DeSantis doubles down on Disney crackdown after 11th-hour bid to strip his oversight

Speaking from the inside mouse’s den at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, DeSantis said the GOP-controlled state Legislature will move to annul an 11th-hour bid by the company to strip his ne…

Disney-backed members of a panel that oversaw the since-renamed Reedy Creek Improvement District and handpicked their replacements.The change, he said, would roll back the company’s quasi-governmental powers and subject them to more robust state scrutiny.

The restrictions gave full developmental authority over the 27,000-acre property to the parent company and barred the board — now called the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District — from any use of the Disney brand. The park’s monorail, transportation systems and rides have been exempt from external inspections — but new regulations could makeafter Disney publicly rebuked a DeSantis-backed Florida law that banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade.

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