“I don’t think what he’s done is going to be irreparable when he’s gone, unless he’s able to do it to the entire country,” Dyer said. Still, Dyer emphasized that the city’s pipeline of interest from businesses is strong, and factors that go into relocating are longer dated than a governor’s term. Disney didn’t mention the DeSantis dispute, saying only that conditions had changed since the move was announced almost two years ago.
The company in a note to employees on Thursday said it’s canceling the relocation of 2,000 employees from California to a corporate campus that it no longer plans to build near Orlando. Disney sued DeSantis last month, saying he engaged in a “targeted campaign of government retaliation.”ĭeSantis’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.ĭyer said he worries about the chilling effect the governor’s public campaign against the company may have on Orlando’s ability to attract business.ĭisney employs about 70,000 people in the Orlando area. The 44-year-old governor and the Republican-led state legislature cut Disney’s self-governing authority by seizing control of a municipal district originally run by the company that builds and maintains infrastructure at the Disney World theme park complex near Orlando. Read more: DeSantis Donors Called to Miami Speculate He’ll Launch 2024 Run “The pendulum has swung on some of these cultural issues.”ĭeSantis, widely expected to announce next week that he will run for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, has feuded with Disney over the company’s opposition to a Florida law that limited discussion of sexual identity in schools. Disney’s gonna be here forever,” Dyer, a Democrat running for his sixth term, said. “DeSantis is going to be gone one way or the other from Florida in four years.
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