DeSantis signs bill revoking Disney’s special self-governing status in Florida
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The move comes after Disney criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing a bill that prevents classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation through the third grade.
Advocacy groups lashed out at DeSantis, who’s eyeing a White House bid in 2024, after he signed the bill targeting Disney.
“Governor DeSantis is wielding the power of the state to punish businesses simply for not falling in line with his brutal and discriminatory attacks,” Joni Madison, interim president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “It’s simply another example of Gov. DeSantis’s attempts to tell people what to say, how to teach, what they can learn, what they can believe, and who they can be, and shows that Gov. DeSantis is prioritizing attacking LGBTQ+ people over the well-being of his state.”
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