DeSatan's "woke" obsession is costing Fla. taxpayers millions in legal fees

[allegorical oracle]

As a result of the mounting lawsuits against DeSantis, the governor’s legal costs, which the Miami Herald reported last December to cost at least $16.7m, have been soaring.

In DeSantis’s legal fight against Disney following the corporation’s condemnation of his anti-LGBTQ+ laws, it is going to cost the governor and his handpicked board nearly $1,300 per hour in legal fees as they look into how the corporation discovered a loophole in DeSantis’s plan to acquire governing rights over Disney World, Insider reports.

“Disney is a perfect example. It doesn’t hurt any Floridians. There is nothing. It’s creating a legal issue out of nowhere and now Disney sued so they have to respond and that is going to cost taxpayers’ money. The whole Disney case is just because of DeSantis’s ego and his hurt feelings,” the Democratic state senator Tina Polsky said.

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Meanwhile, in another case covered by the Orlando Sentinel, DeSantis’s administration has turned to the elite conservative Washington DC-based law firm Cooper & Kirk to defend the governor against his slew of anti-woke laws. The firm’s lawyers charge $725 hourly, according to contracts reviewed by Orlando Sentinel. As of June 2022, the state authorized nearly $2.8m for legal services from just Cooper & Kirk alone, the outlet reports.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/ron-desantis-lawsuits-cost-florida-taxpayers

[Lovie777]

1. Floridians are losing confidence in him as well.........................

and to be honest, how the hell did he win this last time around.

[Native]

3. He won because he wasn't spouting all this antiwoke bullshit

Plus, people thought he handled this last hurricane crisis well. Little did they realize that his ego cost lots of lives - the same way it got in the way during Covid. During the hurricane, he didn't think it was necessary to follow the hurricane preparedness plan in Lee County because he personally thought the hurricane would shift course. Big expose about this in the Tampa Bay Times. Bottom line, they delayed evacuation orders (contrary to the plan), and people died because of that.

[Deuxcents]

4. He had a good opponent in 2018 ...Andrew Gillian

Then he was accused of fraudulent fundraising but was later acquitted. Then Charlie Crist ran against him and lost but imo, he wasn’t the best opponent. So, now we have a second term governor who wants to destroy the rest of the country.

[Blue Owl]

2. Time to send this pudding-brained loser into oblivion

[kimbutgar]

5. He needs to go away like Scott Walker did.

[live love laugh]

6. When will they respond to the wastefulness? They should.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Rating agency warns Disney debt conflict could 'weaken' other Florida government bonds

The rating agencies are worried about DeathSantis' stupid stunt. This is going to cost the state of Florida and local governments a great deal. If the rating agencies down grade Florida's credit, the cost of borrowing goes up

Link to tweet

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article260873762.html

One of the nation’s leading bond rating agencies warned Thursday that if the state of Florida doesn’t resolve a conflict over its decision to repeal Walt Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District and its obligation to investors, the move could harm the financial standing of other Florida governments.

Fitch Ratings posted the alert late Thursday on its Fitch Wire web site, nearly a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the measure dissolving the special taxing district that governs Disney property by June 1, 2023. Reedy Creek Improvement District holds nearly $1 billion in bond debt and last week Fitch issued a “negative watch” because of the uncertainty around how that debt will be paid and by whom......

A 1967 state law that established the Reedy Creek Improvement District on 39 square miles of Disney property gave the district the power to issue bonds and tax itself to build roads, sewers and utilities, establish its police and fire departments, and regulate its construction. In exchange, the state pledged “it will not limit or alter the rights of the District...until all such bonds together with interest thereon...are fully met and discharged.”

The law dissolving the district does not address how the bonds will be paid, but on Friday when he signed the measure, DeSantis said: “We’re going to take care of all that. Don’t worry. We have everything thought out. Don’t let anyone tell you that somehow Disney is going to get a tax cut out of this. They’re going to pay more taxes as a result of that.”

There is no easy way of fixing this issue without endangering the credit of the state

[Lovie777]

9. ad farmland.....

history, the real one that is woke.

[Scalded Nun]

8. They do not care. It's not their money, and better to squander it

this way than to have any of it go to folks in real need.

Same shit here in Texas. Millions upon millions wasted while thousands upon thousands thrown off of health care, denied benefits for care, food, you name it.

DeSantis, Abbott and their ilk are all just plain evil.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

10. DeSantis is going to cost FL a lot more than just money before he's gone.

And I don't mean gone as in to the wH.

[calimary]

11. I keep wondering who the hell votes for these jerks.

I bet not a single one of those voters thinks of possible ramifications to supporting vainglorious turds like him.

[LiberalFighter]

12. This should be easy to help defeat him. Both if he becomes the nominee.

And if he runs for Governor again.

[Phoenix61]

13. He can't run for Governor the next time. He will have to

sit out for 4 years before he can run again.

[Mad_Machine76]

14. I heard it said on a Tik-Tok about Republicans willfully passing unconstitutional laws

Republicans file lawsuits, NOT laws. Perfect slogan there.