Disney sues DeSantis

Posted by $ TomB666 1 year ago to History
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Disney company claims that Gov. DeSantis is "Violating its Constitutional Rights". I must have been asleep when that part of the constitution was taught about companies having rights. All I learned about was our individual rights.


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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year ago
    I've been loosely following this story, that is if something comes up on it I pay attention; I'm not deliberately seeking the details. My basic understanding is a long time ago the Florida government wanted Disney to build an enterprise within the state to create jobs and generate revenue and part of that was a loose agreement that "government will stay out of Disney's business if Disney stayed out of elected government policy business". Recently Disney violated that agreement and here we are...
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    The Disneys got a very broad reaching deal back in the 1960s. Just about the only thing that could be inspected were elevators.
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  • Posted by $ 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks. Not being from Florida I had no idea its constitution would give constitutional property rights to corporations.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 1 year ago
    As much as I like DeSantis, Disney is actually correct in that DeSantis is violating its FLORIDA Constitutional property rights, as well as an agreement made between a former governor and Walt & Roy Disney.
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 year ago
    as no other company has the special "rights" disney has, they really need a woke "judge" on their side
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