Bob Iger, Disney CEO, on Ron DeSantis attacks
on the company in light of their opposition to his Don’t Say Gay bills:
“We love the state of Florida. We respect and appreciate
what the state has done for us, but it’s been a two-way street. A company has a
right to freedom of speech just like an individual does, and DeSantis
retaliates against us—in effect to punish a company for exercising its
constitutional right. And that seems really wrong to me. Our point on this is
that any action that thwarts those efforts [Walt Disney Co. plans to invest
$17 billion in Walt Disney World over the next 10 years and create 13,000 new
jobs] simply to retaliate for a position the company took, sounds not just
anti-business, but it sounds anti-Florida, and I’ll just leave it at that.”
Will Floridians ever
wake up and see the damage DeSantis is doing to their state; nearly 90% of high
school graduates headed off to college are choosing to so so out of state;
13,000 jobs on the line if DeSantis keeps up his vendetta; and the largest
number of COVID deaths of any state in the country.
Oh, and his choice to attack history classes and transgender
Americans and banning books.
Seriously, Florida, is this what you want?
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