There's a tin-foil hat theory going around that Chapek asked DeSantis to do this so that he could use it as leverage to get the Disney board behind his original politically neutral agenda.
As much of a headache as the Special District revocation would be for the Florida government, there's no way that it's actually in Disney's interests to have this happen. On a financial level alone, they would be compelled to open the Disney World books to third party scrutiny in a way that they haven't had to do in 55 years.
Not really. There's a lot of private stuff that is protected, this would be severely limited to governance of that specific area. They can claim a lot of private asset protections, and can safely unload their town debts and obligations to those who live there. Another thing would be any 'city' worker pensions, a major financial burden for many cities. The headache involved is worth unloading all the financial obligations and debts. They can also sell their stakes in these areas at astronomical prices, such as unneeded land and building sites because this is in the Orlando metro area.
There's a tin-foil hat theory going around that Chapek asked DeSantis to do this so that he could use it as leverage to get the Disney board behind his original politically neutral agenda.
As much of a headache as the Special District revocation would be for the Florida government, there's no way that it's actually in Disney's interests to have this happen. On a financial level alone, they would be compelled to open the Disney World books to third party scrutiny in a way that they haven't had to do in 55 years.
Something tells me they'd like to avoid that.
Not really. There's a lot of private stuff that is protected, this would be severely limited to governance of that specific area. They can claim a lot of private asset protections, and can safely unload their town debts and obligations to those who live there. Another thing would be any 'city' worker pensions, a major financial burden for many cities. The headache involved is worth unloading all the financial obligations and debts. They can also sell their stakes in these areas at astronomical prices, such as unneeded land and building sites because this is in the Orlando metro area.