This weekend, I contributed to an article for the New York Post with an exclusive on a move by the new board governing Disney properties to declare the recent transfers of power to the company to be null and void. Below is my column on the legal implications of that move and how Disney may be set for a truly wild ride in the weeks ahead.
Here is the column:
Walt Disney used to say, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to put Disney’s own motto to the test — against Disney.
According to a high-ranking Florida official, the newly created Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is set early this week to call Disney on one of the worst bluffs of all time.
The result could prove the House of Mouse made a costly miscalculation.
For decades, Disney had reason to be the “happiest place on Earth.” Florida supported the company by giving it a unique status in controlling its own governance.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District controlled the Disney property, and Disney effectively controlled its board.
Technically, the board was elected by those living on the Disney property, which amounts to a small number of people living among the “cast members.”
It was a breathtaking deal for the company, which set its own building standards, granted its own construction permits and determined the scope of services, building codes, waste collection and other infrastructure matters.
Outside of the Vatican, such self-governance is little more than a fantasy for companies and organizations.
That favored status came to a crashing halt when Disney went public with a pledge to oppose Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act.
The legislation prohibited classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to third grade. It also required “age appropriate” material in other grades.
Then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek originally told workers the company would not take a public position on the legislation to stay out of politics.
Disney employees protested, and Chapek quickly caved, declaring the company would fight to have the law rescinded.
The company has long been “woke” in its policies. But this was a crossing of the Rubicon in plunging into politics.
Disney became the symbol of increasing corporate activism.
While going woke will not necessarily force Disney to go broke, it is facing unprecedented boycotts of its parks and movies, including controversial children’s films with same-sex characters and relationships. On two of those movies, Disney lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
Picking fights with people with general tax authority is rarely a winning strategy for a company.
The state responded by removing Disney’s favored status, gutting the Reedy Creek Improvement District and creating the new board with governing authority over Disney properties.
Disney could still have tried to find a compromise. Instead, it did something even more reckless.
In the final days of the Disney-dominated board, the members voted to transfer powers to the company.
Disney is used to being its own self-governing boss.
That history may have warped its judgment in attempting this power grab. It is a move that would make the pirates of the Caribbean blush.
The “declaration of restrictive covenants” gives Disney total control over development and even bans the new board from using Disney’s name or the names of any of its “fanciful characters.”
It added what is called a royal clause, used in England since 1692.
It specified this “Declaration shall continue in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this declaration.”
Disney may have been too clever by half. The “Hail Mickey” play appears fundamentally flawed.
I have been told the new board intends to treat the declaration as null and void. It appears to have strong grounds to do so.
Indeed, Disney’s legal case seemed no better planned than its political campaign.
First and foremost, under Florida Section 163.3225, a board cannot order such changes without giving a seven-day public notice and other conditions.
You are not allowed a jump scare like Space Mountain — you must give notice on your intended measures.
There is no indication the board did so.
That alone could nullify the declaration. Ordinarily, a board would simply reschedule the vote with proper notice, but the old board is gone.
There are also serious problems with a board using a declaration to nullify a state law and pass a development plan with no actual plan for development.
It is a curious legal claim that this now-defunct board could negate not just current state law but law for the next 30 years.
Instead, the new board will “quit talking and begin doing.” It will proceed with a vengeance.
Since the old board is no more, Disney will have to sue to try to enjoin the new board. For new CEO Bob Iger, this could make Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride look like a walk in the park.
Disney has no good options.
Even if it could sustain this dubious declaration, the state has myriad ways to impose added costs on the corporation.
When you are sitting on billions in a fixed, unmovable 27,000 acres (42 square miles) of real estate assets, declaring war on your host state is remarkably stupid.
Worse yet, this declaration does appear invalid, and I am told the new board is ready to give Disney a rude awakening this week.
Pro-Disney staff will be canned and public hearings planned on the range of new regulations for the Magic Kingdom.
There are a host of areas that will be subjected to inspections, from the elevators to the famed monorail.
There are also salaries for first responders and others, who may have been underpaid by the Mouse.
Likewise, decades of controlling its own environmental compliance will come to an end with the potential for considerable costs and changes.
The “Small World” is going to get a lot smaller with inspectors testing the water, boats and electrical systems.
