Disney’s latest attempt to prevent the state government from regulating Walt Disney World seems to be failing. But perhaps Disney news sites are doing even worse.
Maybe the crazies at some of these other sites just don’t have a grasp on reality.
Our good friends over at WDWNT (who infamously blocked me on Twitter for having the audacity to say Twitter wasn’t shutting down a few months ago) are covering the latest breaking news out of DeSantis Versus Reedy Creek. Here’s what they have:
The Board of Supervisors of the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, which takes over Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, is planning a resolution for “Superior Authority” over the district.
Resolution No. 639 will be introduced at the next meeting, which was postponed to April 19. It intends to add a new section to the RCID Land Development Regulations: section 7-20.13. This would ensure the new board has authority over the “reviewing, processing, evaluating, commenting on and approving, approving with conditions or denying applications for development orders throughout the District, including within the jurisdictional limits of City of Lake Buena Vista and the City of Bay Lake.”
Meanwhile, the folks behind Blog Mickey have gone just straight into political propaganda:
The next chapter of the battle between Disney World and the DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (“the District”) Board of Supervisors is unfolding. According to documents reviewed by BlogMickey.com, the Board of Supervisors is planning their next power grab as they look to do the bidding of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to “retaliate” against The Walt Disney Company for opposing the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation last summer.
Listen, I get that pixie dust is one heck of a drug (thanks La Reina), and I get that there’s been some sort of crazy quasi-religious Disney fanaticism going on out there. But when the RCID board attempted at the last minute to grant Disney government powers via Florida statutes which govern home owners’ associations… essentially attempting to declare Disney World a forty-square mile covenant-controlled HoA… I joined some videos and wrote some articles where I laughed about it. This was never, ever, ever going to work. It is the craziest Hail Mary attempt by Disney, which always — in my estimation — an attempt to tie things up in courts with unprecedented wackiness in the desperate hopes that Ron DeSantis would eventually leave Florida and they could cajole the next governor to leave them alone.
Clearly that’s not working. And honestly, it’s time for the other websites to start reporting the news accurately or let us just take your readers (which will happen anyway).
Reedy Creek Improvement District isn’t Disney and never was (even though Disney pulled decades of tricks to fully control it). It was a government. The State of Florida dissolved it. The RCID attempted to grant a corporation government powers through crazy, novel means. The new special district that controls Disney World is voting to grant itself the powers that governments have, meaning that a corporation doesn’t usurp government. This is as easy as it gets in understanding. Nobody thinks Wal-Mart gets to tell the government what to do and Disney doesn’t get to do the same. This is middle school government class, people. It may be elementary school.
Anyway, there’s not much to see here. Disney attempted a bizarro legal theory and it looks to already be collapsing. I’m sure we’ll do the court attempts and have fun with that hoopla, but ultimately governments have power to regulate, not corporations. Disney will lose and the crazy pixie dust high dosage huffing bloggers and vloggers out there will blow a ton of credibility.
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BlogMickey doesn’t know how government works. Disney never had the power. The district did. So it grants itself its power back. How hard is that?
Remember when the left HATED the RCID for being a corporate giveaway that allowed Disney to dodge regulations and vote themselves whatever they wanted? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Time will tell. Does Disney sue Desants and the state? Or vice versa?
Will it even get that far?
The Disney Dish Podcast seems to think Reedy Creek saddled the new board with an unbreakable contract, and the Florida government made a mistake by not attending that meeting. They were basking in Disney’s cleverness, and how the courts won’t void this contract. Who to believe?
See who turns out to be right at the end of the process. Then listen to that person in the future.
Personally, I think the courts will see through this subterfuge, like someone buying a truck with credit cards and declaring bankruptcy soon afterwards. But I’m not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
The Pixie Dust junkies think DeSantis is punishing Disney, when he and the legislature is just giving them the same treatment as everyone else. Remember, Disney broke the original deal. The government just looked the other way for 50 plus years.