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Fla Dem

(23,887 posts)
Fri May 12, 2023, 07:50 PM May 2023

Ron DeSantis is a deranged megalomaniac. He will be more dangerous than Trump if elected.

Ron DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida to shut down Disney World's monorail
Story by LGBTQNation • 4h ago

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed S.B. 1250, a general transportation bill that subjects Disney World’s iconic monorail to inspections and possible shutdowns. The newly signed law is just the latest move that the DeSantis administration has made against Disney over the media corporation’s opposition to the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law. The bill allows state officials to inspect and shut down the company’s monorail and “fixed-guideway transportation systems… to ensure safety and welfare” for passengers and inspectors.

While the law doesn’t specifically mention Disney, its provisions only apply to fixed-guideway transportation systems “located within an independent special district created by local act which have boundaries within two contiguous counties.” Only Disney’s monorail and its newly-constructed Disney Skyliner gondola tram fit the bill’s description (https://thehill.com/homenews/3970924-changes-to-florida-transportation-bill-could-target-disneys-monorail-system/).

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This week, Disney CEO Bob Iger lashed out at the Florida government’s vendetta against the company. Disney, Iger said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, paid over $1.1 billion in local and state taxes last year and is “the largest taxpayer in Central Florida.” He said the company was planning to invest $17 billion in Florida over the next 10 years, “which is what the state should want us to do.”

“One question,” Iger asked during the call. “Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people, and pay more taxes — or not? We’ve built a business that employs, as we’ve said before, over 75,000 people and attracts tens of millions of people to the state.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/ron-desantis-signs-bill-allowing-florida-to-shut-down-disney-world-s-monorail/ar-AA1b7fPZ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=W046&cvid=db721fec65404664a21c7c636c5dc83a&ei=17
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Ron DeSantis is a deranged megalomaniac. He will be more dangerous than Trump if elected. (Original Post) Fla Dem May 2023 OP
There's a good reason people of certain undesirable character traits join the GOP... Birds of a Karadeniz May 2023 #1
I agree with your first sentence, Progressive dog May 2023 #2
Disney will still be there when DeSantis is long gone. sellitman May 2023 #4
Yes, we're at the part of the movie where the inmates take over the asylum. Joinfortmill May 2023 #3

Karadeniz

(22,607 posts)
1. There's a good reason people of certain undesirable character traits join the GOP... Birds of a
Fri May 12, 2023, 07:59 PM
May 2023

feather!

sellitman

(11,611 posts)
4. Disney will still be there when DeSantis is long gone.
Sat May 13, 2023, 12:24 PM
May 2023

Lets just hope he never gets elected to Washington.

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