Shareholders are likely to raise a familiar question over Disney executives’ priorities in pursuing social and political agendas.
This has already cost the company, and those costs are likely to grow in the coming weeks.
Disney will be demanding it alone among companies dictate its own rules as if it were an Indian reservation that comes with its own faux Indians.
Disney is not alone. In recent days, Bud Light and Nike have faced backlashes and boycotts after aligning their brands with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
In the case of Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, the immediate impact was the loss of $6 billion in value.
It joins a long list of corporations embracing political and social causes despite significant opposition from their consumers.
The fight over governance is a no-win situation for Disney, but the corporate leadership didn’t seem to care. That may trigger a long-needed discussion of shareholders’ and consumers’ ability to push back on political or environmental, social, governance (ESG) policies.
Once again, the company seems oblivious to economic consequences of its aggressive postures toward the state.
While this may be popular for executives, it is not popular with a sizable number of consumers, particularly in Florida.
If, as I have been told, the new board proceeds with its plan, Disney will have to make a choice. It can abandon this effort and seek terms with the state.
Or it can move to enjoin the new board. That will again play to the advantage of DeSantis, who has made the struggle with Disney a core part of his legacy.
Litigation would keep Disney in the news in a negative and polarizing way. It would also expose its operations — and relations to this board — to discovery and public scrutiny.
Unlike its opposition to education law, this move lacks any principle, precedent and prospect to succeed.
Even if a court allows a company to effectively grant itself unchallenged authority, even one the size of Disney cannot win in the long run against the third-most-populous state in the union.
With four theme parks, two water parks, 25 hotels and about 80,000 employees, the state has a host of areas where “leveling the playing field” with other companies will cost Disney dearly.
Indeed, DeSantis and the board just might enjoy this. It’s a fight they’ll likely win legally and politically cannot lose.
They will be fighting to force inspections of monorails and elevators, enforce environmental standards, raise salaries of first responders and oppose a company demanding its own laws.
They’ll be seeking to apply the same laws in the same way to Disney as other large corporations.
Disney will have to argue against such a level playing field and demand to be treated as a virtual sovereign over its own “Kingdom.”
That is a fight DeSantis clearly welcomes. As Mary Poppins said, “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.” Whatever happens early this week, it is likely to be fun for everyone but Disney.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.
Juan-Carlos Planas: “Turley was hired by DeSantis’ folks to say all of this. The reason I know this is because I was a Republican legislator in Florida when we hired him on a culture war issue in 2004. Turley is a hack who gets paid.”
https://twitter.com/jcp717/status/1648778644733476870
Seems like Mr. Planas has quite an axe to grind.
Juan-Carlos Planas says
March 29, 2023 at 3:48 pm
The state of Florida and the new board will fail in their lawsuit. The development agreement that Walt Disney World signed with the old Reedy Creek board is valid because it was properly noticed. The only folks that can challenge a development agreement are adversely affected residents of the property. The only folks living on Disney property are Disney employees so they obviously will not sue. The new board does not have standing to sue and if the state tries to sue, they will run into the 1st Amendment issue because it was obvious that the takeover was done to control Disney content. Disney played this masterfully. I am a former Florida legislator and an ex republican disgusted with the party became, but most important, I am a huge Disney fan and I teach a Law school class on state and local government law where we go over the original Reedy Creek law passed in 1967. The Governor should have never messed with Disney.
Taken from:
https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2023/03/29/new-reedy-creek-board-discusses-potential-lawsuit-against-disney/
I’ll take his comments on Mr. Turley with an EXTREMELY large grain of salt.
Right. Everyone who disagrees with you has no principles. His consistent columns on individual freedom and against woke overreach are all because he is “getting paid”.
Is Disney’s “Wild Ride” open yet at Disney World? Any age restrictions?
An interesting tidbit about voting in the RCID – only landowners could vote for the RCID board of supervisors. This is according to “Central Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement District Has Wide-Ranging Authority,” a December 2004 report from Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability. The quote is from page 2 under “Governance.”
“A five-member board of supervisors governs RCID; supervisors are elected every two years at the district’s annual
landowners’ meeting. According to RCID’s special act, an individual must own land within the district in order to serve on the board. Historically, each board member has been deeded approximately five acres of land by an affiliate of the Walt Disney World Co. Board members hold office for staggered terms of four years each. The district’s special act provides that at elections of supervisors, each landowner is entitled to one vote for each acre of land owned; as the largest landowner, the Walt Disney World
Co. is entitled to the most votes.”
