Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings told an NBC affiliate that: "If we had to take over the first response and public safety components for Reedy Creek with no new revenue, that would be catastrophic for our budget in Orange County. Orange County and Osceola County, which would also be affected, are chockful of Democrats.
But if you dig a little deeper, you realize why they just don`t care. Now, naturally, such a massive tax hike would make you think it is political suicide for DeSantis. On top of that, they`re passing $1 billion in Disney bond debt onto every Florida taxpayer to punish Disney for speech. That is almost a 25 percent tax hike on the people who live in Disney`s counties. Flash-forward to 2022, where Florida Republicans are proudly attacking Disney`s freedom of speech and fake punishing them by effectively hiking taxes on hundreds of thousands of Floridians, to the tune of roughly $160 million. Republicans cried foul and squealed about the company`s freedom of speech.
The reason? The council opposed what they called Chick-fil- A`s - quote - "legacy of anti-LGBT behavior." I`m old enough to remember when those same Republicans in 2019 had a heart attack when the San Antonio City Council voted to bar Chick-fil-A from the city airport. Last week, the state legislature voted to dissolve Disney`s special Reedy Creek District, which allowed them to control zoning and operate their own police and fire departments and kept them from having to operate under rules that other counties must use. Why? Because they dare to push back on his hideous don`t say gay law.
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Look no further than the free state for some of Florida, where Ron DeSantis has waged a hypocritical war on Disney, freaking Disney. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said here in America, where the modern Republican Party is taking a page from Orban`s book and leaning hard into authoritarian socialism, where Christian conservatives are waging a full-on jihad against those who disagree with their increasingly and obsessively anti-gay/anti-trans/anti-immigrant/anti-history views.
With all that said, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and Le Pen`s loss is a resounding victory for democracy and for the French people, who, despite deep frustrations with the president, chose democracy over extremism. It should come as no surprise that Le Pen has received the backing of not just Russian banks, but of Trump`s most slovenly supporter, Steve Bannon, who is an active opponent of democracy. Just take a look at Hungary, where Viktor Orban was resoundingly reelected, after turning the country into a white Christian ethno-state that bans gay marriage is aggressively anti-Muslim immigrants and attacks liberal institutions, the press and controls the judiciary system.