The board in charge of the Florida park sabotaged his hostile takeover.
the board approved a measure to strip itself of its broad authority and to give Disney “prior review and comment” on any changes in order to “ensure consistency with the overall design and theming” of the park. The board also is not allowed to use Disney’s name or trademarks, including “fanciful characters such as Mickey Mouse.”incoming board member Brian Aungst Jr. after a meeting on Wednesday in which the news was made public.
It was a clever act of sabotage, made even more so by a so-called royal-lives clause. To get around a contract that bans rules that are in effect in perpetuity, the outgoing board made it so Disney would retain its new powers “until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III.” Only when the Mountbatten-Windsor family ends would Disney lose its special-tax privileges.
DeSantis has taken up Disney’s “woke ideology” as a major front in the culture war he is riding to a likely presidential bid, so it’s unlikely that he’s going to let some local apparatchiks win with such an obscure clause. Already, a spokesperson for the governor
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