The district’s residents are not landowners. They are Disney employees who live in one of two mobile home parks located on Disney land. The residents of Bay City and Lake Buena Vista, who number fewer than 100 combined, could vote on Disney’s tax-free bond packages and for their city mayor. Southern Living does not go into detail on the voting element. A couple of Florida papers ran articles on the subject, but they are not coming up during a cursory search right now. https://www.southernliving.com/travel/disney-world-city-reedy-creek
The silver lining of the battle over Disney has been shining a disinfecting light on the special privileges of this mega corporation. I had no idea that Disney was effectively its own government. That’s a shocking special privilege no company should enjoy. Disney needs to fall under the same governance as any other American corporation. In response to being subjected to the same local governance as any other company, Disney attempted to give itself power as long as the British monarchy exists. Tying their backroom deal to the British monarchy is a slap in the face to this American republic.
Disney is plowing public relations with American families into the ground with its far left ideology and elitist sensibilities.
Most American families do not want their children encouraged to change their gender or to experiment with sexuality. Gender dysphoria used to be vanishingly rare. Tragically, studies have shown the disorder is observed in a population with a higher than average instance of sexual abuse, along with other mental health disorders. The dysphoria disproportionately affected boys, typically noted in early childhood. Today, dysphoria is spreading like a plague, with more girls than ever before identifying as teens as transgender. The entire movement is based on gender stereotypes. If a girl does not engage in stereotypically female behaviors, she’s told she’s really a boy trapped in a girl’s body. She is encouraged to take drugs that permanently lower her voice and coarsen her features, and ultimately to get a mastectomy and hysterectomy, at an age when she is mentally ill equipped to handle making these permanent decisions. Boys are encouraged to identify as girls, in an era rife with misandry. The boys are set on a path where absolutely no downside to changing gender is every disclosed. They are told that puberty blockers are reversible, when in fact they carry serious health risks, and can prevent the normal development of genitals and $exual drive. This can lead to having a micro peni$, which then does not contain enough tissue to perform a typical vaginoplasty. The latter in and of itself does not create an actual female reproductive tract. It’s an artificial body cavity, constructed out of skin that was never designed to be internal, subject to frequent infections, and which will require the use of dilators every single day forever, to keep it from sealing closed. It is a mutilation of people in an identity crisis. Doctors and psychiatrists must automatically affirm gender dysphoria, or risk losing their license to practice. Left wing states require schools to automatically affirm, and to hide the transition from the children’s parents.
At a young age, children believe what they see on TV is real. They believe everything an adult tells them. When Disney, the far left education system, and virtually every single television show and kids movie they watch, sends the message that changing genders is wonderful, exciting, and brave, more kids than ever before have become conditioned to believe they are transgender. This sets them on the path to irreversible puberty blockers, castration, sterilization, medical mutilation, and suicide.
As kids, most prefer to play with their friends of the same $ex. They have no romantic interest in the opposite $ex. At a young, impressionable age, they’re told they might be gay. There are grown men in drag who insist on not only gaining access to young children, often for performances that are $exualized. There are many videos of drag “family friendly” events in which they stimulate gay $ex, do lap dances, use stripper poles, and otherwise engage in behavior that would have gotten them arrested for unlawful conduct with a minor just a few years ago. Everyone’s born in the wrong body, uses a biologically inaccurate pronoun, or is gay/lesbian on most kids shows today. This is confusing to children, and appears to be a deliberate attempt to groom them to belong to the LGBTQ+ community or question their own identity. The rhetoric has evolved away from people are born gay or straight, to encouraging people to experiment.
In its rush to approve of LGBTQ+/transgenderism, Disney will now host its first Pride Night event, in which it turns its family park into a gay bar, expressly designed for casual hookups. This is a family amusement park, ultimately designed for children.
Parents have had enough, and we’re voting with our wallets.
Is “Disney’s Wild Ride” open yet at Disney World? Any age restrictions?
I don’t remember who said it, a well known comedian I think.
Best description of Disneyland ever is “Walmart with rides”
What would Walt say?
