After stripping Walt Disney World of the Reedy Creek Improvement District and replacing it with the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the new Board he appointed realized that Disney had essentially stripped the new Board of any power, leaving both of them a little embarrassed. As a way of getting back at Disney, Governor DeSantis ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had already stripped Disney World of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the self-governing District that had been in place since the theme park opened. He wanted other ways to punish the Walt Disney Company for speaking out against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known by its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But it ...