Disney’s biggest campaign contribution to Gov. DeSantis this cycle might not be money but rather the company’s decision to denounce the 'Don't Say Gay' law he signed.
"This is right in DeSantis’ wheelhouse,” said José Oliva, a DeSantis ally who was the Florida House speaker in 2019 and 2020, during the governor’s first two years in office. “Disney’s woke capitalism is exactly what DeSantis calls out.”
“His appeal is he fights back, he stands up regardless of where the stampede is going,” Oliva said. “Disney perhaps thought that, as a large corporation, that it was above these things. Now it realizes it’s going to be treated like everyone else.” “DeSantis’ national small-dollar donors, the QAnon extreme-right crowd is who he plays to. It’s not Floridians,” said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality FloridaDeSantis’ office reacted to the Equality Florida lawsuit by questioning whether Disney was underwriting the suit.
DeSantis banned mask mandates in local governments and schools, and he was the first Republican governor to cross the powerful cruise industry lobby — of which Disney is a member — by signing a law banning businesses from asking customers whether they’ve been vaccinated against Covid just
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