I took my kids to Disney decades ago. It didn’t meet the hype. I continue to say it’s over rated…and doesn’t produce. One time we went they wanted our finger prints….I was he’ll no! We got n some special gate and didn’t give finger prints. But the most magical moment of all….I was there about 8 months plus pregnant waddling around and my old man was with us. I came across a there person bench with one lady sitting there. Finally a rest from double strollers avoidance. My dad started to sit down….and the lady said “my husband is sitting there”….my dad looked around and said….’he must be ” invisible” and me and dad plop down! That’s my best magical kingdom memory!
Walt would cheer it on. He hated kids. He had a famous hot mic moment where he said ” That’ll hold the little bast***s”!
I read an article by an ex employee who said Walt had a complete set of child sized medieval torture devices, although he made no claim of their actually being used.
For decades, from the advent of the internet, there have been stories of the dark side of Disney, including child disappearances from the parks.
Disney has always been hugely weird.
Walt Disney was on the far right.
But since his death Disney has moved tot he far left.
Absolutely Disney should not be drawing attention to itself regarding perving children – as Disney has a very checkered past (and possibly present) of the sexual abuse of child actors.
I do not beleive that was linked to Walt. Regardless, it occurred – for decades – possibly through to the present.
John, one of the problems with Disney World is that when the company is involved in legal issues, the system is stacked against the outside people. Disney World was a Kingdom and that meant a lot of people were dealing with the Disney legal system, courts and juries. By getting rid of Reedy Creek the usual rights will be restored.
Almost all discussions of Disney and reedy Creek are done absent lots of FACTS that few if any of us know.
BUT there are general principle of law that make it highly likely that regardless of what we do not know DeSantis will prevail.
First Disney’s reedy creek arrangement is NOT a right that FL can unconstitutionally infringe on.
Absent some brain dead Judge the decision will NOT be Disney wins, Because DeSantis “retaliated” against Disney,
Bad intentions do not make legal acts illegal
Good intentions do not make illegal acts legal.
We care about intentions – motives, because they increase or decrease the probability that a crime was committed by the alleged perpitrator.
Motive is not an element of any crimes. Intent is of some crimes – But intent means does not mean there is a bad motive. It means you KNEW what you were doing was wrong. You Still are required to have a criminal Act.
Regardless, the claim that DeSantis was punishing Disney’s speech has no legal merit even if true, unless DeSantis infringed on an actual right.
The above is stuff we can KNOW now.
What is unknown is it is near certain there was some kind of contract between FL and Disney negotiate decades ago.
We need to know the terms of that contract – we do not.
But even there – Contracts have a life. Courts do not allow contracts in perpetuity. The longer a contract is the more power there is for the parties to breach without penalty towards the end of the contract.
Then there is the separate matter that contracts can renew or can even be self renewing.
But only for short duration. A contract MIGHT auto renew for a month, or a year or maybe even 5 years, but not for 20 years.
Next we do not know what the other terms of the contract were.
Finally no matter what the contract was FL can ultimately get whatever it wants through eminent domain.
But that Does actually have a problem – because eminent domain DOES implicate a constitutional right.
Anyway I can go one, but mostly this is pure specualtion about a contract we have not seen, but it highly unlikely to still be fully enforceable in favor of Disney.
We speculate, but ultimately many things are political. If Disney held popular opinion things would be more difficult for DeSantis, but Disney doesn’t have the clout in Florida. They are a California company.
Perpetuity: Frequently judges will eventually say, ‘enough is enough’ which might end it. In many instances money counts.
I think the stickiest thing for DeSantis is money issues regarding Disney debt and other things. But the State has the right to tax and fine so I think DeSantis will be fine. Disney will survive but with time money issues and competition will make large companies much less likely to ,pull a Disney;.
I would further note that while FL can take over Reedy Creak governance, they ARE going to have to be very careful.
They can not as an example create unusual zoning code, building codes etc as a means of punishing Disney.
Losing control of Reedy Creek will negatively impact Disney. But FL can not Treat Disney worse than other businesses with respect to codes.
That will infringe on rights and therefore be unconstitutional
“They can not as an example create unusual zoning code, building codes etc as a means of punishing Disney.”
I think that would be the same anywhere in Florida.
