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DeSantis appointee to new Disney oversight board suggested tap water could turn people gay
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/kfile-ron-desantis-disney-ron-peri-anti-lgbtq/index.htmlCNN
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An appointee to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new oversight board in control of Disney’s special tax district called homosexuality “evil” last year and shared a baseless conspiracy theory that tap water could be making more people gay.
On Monday, the Republican governor appointed Ron Peri, an Orlando-based former pastor and the CEO of The Gathering – a Christian ministry focused on outreach to men – as one of five people who will now oversee the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the government body that has given Disney unique powers in Central Florida for more than half a century.
DeSantis signed a bill in February that allowed him to replace the district’s existing board – mostly people with ties to Disney – with a five-member body that he hand-picked. The move to remove power from Disney comes nearly a year after the company spoke out against a Florida bill – which DeSantis later signed into law – to restrict certain classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.
A CNN KFile review of Peri’s past comments found that he frequently made derogatory remarks about the LGBTQ community.
“So why are there homosexuals today? There are any number of reasons, you know, that are given. Some would say the increase in estrogen in our societies. You know, there’s estrogen in the water from birth control pills. They can’t get it out,” Peri baselessly said in a January 2022 Zoom discussion, later put on YouTube. “The level of testosterone in men broadly in America has declined by 50 points in the past 10 years. You know, and so, maybe that’s a part of it.”
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who understands the complex project management skills needed to handle budgets, plan for drainage, landscaping, roadways and other such engineering challenges, who will be a great asset to Disney and the Florida taxpayer on the board.
I hope Disney's project managers absolutely BURY these people in budgeting and engineering questions to expose just how absurd it is to have these people on a board they clearly have no business being on.
A prune or two might help... 
Think I'll start calling this my blog and basing my VPN server through Florida just to piss 'em off.
Come at me bro...
maybe we should be adding estrogen to the water supplies of ALL US cities. 