A Florida senator said that Disney should avoid getting involved in the state’s politics—namely on social issues—after the company criticized a parental rights bill backed by Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“Our kindergartners shouldn’t be taught about sex in school. So why Disney wants to go engage in some social issue, It doesn’t make any sense to me,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told Fox Business over the past weekend. “In a company that is relying on a special tax status, that doesn’t make any sense.”
“I don’t understand why Disney would be doing what it’s doing. I’m a business guy. You would not go engage in social issues like this if you want to keep all your customers, but I’d say the same thing about Coke and Delta when they lied about the election security laws in Georgia,” Scott continued.
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