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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalates Disney criticism

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalates Disney criticism

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalates Disney criticism

Yahoo Finance’s Allie Canal joins the Live show to discuss the latest surrounding Disney’s battle against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the outlook for Disney’s expected job cuts.

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Thu, April 20, 2023, 11:31 PM GMT+9

Yahoo Finance’s Allie Canal joins the Live show to discuss the latest surrounding Disney’s battle against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the outlook for Disney’s expected job cuts.

Video Transcript

- The battle of Disney versus Ron DeSantis escalating as the Florida governor continues to criticize the media giant's parks and properties. Yahoo Finance's Allie Canal has the latest on Disney versus DeSantis. All right, what do we know now?

ALLIE CANAL: Well, it seems like this battle is never ending, right? And DeSantis, he's been on a tour promoting his book. And he's basically using that to attack Disney every chance he gets. Especially after Disney outmaneuvered the governor with his hand-selected Oversight Board, basically passing last-minute legislation that essentially renders this new board powerless. So that created a whole new set of problems.

But on Wednesday, that board did make a move to try to regain power by eliminating a planning agency and transferring the responsibility for all future planning over to the board. On top of that, this move comes just two days after DeSantis threatened to develop land near Disney. Some ideas he floated was a state park or a state prison. That created quite a few headlines there.

So it's been this back-and-forth drama for quite some time, all stemming over Disney's unfavorable response to the Parental Rights and Education Act, otherwise known as the Don't Say Gay bill, which bans education of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to third grade. Bob Iger has defended the company's actions, calling DeSantis policies antibusiness and anti-Florida. So Disney clearly not backing down on this. In fact, last night the company announced that it will break ground next year on a planned affordable housing development just a few miles away from the Magic Kingdom.

And the timing of this was interesting because DeSantis and the board had just criticized Disney for the lack of affordable housing for its 75,000 employees. That is set to be completed in 2026. But before then, I'm sure we're still-- the drama is going to continue.

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