DeSantis screws over the Disney Firefighters who supported him

[Dutch Uncle]

Note the irony; the firefighters supported DeSantis and ended up getting fucked in the ass by him. This is another reason why I doubt DeSantis can make a successful bid for a Floridian Senate seat.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dis...edy-creek-board-stripped-park-benefits-2023-8
Disney's firefighters backed DeSantis as he feuded with the company. Now his new board ignored their pleas and stripped away their park benefits.

• Disney World's firefighters were once in support of DeSantis' plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
• That was until his new board stripped them of their discounts and free passes to the parks.
• A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' board last week at a meeting about their decision.

Disney World's first responders once backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' plan to assume control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which formerly had autonomous control over the land that Disney occupied.

"Anything has got to be better than what we currently have," Tim Stromsnes, communications director of the Reedy Creek Professional Firefighters Local 2117 union, told the Orlando Sentinel in January.

But now firefighters are having second thoughts after the new oversight board moved to strip them of special Disney perks they've had for decades. Last week, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the rebranded Reedy Creek board, revoked all of the firefighters' free passes to the Disney parks and resorts. First responders told the Miami Times Online makes visits to the theme park unaffordable now.

"The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here," firefighter Pete Simon told the Times Online.

A number of firefighters confronted DeSantis' new board at a monthly meeting last Wednesday about the free passes and what they meant for them and their families. They said, according to the Times Online, that the discounts afforded to them by Disney were a major reason they chose to work there....

...DeSantis argued that he wasn't specifically targeting Disney when he pushed the legislature to end its special status shortly after the fight over the parental rights law. But in his book, the governor seemed to delight in taking on one of the largest employers in his state. Disney also scrapped a $1 billion project planned in the state.