Florida Sen. Rubio Worried Disney vs. DeSantis Conflict Could Scare off Business

Do you think businesses will reconsider operating in Florida?

  • 40.4k
    jimK
    Voted Oppose
    03/02/2023

    SuperCalifragilisticExpialiFascist.

  • 63
    Sabrina
    03/02/2023

    This is government overreach. This is big government at its worst. He is trying to regulate free speech and creativity. 

  • 5,736
    M
    Voted Support
    03/02/2023

    Beware the mouse's wrath. 

  • 28.4k
    Brian
    Voted Oppose
    03/02/2023

    Remember when Republicans were pro-business and would do everything to reduce the regulatory and tax burden on corporations?

    Well, I guess that only lasted so far as companies keeping their mouths shut and staying out of politics other than donations.
    This is fascism, and it's anti-business. 

    I don't think Disney will move out of Florida, but they can reduce headcount and change who they donate to. And they can stand stronger against fascists like DeSantis. 

    I hope they do.

  • 65.5k
    LeslieG
    03/30/2023

    Disney sidesteps DeSantis 1 day before DeSantis's appointed board members take over by transferring all powers from Reedy Developnent board to Disney, and leaving only the responsibility of roads & infrastructure to DeSantis run Reedy Develoomeny board. 

    In addition Reedy Decelopment Board can't use Disney characters or the Disney name, and the minimum wage was increased to $18/hr for 45,000 Disney workers which as the major employer forced the states hand in the minimum wage.

    Looks like the mouse 🐭 will have the last word!

    "Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to take over Walt Disney World's governing board in Florida may have backfired due to a prior obscure agreement that new governor-appointed board members argue stripped them of their power."

    "According to the agreement text, Disney was given a slew of powers including development rights for the next thirty years, or 2053, and the authority to approve any design improvements."

    "This essentially makes Disney the government," board member Ron Peri said during a meeting on Wednesday.  "This board loses, for practical purposes, the majority of its ability to do anything beyond maintain the roads and maintain basic infrastructure."

    "The 151-page Florida agreement also states that no "fanciful characters" owned by Disney, including Mickey Mouse, can be used by the board. The use of the name Disney is also banned."

    "Disney World service workers on Wednesday were voting on whether to accept a union contract offer that would raise the starting minimum wage to $18 an hour by the end of the year."

    https://www.npr.org/2023/03/29/1166925827/disney-world-board-desantis-power-florida

    https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-board-overseeing-disney-district-may-be-powerless-2023-3?amp

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65120369.amp

  • 4,320
    DaveS
    Voted Support
    03/02/2023

    Corporations just like individuals, voicing their opinion, can be a target of political pressure of a want-a-be dictatorship, whether you are right or not. It is dangerous to allow retaliation by government or corporations.

  • 2,076
    Surender
    Voted Support
    05/02/2023

    A record-breaking blob of smelly seaweed is arriving in Florida 

    This blob dwarfs the stink exuded by swamp inhabitants desantis and trump 

    please don't let them pollute the rest of the country ! 

  • 46
    Syliva
    Voted Support
    05/01/2023

    Disney great and I support them all the way too 🤗

  • 37
    Renee
    Voted Oppose
    05/01/2023

    I think that businesses shouldn't be political anyway!!!! So, if that is what you are about, hit the pike.

  • 16.9k
    Frank_001
    Voted Support
    04/30/2023

    Florida Sen. Rubio Worried Disney vs. DeSantis Conflict Could Scare off Business
    Do you think businesses will reconsider operating in Florida?

    Causes says Oppose or Support.

    I strongly oppose DeSantis' Vindictive and Unconstitutional Policies. 

    I think that business that can be negatively impacted by DeSantis' Fascist Policies will put doing business in a Corrupt, Racist &Fascist regime on hold.

    Some fun "facts"

    These are the important businesses in Florida:

    Agriculture, tourism, industry, construction, international banking, biomedical and life sciences, healthcare research, simulation training, aerospace and defense, and commercial space travel

    Sales taxes make up around 80% of the general revenue collected by the state of Florida.–Aug 18, 2022

     

     

     

  • 1,831
    Martha
    Voted Support
    04/30/2023

    I believe that businesses that have a socil conscience will think twice before locating in FL.  Those businesses that are only concerned with the bottom line won't give a rat's ass.  Furthermore, many national conferences from organizations that are concerned about social justice will not likely hold their meetings in FL, but the far right extremeist groups will be happy to hold their meetings in such a repressive state.

  • 1,655
    Lesley
    Voted Support
    04/29/2023

    Desantis is a bigot and a tool. And a total embarrassment. 

  • 61
    Jerry
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    Why would DeSantis damage his own states economy?

  • 32
    Mike
    Voted Support
    04/27/2023

    DeSantis wants to be a dictator. Newsflash: Disney has every right to disagree with his decision. If he can't handle criticism from Disney; how does her expect himself to stand up to the criticism of Trump???

  • 41
    Robin
    Voted Support
    04/27/2023

    I hope that Disney squashes this racist, homophobic, bigot once and for all. Our country will be better for it.

  • 35
    Terri
    Voted Support
    04/27/2023

    Free speech under our constitution!

  • 4,320
    DaveS
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    So much for free market, you got government overreach in Florida and government control and abuse of power!

  • 32
    Yeni
    Voted Support
    04/27/2023

    Desantis is destroying Disney without a reason. Please stop him.

  • 37
    Mitchell
    04/27/2023

    GAY GAY GAY.  Say it Loud, say it PROUD.  Desk this is a Fascist thug bent on terroring people.  He is a little man who was thwarted in his retaliation by Disney.  Good for Disney !   The people of Glorida did NOT elect Desantis to go after the state's largest single employer.  Shame on Desantis.

  • 39
    June
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    DeSantis is a Complete IMBECILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 68
    Dawn
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    Desantis is a fascist 

  • 31.3k
    Andy
    04/28/2023

    DeSuckass in Israel vs. cruz in Cancun?

    What you think Teddy!

  • 1,335
    George
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    Need to stop DeSantis BS!

  • 2,450
    John
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    Ron DeSantis is state has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the country meanwhile the leading causes of death of your children in this nation is gunshot wounds thanks to people like Ron DeSantis. Really is nothing more than a murderer he should share a jail cell with Oscar Solos The only thing they don't have in common is it o Solis kills adults and Ron DeSantis kills children.

  • 586
    Robert
    Voted Support
    04/28/2023

    DeSantis appears to have gotten the idea that he is an unchallengeable Authoritarian and Autocrat, and it also appears that Disney has decided to respond to DeSantis's delusions of grandeur. Self-aggrandizing wannabe potentates have no place in any part of the government of the United States or any states that fall under the "United" label.
    Here in Nevada, we have a Governor who is attempting to defund public schools by allowing private schools to capture taxpayer money that is intended for our public schools. And a Lt. Governor who wants to eliminate carpool lanes on our freeways. Our RTC busses, taxis, carpoolers, and rideshare drivers count on these lanes to expediently transport Las Vegans to work, business appointments, and airline flights. Neither of these proposals are attractive to me.  

  • 220
    Nancy
    Voted Support
    04/27/2023

    I strongly support Disney's lawsuit against DeSantis because what he did was a knee-jerk reaction meant to be a call-out to all Maga extremists that DeSantis is their guy. It had nothing to do with helping Floridians secure meaningful employment with dignity, or housing, or education. It's all about DeSantis and nothing for his constiutents. he doesn't want to govern and be a public servant, he wants power.