. They did, however, have time to ban books, micromanage universities and go right after Disney when Disney stood up to the governor. Much better check out out Republicans. You may be using on the mouse that roared.
Annette Jackson, Delray Seashore
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Disney overplayed its hand
The the latest motion by Disney CEO Robert Chapek is a textbook example of a CEO overplaying his hand and shooting himself in the foot. It will likely go down as a person of the catastrophic blunders in American business history. Disney’s inventory rate has now declined almost 30% in current months. CEO Chapek has turn into to the Disney shareholders what Normal George Custer was to the 7th Cavalry by overlooking an elementary rule of helpful leadership: In no way fail to remember who you are.
Gerald Farmer, Ocean Ridge
Punishment could backfire on Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks he’s clever by cancelling Disney’s tax status. If they decide around time to abandon Florida and recreate their enterprise in a more welcoming point out, which they have the means to do, quietly amassing the land needed then goodbye Florida, the people really should be alarmed more than enough to toss DeSantis out of office environment.
Saul P Heller, Peabody, Mass.
Bizarre retribution in opposition to the “Mouse”
I have been a resident of this condition for almost 50 years and I thought I experienced witnessed it all. I’ve witnessed crazy legislative motion in my day but hardly ever anything like the the latest “distinctive session” of the Florida Legislature. The session was originally identified as for redistricting, a controversial adequate problem as our governor vetoed both congressional maps published by the Florida Senate and Home and opposite to the Florida Constitution.
Then Gov. DeSantis known as for an even stranger law more than what lots of say is the bigoted “Never Say Homosexual” law that DeSantis championed and The Disney Co. opposed. This sweeping new law, which revokes 50 decades of Disney managing its own assets, definitely really should have been the topic of discussion. This swiftly identified as regulation was entirely retribution for Disney opposing DeSantis. It manufactured our state appear like a two-yr-aged throwing a mood tantrum. Personally, I am ashamed of the way our governor and Legislature acted. I would like they would act like responsible adults and not spoiled children.
Jim Eisenberg, Palm Beach Gardens
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Disney vs. DeSantis protection biased
Your front website page story ‘Disney vs DeSantis’ is biased and unprofessional. The distinctive preparations built for Disney have been a fantastic software that has been valuable to all functions. Typically, such incentives are made available to providers for outlined periods to support defray the prices of growth. It is not in Florida’s best passions that the specific arrangements keep on being in spot endlessly.
Disney’s Board of Administrators part is to handle business coverage in the very best curiosity of shareholders and customers. It is a organization for profit not a political motion entity. Sadly, Disney has entered into a fringe woke plan that has pitted by itself from condition regulation, several shoppers and shareholders. Clearly a no-earn scenario.
The Publish tale line is created as a conflict concerning Disney and DeSantis and not the full critique of all impartial districts produced in advance of 1968. A qualified newspaper would tactic every tale objectively with all sides equally claimed.
Charles Lyday, Boca Raton
Disney: at the time-liked concept park also ‘woke’
However yet again yet another example of Republican hypocrisy. Initially, they give businesses a voice in the political course of action by means of “Citizens United.” Now, they stifle that voice when it differs from Republican viewpoints, as with the Disney corporation, by stripping it of the exclusive status it savored for in excess of 50 many years. This shift will price tag Orange and Osceola taxpayers. I speculate if Gov. DeSantis realizes that he ruined the childhood recollect
ions for his very own children. Many others have been banned from Disney houses for much less.
I didn’t know Mickey and mates had been Democrats until eventually Gov. DeSantis’ campaign pointed it out. Stands to reason. Mickey and Minnie have a popular law marriage. Donald Duck is a quasi-nudist devoid of pants. Daisy Duck and Minnie have Feminist attitudes, and Tinker Bell has been an icon of LGBT community for yrs. Tiana and Pocahontas converse for the Black and Native American communities, when Mulan, Elsa, Anna, Stich, Olaf, Jasmine and Aladdin symbolize democratic acceptance of immigrants. Only Dumbo looks to be in the Republican camp, and I believe he needs to use his large ears to fly from the Republican circus.
Karen Zaremba, Lantana
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Disney needs to rethink GOP assistance
In contrast to several considerably essential general public reforms, the Governor and his GOP legislators took just one day to repeal a legislation permitting Walt Disney World to run a non-public governing administration about its attributes. It was to punish Disney for disagreeing with their draconian “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. Considering that this spiteful legislation goes in effect in 2023, maybe Disney ought to publicly donate all the money it generally offers GOP candidates to Democrats for the mid-term elections.
It’s quite clear that Republicans do not legislate for the the greater part middle and working class citizens. The Democrats do and would be jubilant to overturn that awful law and allow Disney to keep on remaining the premier employer in Florida and contributing billions of pounds in income to Florida’s coffers. It is much easier than transferring to one more deserving state.
Jude Smallwood, Royal Palm Beach front
Disney a beachfront in political war
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has once more demonstrated that the Republican Occasion of this era is not one which seeks to increase rights, but to diminish them. His war on The Disney Co. for its demanding of the governor’s repugnant “Really don’t Say Homosexual” invoice is manifested in a bid to strike again by ending Disney’s designation as an entity which is permitted to operate a personal federal government.
The GOP that tells us that it seeks to get governing administration out of the way now seeks to get it in the way: to use the law to diminish voting rights, civil rights, labor legal rights, and the correct to an early-time period abortion. Republicans guide the way in selling laws to ban the participation of transgender people in women’s athletics rather than leaving that choice to neighborhood officers. A lot more outrageous are its initiatives to make voting a lot more restrictive and difficult and to preclude individuals whom it considers undesirable from casting ballots.
This is the GOP predicted to win in the future elections. We need to be careful what we would like for.
Oren Spiegler, Peters Township Pa.
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