Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signaled support for stripping Disney of its 55-year-old special status that allows the entertainment company to operate as an independent government around its Orlando-area theme park
It's the latest fallout in the feud between DeSantis, a Republican widely seen as a potential 2024 presidential contender, and Disney , Florida's largest private employer, over a measure that bans schools from teaching young children about sexual orientation or gender identity.After DeSantis signed the bill into law earlier Monday, the Walt Disney Company wrote in a statement that its"goal" was to get the law repealed or defeated in the courts.
And so the question is, why would you want to have special privileges in the law at all? And I don't think that that we should."Read MoreDeSantis' remarks follow a revelation that some Republican state lawmakers are considering repealing a 1967 state law that established the Reedy Creek Improvement District, giving Disney the power to establish its own government in central Florida.
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