And here we thought the Walt Disney Company was taking it lying down. Au contraire: We've learned that one day before the slavish body known as the Florida legislature put Rhonda Santis in charge, the Reedy Creek Improvement District passed a development agreement that has basically rendered DeSantis's new, handpicked board toothless — for decades.
Actually, it could be more than decades. The agreement includes a slew of anti-Team-Rhonda restrictive covenants, which will be valid until "21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Charles III, King of England." Do these folks know how long-lived the Windsors are?
Outfoxed — or, maybe, out-moused — DeSantis is bringing in his favorite (very expensive) right-wing Washington "law firm" to contest all this, no doubt at taxpayers' expense. In the meantime, he and his GOP minions are sputtering in outrage. But they haven't got a leg to stand on, because this is exactly the kind of thing that they would have done if the circumstances had been reversed.
For those of us who despise DeSantis, it's all pretty swell. But sadly, it's also more proof that Florida has become a true banana republic. Property insurance costs are out of control — and the Republicans are spending their time doing what? Fighting with one of the largest job creators and tax generators in the state. We cats HISS.
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