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district in central florida. i m gonna explain. i m going to say words right now and then ellie hunting is going to explain the words that i m saying but off relationship okay, so locked in key provisions they locked in key provisions before desantis is new board was able to take over and their battle stems from disney s opposition. you ll remember to florida that florida law that prohibits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity through third grade and only in an age appropriate manner in older grades. that was the law that critics dubbed. don t say gay desantis retaliated, you ll remember by going after disney s special tax status around its sprawling or landau area theme parks. okay so we have a lot to discuss with my panel. jay michaelson is here. he s a rolling stone writer slash rabbi. we have l leoni. he s our cnn senior legal eagle . who s going to explain everything tonight under jones is a former democratic congressman, and evan siegfried is a po ....
Gentlemen. great to have you here. what just happened, okay? it turns out that for a long time now disney has been given quasi governmental powers over itself. basically the state of florida has allowed them to run their own shop to make their own rules and get special little tax breaks. okay, along comes this law that sometimes called the don t say gay law. disney opposes this ron desantis in his sort of typical ron desantis fashion sees a moment of political opportunity, he says. oh, good. i can go after disney because they don t like this law. and so he says, i m going to take away your special shil privileges. disney. i m going to take back control of you like any other company for the state, and so the way that they execute that is desantis is given the power to name this board. there s a special board that governs disney and to put all his own people on the board. but before desantis is, people could take power. the old board entered into an agreement with disney, which basically ....