DeSantis does not want to treat Disney poorly. Disney World is an asset to the state, but so are competing companies. I should add our children are most important, and Disney stepped in the wrong direction.
In many cases government must be careful about businesses, – They can go elsewhere.
But there are not actually that many places that Disney can go. There is a reason Disney land is in CA and Disneyworld is in FL.
Tesla can move to TX, Disney World probably can not move.
Separately Disney world is a massively expensive asset. Disney can not easily walk away.
So FL and Disney are inextricably linked.
Disney can not walk away from FL, and FL is highly unlikely to want to actually harm Disney – as it is a significant part of the FL economy.
John Say,
But if Disney continues it decline (reading some of the comments for Wendy and Peter Pan, does not look good), and needs a bailout, will it be up to FL to do the bailing out?
Disney is not going to need a bailout.
But they have likely stunted their growth for possibly a decade.
They are down nearly 50% in Market Capitalization – they will recover – but it will take a while.
They also have to rebuild trust with their customers – that is going to take a while
And several movies that parents want to take their kids to.
John, Florida can survive pretty well without Disneyland, but Disney enterprises would suffer a significant blow. Even Disney can be replaced, though I see it surviving well in Florida.
OT: You see, everyone: Here are Disney’s future employees, having earned their education credentials the hard way.
https://twitter.com/FightHaven/status/1647997140445044753?s=20
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rocky-mount-teacher-beats-up-student-over-her-phone-but-her-backside-ends-up-taking-the-attention-video/ar-AA19Z3Xg?cvid=381bfce9465d4debdabf02bbabd28e3f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=22
I won’t link to this! But wasn’t there issue couple years ago they use overseas labor? They used their USA employees to train the overseas and on what visa to expect at disney?a? Wasn’t that the issue…..what visa? Well everyone goes that figured out….don’t we have a visa system? Aimed to benefit us? Yet silicon valley employees a lot of not steeped in American values people. On visas. And isn’t silicon valley responsible for deaths of americsns? And elections….off their hb2 visas?
don’t want to conspire…it is your own math! Can we see the stats? Will public health give us the stats? The fact is Baldwin county doesn’t have any actual stats to blame it on big media…no deaths. Indeed big media has the stats to say…you cut is off kids die! Like at seh s were the only school in the state to cut off social media…..had the suicideds. Stats matter! The super can second guess and rationalize all day long. But seh s is the only school with suicides! And the only school with tyrant yonder! But Jerry Spence never loses. I hope hed d fight for my kids friend mackala Reeves and Nathan jones! Some one needs to against suicidal yonder! Yonder needs sued. I’ll lay myself out there as a defendant and Jerry Spence never losses. Elmore county people in charge can suck it! Duck them! They are responsible for Reeves and nathan! The only reason either are dead is the current fuller isolated thdm! On purpose as part of his psychological mission! With yondet! He should be used into oblivion. With No immunity …and willbe!
Turley — your comment section is toxi bilge.
Ralph, you are free not to visit.
Thank you.
Or better yet . . . join the conversation. What is it about our comments you find so offensive Ralph?
Yes, what?
Read the replies I got to my first comment on this article.
Can’t find it.
Look at my first comment below, and the replies that are PURE ad hominem trash — attacking me personally instead of reponding to the content of my comment. No decent website would allow that kind of trash to transpire. And I wouldn’t even have to explain it to people who had any brains or integrity.
“the replies that are PURE ad hominem trash”
Then a mere 6 minutes later:
“Benson, you are a complete fraud. . . .”
That’s got to be a record for a total lack of self-awareness.
Benson, you are a complete fraud. You were posting your pithy BS back when I first started (then stopped) commenting at this site years ago, and you STILL post pithy BS as if you are a privileged installation at this garbage site. No doubt you ARE privileged — so much the sadder. It’s an example of the very-poor judgment with which this site is administered. No decent website would allow you to serve the function you serve here.
Reads like a violation of the civility code to me.
Meanwhile, for your daily dose of conservative hate …
“On secretly recorded audio first reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News, GOP McCurtain County, Okla. officials — including the sheriff — talk about hiring hitmen to assassinate local journalists and complain that Black people now have the right to not be lynched.”
audio: https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1648006079815483393
What a shame. No logical/legal or intelligent reply but instead resort to propaganda. You people are ALL the same and I pity you.
