Disney CEO Bob Iger calls DeSantis ‘anti-Florida’ in fight over special district
ORLANDO, Fla. – Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger addressed the ongoing feud between the theme park giant and Ron DeSantis on Monday hours after the Florida governor fired back at the former Reedy Creek Improvement District, requesting an investigation into the former board.
“Any action that supports those efforts simply to retaliate for a position (Disney) took sounds not just anti-business, but it sounds anti-Florida, and I’ll just leave it at that,” Iger said in a shareholders meeting on Monday.
DeSantis set out to destroy Disney’s self-government after the company publicly challenged Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by critics, back in March 2022 when Bo...