Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he's 'happy to stand in the way' and 'push back' against Disney's culture and education war.
"The ongoing battle with Disney, I think, is pointless," Griffin told CNBC’s Sara Eisen. "It doesn’t reflect well on the ethos of Florida."
Responding to billionaire GOP donor Ken Griffin’s criticism of his culture wars with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he won’t allow the company"to wreak havoc on our education system" on"Varney & Co." Tuesday, September 19, 2023. "Yes, they're the granddaddy of them all when it comes to Florida politics," DeSantis countered on FOX Business Tuesday. "But I'm happy to stand in the way of that and push back.", if we can't agree as a society that it's wrong to tell a second-grader that they can change genders," the governor continued, "then this country is just not going to succeed.
DeSantis’ debacle with the Walt Disney Company started when Disney publicly spoke out against Florida's Parental Rights in Education law, coined the "Don't Say Gay" bill by critics, which bans classroom instruction about gender identity or sexual orientation in lower grades.
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