“We’re not going to have a corporation controlling its own government,” DeSantis said. “So the state’s going to have a board to run it. So Disney will not have self-governing status anymore.”
While the company’s new status isn’t set to take full effect until June of this year, DeSantis’ call for a special session is intended to finalize the finer points of the transition. The governorthe session will take place “in a week or two,” and will cover “a whole bunch of different things that need to be taken care of … including making sure that Disney doesn’t have self-governing status anymore.
The governor, aided by right-wing reactionaries like Tucker Carlson, has pushed unfounded claims that Disney supports child abuse and sexual exploitation as a means to justify his actions against the company. The governor of “sexualizing kindergarteners” and being in the pocket of communist China last March, at the height of his dispute with the company.
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