Apparently don’t find their exchange appalling. I pity *you*.
“Conservative hate…” is all you have to say? Why is forcing Disney to be treated the same as other corporations hateful? Only because the left didn’t think about it first. Or because it makes too much sense? I now totally despise the left. I have jettisoned all friends from my contact lists who support any leftist causes. I am hopeful there will be a wholesale reckoning in much the same fashion as Jonestown, Guyana.
A fan of mass death, are you?
Congratulations Anonymous you found your confirmation bias for the day. I guess when Jane Fonda talked of murdering Republicans you must have been all in on it because you never voiced an objection. I don’t pity you.
“This weekend, I contributed to an article for the New York Post …”
It cannot be overemphasized that the NY Post is an exceedingly seedy and reckless publication that will bend any rules of honesty and decency to peddle the Murdoch agenda via a bizarre combination of politics and bikini-tabloid trash. No writer contributing to that horrendous trash mag can escape without some of the stench rubbing off on him or her. The same applies to Fox “News” to a slightly lesser extent, but only SLIGHTLY lesser.
That’s not to say that the NYP or Fox are necessarily worse than the rest of the garbage media, but they are certainly no better.
Ralph,
That said, did you like the article?
No. I think Jeb DeSantis is a total fraud, purchased by Anti-Trumpers who have a mix of motives, and I think that his dispute with Disney is nonsense that was manufactured for the sole purpose of promoting Jeb as some kind of a giant-killer.
In short: I think that Jeb and the Beanstalk is a Disney-like fairy tale manufactured for semi-conscious and/or semi-sober adults — mostly delusional anti-Trump “republicans” — for the probable purpose of assuring that Joetard gets reelected, because trying to get Jeb DeSantis the republican nomination is NOT calculated to obtain a republican victory in 2024. Anybody that tells you otherwise is either delusional or lying.
Well, Ralphie, you just keep reading your WaPo and Grey Lady and stay misinformed.
I guess this site refuses to post the reply I gave you, so I’ll just recommend that you find an adult to explain to you what my comment says.
If you had an adult reply I could explain it to him. Keep trying though. Your reply comes across as a child’s tantrum then an intelligent response. But I know that’s how you people work. It’s emotions and feelings than facts and logic.
“you people” — LOL — who are the “you people” to whom you refer?
@Zircon
I had my suspicions but wasn’t sure at first; now I am going to say that yes, Ralph is a new troll. Understand that by ‘troll’ I do not mean one who disagrees, no; I mean one who uses that as a veil to spread personal invective/bad info/attempts at discrediting the site itself. One of his first posts was an attempt to discredit the Professor (you are free to go back and look, because in spite of what Ralph would have you believe, he is not being blocked, banned, or deleted). I interacted initially and very briefly, now I just ignore him. Troll.
Ralph: So, if you ran the world everything would be wine and roses, I guess, eh?
Boy, twist a pig’s ear…
“Boy, twist a pig’s ear…”
What does that mean? Is it the same as: “Make a pig’s ear?”
(Sincere questions. I looked up the expression, but couldn’t find an explanation.)
“163.3225 Public hearings.—
(1) Before entering into, amending, or revoking a development agreement, a local government shall conduct at least two public hearings. At the option of the governing body, one of the public hearings may be held by the local planning agency.
(2)(a) Notice of intent to consider a development agreement shall be advertised approximately 7 days before each public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation and readership in the county where the local government is located. Notice of intent to consider a development agreement shall also be mailed to all affected property owners before the first public hearing. The day, time, and place at which the second public hearing will be held shall be announced at the first public hearing.
(b) The notice shall specify the location of the land subject to the development agreement, the development uses proposed on the property, the proposed population densities, and the proposed building intensities and height and shall specify a place where a copy of the proposed agreement can be obtained.”
A failure to meet any one of the requirements set forth in 163.3225 could invalidate Disney’s actions. Simply saying to NPR that they complied with the law isn’t enough. They must document that they did. I am not sure that they can. The action looks rushed.
