Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
DeSantis slammed a special Disney carveout. His staff helped write it.
The governor has declared that the days of Florida leaders giving Disney preferential treatment are over.
"Gov. Ron DeSantis continued escalating his battle against The Walt Disney Co. this week, calling for a new era in Florida where the company no longer gets to wield its mighty influence and “dictate policy” to state leaders. He singled out a special carveout that legislators approved for Disney in a 2021 bill that aimed to crack down on conservatives having their accounts banned by “Big Tech” social media companies. The bill was a DeSantis priority, but has since been blocked in court. That’s in part because the Republican bill sponsors added a last-minute amendment exempting companies that own theme parks.
“At the eleventh hour when the Legislature was doing this, Disney got them to put in a carveout for theme parks,” DeSantis said Thursday during a news conference. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘This is ridiculous.’ Honestly, it was embarrassing,” he added, saying he considered vetoing the legislation because of the carveout. But DeSantis’ own staff helped write it. Emails between staff working for the governor’s office and the House Commerce Committee show that DeSantis’ legislative affairs director, Stephanie Kopelousos, was in communication with Disney to propose bill language written by the company. The emails were first reported by the Seeking Rents newsletter, which shared them with the Tampa Bay Times."
Now, to anyone who isn't in a cult; they would see this as a typical politician saying one thing when the cameras are on and actually DOING A TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING when the cameras are off....but...to the cult....they will find a way to give DeSantis a pass for being full of shit as long as they believe he hates the same people they hate.....gays...trannies....those others....and as long as any Conservative politician can campaign on their manufactured culture war BS; they won't ever have to pass a single bill that structurally improves the lives of their constituency....sure, I still can't afford to refill my wife's insulin prescription; but at least we cracked down on those trannies!! -- that DeSantis is really looking out for us!!
This goofy ass culture war BS has these so-called "small government" -- "let the free markets decide" -- "corporations are people" conservatives now demanding governments punish corporations; not for price gouging, not for shady business practices, not for hiring illegal workers, no -- they want governments to punish corporations for not sharing in their passion to punish the fags or whatever minority group they are currently the most outraged about.
