Those decisions would more be related to the Districts bond debt, land use, regulations for emergency services provided to the Disney parks, etc. The turmoil led to the recent resignation of the countys well-respected elections director, Lisa Marra, who said she was disparaged and harassed as she refused to comply with the efforts. What's been said: "The corporate kingdom finally comes to an end," DeSantis said at a news conference on Monday. Board members were previously named through entities controlled by Disney. It's a tall order, but Ladapo is prepared to do whatever it takes. 0000004615 00000 n Which is why every single effort by Democrats to engage Republicans on comprehensive immigration reform runs into a brick wall: the GOP wants things just as they are. So its not me singlehandedly making these decisions, Colwell said. What's more, the government worked to educate doctors about their new responsibilities. All employees earn minimum wage or higher. COVID vaccines came with much stricter VAERS reporting requirements than other adult vaccines. Anyone can report that they experienced any symptoms after receiving a vaccine. What the special districts likely overhaul will mean for Disney and people who travel to Walt Disney World. Privacy Policy | For corrections contact corrections@rawstory.com, for support contact support@rawstory.com. Mr. Helliwell advised them on how to lobby Florida lawmakers to establish a special benefits district, with two small towns incorporated within ittoday known as Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista. hb```b``e @1VPu~3J 90v1lfdP W4_Js5ovX$kJt#iVssE,HQK`[&Nd4k ^sJz:8Vu 3f?o q_E ` KhxT&UI5!lP@8 The supervisors moved forward despite a warning from the attorney generals office they received on Monday night, in which the solicitor general wrote that he had serious concerns about the legality of the drafted agreement. According to WESH, DeSantis shared, We had a little bit of a tussle last year over school legislationIf youre going that way as a corporation, those are not the values we want to promote in the state of Florida. He also discussed Disney being treated differently than other companies, and shared, we believed being joined at the hip with this one California-based company was not sustainable.. A. But critics have voiced fears that the arrangement will make Disney beholden to DeSantis and much less likely to feel able to speak out against his policies. The end of Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District has finally arrived.. EPCOT. The coming months will be critical to DeSantis as he builds his profile out beyond Florida. Its way past time for our media to call out Republican exploitation and demagoguery of this issue so we can finally and comprehensively reform our immigration laws. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. pic.twitter.com/st0OEDeBaA, Anika Hope (@AnikaHopeTV) February 27, 2023. Healthcare providers are required to report some adverse events, but compliance has historically been spotty. Many had suggested that the bill dissolving the RCID that was passed last year was an act of retaliation against Disneys comments against Floridas Parental Rights in Education bill (what critics called Dont Say Gay) and DeSantis seemed to touch on that during the event. DeSantis has also thrown his weight behind school board candidates in an effort to appoint officials who are friendlier to his administration and more broadly enacted policies aimed at eradicating diversity efforts and so-called wokeness from school curriculums. Another Cochise resident, Bob McCormick, said that Stevens is qualified for the job and combining the departments will be cost effective. If you are aware of legal authority for the draft Agreement, please promptly provide it to us, Solicitor General Joshua Bendor wrote. Walt Disney dubbed one of Disney World's attractions the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT), but the name might better describe Disney's design for private government. 0000040481 00000 n Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill to revoke Disney World's self-governing status within the 39-square-mile area known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID). In both cases, it was my employers who were most worried about my successfully getting the work permits and did most of the work to make it happen. We're ranking bars and lounges in Disney Springs. Because there was so much demand for low-wage immigrant labor in the food belt of California during harvest season, President Dwight Eisenhower experimented with a program in the 1950s that granted season-long passes to workers from Mexico. DeSantis and other Republican critics of Disney slammed the company for coming out against the education law, calling it a purveyor of woke ideology that inject inappropriate subjects into children's entertainment. 0000004258 00000 n Florida's governor seized control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district on Monday, hailing the end of the "corporate kingdom" as he effectively punished the entertainment giant over its "woke" opposition to his political agenda. Immigration thats too rapid or comes in waves invariably produces a local and typically racist/xenophobic backlash. Allowing a corporation to control its own government is bad policy, especially when the corporation makes decisions that impact an entire region, he said. i still believe this is an action of getting even, and you know how that goes when you seek to get even. VAERS reports also rose for Gardasil when the right decided that vaccinating young girls against cervical cancer was grooming. They found nothing. I know the parks are booming but it will slow down and with under performing agenda driven movies and entertainment , not to mention the failing Disney plus. 0000000996 00000 n We are focused on the future and are ready to work within this new framework.. The move will require Disney and the nearby counties to come up with an alternative arrangement for governing and taxing Disney World. He said he believes its important to point out the historical perspective that numerous counties have made the decision to transfer duties to the recorder in the past. At the ceremony ending Disneys special status on Monday, DeSantis portrayed his move not as a culture war tactic but as a question of good governance. On April 22, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that strips Walt Disney Company of its special status that previously allowed it to function as its own municipal government. Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ have grown by 57 million subscribers to hit more than 235 . They abandoned systems like I had to engage so I could work in Germany and Australia in 1986/87 and the early 2000s, or like Canada and other developed countries have had in place for decades. Immigration has historically been a powerful positive force for America, but it must be regulated in a way thats both fair to immigrants/asylum seekers and not disruptive of citizens work and lives. Reportedly these individuals will have their first meeting a week from Wednesday (WESH). "We want our kids to be kids, we want them to be able to enjoy entertainment, school, without having an agenda imposed upon them," said DeSantis, who has labeled Disney a "woke corporation" in the past. She was a founder of the rightwing education group Moms for Liberty. Associated Press contributed to this report, The Courage to be Free review: Ron DeSantis bows and scrapes to Trump, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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AllEars.Net, AllEars Newsletter and any other properties owned by AllEarsNet, LLC are not 0000005236 00000 n p^1a^3o7ca3iaO#f w;?????????????????.}j\}5e~ endstream endobj 47 0 obj <> endobj 48 0 obj <>stream Speakers at the event included a parent who criticized Disney for speaking out against the states education bill, saying the company chose the wrong side of the moral argument. While its true that two factors have driven a lot of migration over the past few decades (climate change wiping out farmland, and political dysfunction and gangs caused by the Reagan administration devastating the governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) the main driver of would-be immigrants and refugees into the US over the past 40 years has been the Republican Party itself. Florida Gov. We saw that here in the US with Irish immigrants in the 1840s following the potato famine that set the stage for Leonardo DiCaprios Gangs of New York story; with Chinese in the mid-1800s, leading to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; and the wave of Italian immigrants starting in the 1880s leading to No Dogs, No Italians signs here, as northern Europe also saw. i believe he may have bit off more than he can chew. I lived and worked in Germany for a year, and it took me almost four months to get a work-permit from that government to do so. Ladapo was back last week when it emerged that he'd been investigated for allegedly falsifying data for a previous antivax gambit. Disney has not yet responded to DeSantis signing the bill into law, but the company has previously said it would not fight the governors takeover of Reedy Creek. Its a significant setback for Disneys Florida operations. Supervisors still approved some decisions made by the recorder, and the elections director still did the duties that state law gives to the elections official, such as presenting final election results to the board for approval. Millions took him up on it, but his bracero program failed because employers not government controlled the permits, and far too many unscrupulous employers used the threat of canceling peoples work permits to silence workers who objected to having their wages stolen, or to intimidate workers who objected to physical or sexual abuse. The 2023 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival passport is here. Walt Disney World is governed by the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which functions like a county government and takes care of things like roads, construction permits, fire services, building codes, water and waste collection, among other infrastructure concerns. It's malpractice for a government agency to issue health directives based on VAERS data. 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