Rick Wilson: The Battle of Reedy Creek

[babylonsister]

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/518189-rick-wilson-the-battle-of-reedy-creek/

Rick Wilson: The Battle of Reedy Creek
Guest Author
April 21, 20229min

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It’s time for Disney to call Ron’s bluff.

How? One idea is to go in hard against DeSantis in the Florida Governor’s race, but I’d argue against it. As a general in this war, he’s hard to kill politically. So why not take some of his enablers off the battlefield?

Disney should identify a dozen or so Florida state House and Senate races and invest $25-$30 million into breaking the GOP majority in the state. For the Florida GOP, that amount of money is a significant lift; for Disney, it’s a rounding error. Make every Florida Senator who sponsored this monstrosity rise from their normally serene easy re-elections and suffer.

Bullies rarely fight alone. DeSantis needs an obedient majority in the Legislature to make the threat of breaking Disney a reality. Break — or even shrink — the GOP majority and he’s a loudmouth, not a threat. Given this stunt’s massive, budget-crushing costs, a Legislature with fewer Ron acolytes will think twice before playing this game again.

Disney almost certainly won’t follow this advice. Their lobbyists in Tallahassee have committed profound political malpractice and failed the client. So of course, they’ll double down on doing more of what got them here; sucking up to the Florida GOP and the Governor who wants to destroy them.

“Go along to get along” is political poison when you’re dealing with authoritarians.

Disney is on the front lines of the culture war now, and unless they fight back hard, it’s a war DeSantis has every intention of riding all the way to the White House.

[Walleye]

1. Ron DeSantis, you just lost reelection, what are you gonna do next?

Cue the confetti. Disney should use their vast media machine to deal with this

[Marius25]

11. He's not going to lose. His popularity has been rising from all this crap.

[Walleye]

12. These petty megalomaniacs always overplay their hand. Just a matter of time. Too much time

[Phoenix61]

2. I don't think he's correct. Disney was one of the first to

open employee medical benefits to live-in significant others. They’ve been hosting Gay Days at Disney for as long as I can remember. They’ve been in the entertainment business since 1923. They didn’t pull that off without knowing what direction the wind was blowing in. Disney is geared towards young families and young people are overwhelmingly supportive of the LGBTQ community. They backed Repubs because it was economically advantageous. That advantage is clearly gone. Add to that they need a large well educated work force. It’s clear the repub agenda is antithetical to that. I think they know exactly what they are doing. They were around the last time fascism tried to conquer the world and they know what it looks like when it starts. I don’t see them sitting idly by while it festers in their own backyard.

[FakeNoose]

3. Rick Wilson's conclusion is not to be missed

From the OP:

Disney almost certainly won’t follow this advice. Their lobbyists in Tallahassee have committed profound political malpractice and failed the client. So of course, they’ll double down on doing more of what got them here; sucking up to the Florida GOP and the Governor who wants to destroy them.

“Go along to get along” is political poison when you’re dealing with authoritarians.

Disney is on the front lines of the culture war now, and unless they fight back hard, it’s a war DeSantis has every intention of riding all the way to the White House.

[Pachamama]

8. I agree with Rick Wilson's proposed tactic - but not his conclusion that Disney won't follow it

My money is on the Mouse

[Marcuse]

9. Wilson could be wrong this time. Wait till DeSantis finds out that Charlee is a teacher.

Charlee Corra, a member of the Disney family, came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.

Corra, who uses "he" and "they" pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.

Roy P. Disney, Corra's stepfather and the grandson of Roy O. Disney, a co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.

“Equality matters deeply to us,” Disney said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times, “especially because our child, Charlee, is transgender and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.”[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/disney-heir-comes-publicly-transgender-condemns-anti-lgbtq-bills-rcna23888|

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Or, they can look for the soverignty clause in their contract.

[sarcasmo]

5. The 2024 GOP nominee, Ron DeathSantis.

[scarletlib]

6. Maybe someone from Disney will read this and take his advice.

These large corporations should be getting wise to the fact that its a new Republican Party that is no longer the party of business. They will punish any business that doesn’t bow down to them.

Democrats in Florida aren’t so stupid as to destroy the goose that laid the golden egg.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Rick Wilson knows the trenches

Imagine a Governor bent on toppling a major corporation in his state. Not pro-business posture at all. And really, how un-American to target Disney!!

[Hekate]

10. To Rick Wilson, a tip of the Mouse Ears from me. Hope the Mouse House pays heed.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Great editorial