Ron DeSantis vs. Disney Goes Another Round

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Florida Governor jokes about building a prison next to Disney World, as Donald Trump denounces this feud as a political stunt that will hurt the state's economy. Plus, the Supreme Court takes up Groff v. DeJoy, a case about a USPS mail carrier who asked for a religious accommodation to avoid working on Sundays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.3	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:34.1	Florida, Governor, Ron DeSantis jokes, or at least I think it was a joke about maybe building
0:38.9	a prison next to Disney World, as the Supreme Court takes up a case on how flexible employers must
0:45.0	be in accommodating religious workers. Welcome, Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:50.1	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel.
0:55.6	The feud between Disney and Governor DeSantis seems to be turning into Hatfields and McCoy's,
1:01.3	and the latest or some comments this week from Governor DeSantis at a press conference talking
1:06.7	about what was formerly known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District, this special district surrounding
1:13.2	Disney World. Here's what Governor DeSantis said. One of the things they tried to do was was put
1:18.3	restrictive covenants on the land that the district owns. If you look at this whole special
1:23.6	district, Walt Disney Corporation owns a lot of it, but the district owns other land.
1:30.2	Frankly, I wasn't even thinking about that land. This was not something that was really
1:35.6	important one way or another. We just wanted them to live under the same rules, pay the debt, pay
1:40.4	the taxes, all that stuff. Come to think of it now people are like, what should we do with this land?
1:45.1	And so it's like, okay, people have said maybe have another, maybe create a state park, maybe
1:53.5	try to do more amusement parks. Someone even said like, maybe you need another state prison.
1:59.3	Who knows? I just think that the possibilities are endless.
2:03.3	Please, what do you make of this? Why do you think that Rhonda Santas wants to keep fighting this war?
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