The Florida Senate Committee on Fiscal Policy has approved an amendment to create State inspections on the Walt Disney World monorail system. During discussion, the sponsor of the amendment, Republican Senator Nick DiCeglie, did note that the language of the amendment was specifically meant to target Disney World.
DiCeglie said that while the Florida Department of Transportation would have the power to shut down the Disney World monorail system, it would be a measure of “last resort”. Disney World would be subject to annual inspections by the State to ensure compliance with safety standards. Disney World would be required to submit annual safety plans to the State. Inspections of the monorail would be made at a time that both Disney World and the State agree to.
The amendment is just the latest action from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ rubber-stamp legislature and is meant to be punitive against Walt Disney World after the Company spoke out against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Disney CEO Bob Iger has labeled DeSantis’ actions in a State takeover of the Reedy Creek Improvement District “retaliatory“.
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There will come a time when Disney tells Florida to go jump in the ocean
they could pack up and move to another state and the volume of money that Florida would lose would be astronomical .
Do Floridians think that DeSantis will stick around when he decides he’s going to run for president
he’ll leave you guys standing there holding the bag and the only thing you’ll have left is an empty place where Disney world and Disneyland and Epcot used to be
your biggest employer your biggest tax base will leave
DeSantis will just laugh and he’ll move on to something else and Florida will be screwed
Disney will never leave Florida. Walt wanted an East Coast location with favorable weather year-round for outdoor activities. He needed a lot of cheap land. And he needed a pliable, low-regulation government. Florida was the only choice with all that, and it still took Roy’s brilliant engineering of frankly sneaky massive land purchases at cheap rates to make it possible. And he also oversaw creation of that uniquely autonomous Reedy Creek district to give the company near total control of development on all that land it quietly bought for relative peanuts.
None of that would now be possible. All other all-season locations east of the Mississippi are in deep-red states, and in any event no vast tracts of cheap land are available to a multibillion-dollar corporation looking for a new location. Disney’s 1960s-era backroom shenanigans can’t take place at any scale today. If they tried, closing WDW and building out a new location would take years and leave them financially ruined.
Disney pulling out of Florida is a pipe dream.