{"id":119723,"date":"2023-05-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119723"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:01:12","slug":"disney-sues-ron-desantis-over-political-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119723","title":{"rendered":"Disney Sues Ron DeSantis Over Political Retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119723\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=119723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-119724 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/67d886ef32de3ada066c35036ede3bd4-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/67d886ef32de3ada066c35036ede3bd4-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/67d886ef32de3ada066c35036ede3bd4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Nikki Slusher <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Governor Ron DeSantis has entered the find out stage when it comes to f-ing with the mouse. Disney has filed a lawsuit against the rumored 2024 Republican presidential candidate claiming he has used his political power to retaliate against the company for disagreeing with his \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d legislation, which is a violation of their First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney suit cites that Governor DeSantis has *allegedly* used political retaliation against them for coming out against Florida\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill \u2014 one of the many outrageous legislative initiatives the state\u2019s Republican supermajority legislature has passed this session. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, like most authoritarian style leaders, DeSantis can\u2019t seem to stop while he\u2019s ahead. In response to Disney\u2019s lawsuit, the oversight board full of MoRon\u2019s loyalists has decided to file a countersuit against the mouse in state court. The board claims that Disney forced the old board to enact 11th hour deals to tie the hands of the new board, retaining the multibillion dollar corporation\u2019s authority status in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>We already know Meatball Ron\u2019s antics were clearly targeting Disney solely for their stance against his \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill. Yet Disney took it a step further to prove so by including parts of DeSantis\u2019s own book. Who would\u2019ve thought that all his braggadocious rants would end up hurting him?<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Disney is citing the Governor\u2019s recently published memoir \u201cThe Courage To Be Free\u201d as evidence that his motives were purely based on retaliating on their differences in beliefs. Besides the fact that throughout the memoir DeSantis is regularly flaunting the idea of political retaliation campaign that he thought of himself against Disney. I guess he and Trump have the same type of very big brains.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s lawsuit goes as far as citing pages from the book. One part where DeSantis pridefully reflects on his attack against the state\u2019s largest employer states, \u201cNobody saw it coming, and Disney did not have enough time to put its army of high-powered lobbyists to work to try to derail the bill\u2026Disney had clearly crossed a line in its support of indoctrinating very young schoolchildren in woke gender identity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, after the company\u2019s CEO called Governor DeSantis in March of 2022 raising concerns about the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill, DeSantis recounted in his book on thinking that &#8220;it was a mistake for Disney to get involved&#8221; and telling Disney&#8217;s then-CEO, \u2018You shouldn&#8217;t get involved\u2026it&#8217;s not going to work out well for you.\u201dfollowing on March 10th, Governor DeSantis&#8217;s campaign sent an email accusing &#8220;Woke Disney&#8221; of \u201cechoing Democrat propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s Republican House sponsor Rep. Randy Fine, a close DeSantis ally, also made statements confirming Disney was the sole target of the legislation. In a tweet, Rep. Fine said &#8220;Disney is a guest in Florida. Today we remind them. @GovDeSantis just<br \/>\nexpanded the Special Session so I could file HB3C which eliminates Reedy Creek<br \/>\nImprovement District, a 50 yr-old special statute that makes Disney to [sic] exempt<br \/>\nfrom laws faced by regular Floridians.\u201d That same day he told the Florida House State<br \/>\nAffairs Committee: &#8220;You kick the hornet&#8217;s nest, things come up. And I will say<br \/>\nthis: You got me on one thing, this bill does target one company. It targets The<br \/>\nWalt Disney Company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the many examples Disney\u2019s legal sharks cited in their complaint. Even with the board\u2019s countersuit it\u2019s likely their case will hold up in court. Disney is playing chess while DeSantis is playing tic-tac-toe. It\u2019s not going to end well for the meatball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nikki Slusher Florida\u2019s Governor Ron DeSantis has entered the find out stage when it comes to f-ing with the mouse. Disney has filed a lawsuit against the rumored 2024 Republican presidential candidate claiming he has used his political power to retaliate against the company for disagreeing with his \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d legislation, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22247,18030],"tags":[30870],"class_list":["post-119723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-columns","category-world-news","tag-disney-sues-ron-desantis-over-political-retaliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119723"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}