Handling Disney all wrong

 I do not like Disney. I have not been to Disney since my son was a very small child and he will be 44 in June. I have never made any excuses about why I don't like Disney: what they have been allowed to do to the state of Florida; how Walt Disney sold his idea to the Florida legislature and the impact this one company has had on the destruction of our state. 

I have written about the book Florida's own Carl Hiaasen wrote about this travesty, "Team Rodent" and no one really cared. They have their own little dictatorship going and the state and the people who make so much money off the service people never raised an eyebrow. They developed land which should have been left wild, demolished beautiful rolling orange groves to have manicured lawns full of bushes trimmed to look like Disney characters and agreed to pay for roads and infrastructure as long as they were allowed to go about their business. They provided low paying jobs, most entry level, attracted other business who do the same and everyone loved them, including all the politicians. Trying to hold Disney accountable was certain death to political aspirations. 

Now here comes big business, let them eat cake, Ron Desantis and his minions in the Florida legislature who believe selling the soul of Florida and riling up his voting block about emotional issues to keep everything in the state influx, has decided to speak out against The Mouse. They don't agree with the new "Don't Say Gay" policy and asked him to not sign the bill. He is using his political office to punish a private business for disagreeing with his political policies. Shades of destroying our Constitution. 

Why do his cronies agree? Ever seen the people who are going to end of paying all this bill? Have you seen the demographics of Orange County? With Florida in the midst of not only a rent/mortgage crisis, we also have homeowner's insurance issues. This  thanks to another policy which the governor has allowed to happen and that gives the insurance companies even more power over what they charge people. 

Do I believe we should begin the process of taking some of Disney's power away? Absolutely. Do I think the governor has the right to punish a business for disagreeing with him? Absolutely not. Let's go about this the right way. Not the way of a dictator.