The Disney structure appeared to have the status of a municipality, sort of, but not a county or Indian Reservation. A state legislature can’t alter the nature of an Indian Reservation and can only tamper with counties with great difficulty. But municipalities, if I remember correctly, are ultimately creatures of the legislature and are far more vulnerable to legislative action than counties are, even to the extent of possible abolition. I am not sure Florida has picked up its biggest club yet.
What needs to happen here is very simple.
DeSantis and Iger need to get together and talk about this. No cameras no tweets. Just stop the craziness and look at what’s best for Florida and what’s best for Disney.
I blame Chapek and DeSantis for this escalating out of control. I won’t recommend a beer summit. We need sober individuals to talk.
“It added what is called a royal clause, used in England since 1692. It specified this “Declaration shall continue in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this declaration.”
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Ah a reprise of the Dance of the Rule Against Purple Stupidies … er Perpetutities .. as we loved to quip in law school. (It’s from the olde English “Duke of Norfolk’s Case” (hence the purple reference) and boy was the grand Duke stupid).
Seems it’s back in style and just as stupid and perpetual but now with a new twist of being muroidal.
Viva la Souris Stupide!
If Disney had only conveyed the District to the Mouse in fee tail, they’d be set.
Touché
“Picking fights with people with general tax authority is rarely a winning strategy for a company.”
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The power to tax is undoutedly the power to destroy as John Marshall reminds everyone who has the good sense to read McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316 (1819). Wokesters don’t do that. They are supergeniuses, ya know! Why read? The world started the day they walked onto its grand stage and they are shocked … shocked… that something before their time is really relevant to them. Oh, the ever-giving blessings of that beast known as Reality – it’s mean, nasty and (this will make wokesters ecstatic) discriminates against no man, woman or child.
Viva la Souris Stupide!
Article 1, Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general (i.e. all, the whole) Welfare of the United States;…
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Debt, Defense, Infrastructure
That’s All, Folks!
I’m not for state interference in companies but the rules have to be the same and apply to all. No company should receive a tax break for relocating or moving into a state. As much as I hate to admit it, I agreed with AOC stopping Amazon from getting an unfair advantage to build in NYC. To me, this should be a roll not for the governors, but the feds. The feds should force the states to enforce the rules they put in place. No special breaks for anyone. This would have two benefits. One, mom and pop stores would not have to shoulder the tax burden for Walmart to come in and take them out and two, it would expose the tax policies of the state to the residents of that state. Politicians would then have to answer for why no one wants to do business in their state.
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are.
Mother Of Homicide Victim Excoriates Dan Goldman,
“Don’t insult my intelligence… This is why I walked away from the plantation of the Democratic Party.”
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JT is defending DeSantis’s attack on a private business because he does not like their politics.
Why should Disney or any company have special privilege over other companies? You are only defending them because they support talking sex to children.
Since I actually read the article rather than emoting based on a headline, I know that JT is castigating Disney for a monumentally stupid legal approach to legal problems that started when they decided to weigh in on a political issue that had nothing to do with their business. You, on the other hand, are a typical prog: incapable of separating politics from anything.
JT is promoting the leftist position that companies shouldn’t be allowed to write their own rules and receive corporate welfare
WHAT HAPPENED TO “EL PRESIDENTITO DE CUBA NORTE?”
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Ronald Dion “Fidel Castro” DeSantis, the anti-republican, got the cart before the horse.
Fidelito “El Presidentito De Cuba Norte” DeSantis violated the 11th Commandment and attacked Real President Donald J. Trump rather than support the former republican President and current republican presidential candidate.
Oh, perhaps “El Presidente De Cuba Norte” didn’t know Real President Donald J. Trump was running, and that the entire American election apparatus was corrupted against Trump and republicans, including El Presidentito DeSantis.
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“DeSantis backers launch first TV ad attacking Trump in 2024 White House race”
WASHINGTON, April 16 – A fundraising group supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s potential run for U.S. president on Sunday launched its first attacks on leading rival Donald Trump, questioning the former president’s allegiance to his fellow Republicans.
“Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis,” the ad stated. “What happened to Donald Trump?”
– Reuters
Anyone who would compare Ron DeSantis to Fidel Castro, because he had the temerity to actually criticize (gasp!) the Orange Messiah, is beyond partisan, or even mentally ill. You must be on the payroll, George. Maybe if DeSantis owned slaves you’d like him better.