The DeSantis Mouse Problem

It is summer 2023 and…shocker, the Reedy Creek Improvement District has not been dissolved.

Rather, the matter is “ongoing.”

And, since it is Disney we are discussing here…shocker, there is a lawsuit filed against Ron DeSantis for the Legislature’s decision to dissolve the the Reedy Creek Improvement District and replace its authority over the land it governs in Florida.

February 27, 2023, in News Releases, by Staff

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 9-B, Reedy Creek Improvement District, Orange, and Osceola Counties, to end self-governing status and special privileges provided to Walt Disney World through the Reedy Creek Improvement District and establish a new state-controlled district accountable to the people of Florida. The bill provides legislative intent on the district’s authority to raise revenue and pay outstanding bonds and other obligations without interruption. More on HB 9-B can be found here.

FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION: CONTRACTS CLAUSE VIOLATION …..

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SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION: TAKINGS CLAUSE VIOLATION…

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THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION: DUE PROCESS CLAUSE VIOLATION …..

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FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION: FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION.

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FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION: FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION……….. 69

“Allowing a corporation to control its own government is bad policy, especially when the corporation makes decisions that impact an entire region,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “This legislation ends Disney’s self-governing status, makes Disney live under the same laws as everybody else, and ensures that Disney pays its debts and fair share of taxes.”

HB 9-B ends Disney’s self-governing status and imposes a five-member state control board that is appointed by the Governor and subject to Senate confirmation.

This legislation amends the Reedy Creek Improvement District charter which: 

• ENDS Disney’s self-governing status.
• ENDS Disney’s exemption from the Florida Building Code and Florida Fire Prevention Code.
• ENDS Disney’s exemption from state regulatory reviews and approvals.
• ENDS Disney’s secrecy by ensuring transparency. 
• ENSURES that Disney will pay its fair share of taxes.
• PREVENTS leftist local governments from using the situation to raise local taxes.
• IMPOSES Florida law so that Disney is no longer given preferential treatment.
• ENSURES that Disney’s municipal debt will be paid by Disney, not Florida taxpayers.

Disney remains King Florida Rat, I mean King Mouse of improving Florida’s wet and submerged lands.

What is the Reedy Creek Improvement District? And why does it matter for Disney’s case against DeSantis?

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Chapter 67-764, Laws of Florida, Special Acts 1967, provides for establishing its powers and functions. This particular act grants explicitly the power to a District Board to adopt a drainage plan for wet and submerged lands.

The District established is authorized to place such wet and submerged lands under a system of water control, and the act grants the District Board the to conduct improvements to the land use and to issue revenue bonds to finance project costs.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District, est in 1967, granted approximately 25,000 acres in Orange and Osceola counties in Florida to Disney.

On January 31, 1968, the Reedy Creek Board (

here on, the $DIS Board) divided the area into two areas, designated Subdistricts 01 and 02, to furnish its subdistricts improvements, as provided by its authority of District government under the Florida act.

On May 6, 1968, the $DIS Board adopted a further resolution authorizing Drainage Revenue Bonds, Series A, and B, Bonds in the aggregate principal amount not exceeding $12M for the purpose of paying the cost of District improvement.

October 1, 1968:

Bonds were issued in the denomination of $5,000 each, bearing interest from their date, payable semi-annually, and mature serially. For the reclamation of swamp land, Bonds Series A will mature on October 1 of each year 1970 to 1999, and Series B will mature on October 1 of each of the years 1975 to 2004. Bonds and the interest shall not constitute a lien upon any property of or in the $DIS District. And only a lien on the revenues from services and facilities of the $DIS District improvement project.

Critical here is that such bonds issued by the $DIS Board were not “bonds” within the meaning of Section 6, Article IX, State Constitution, F.S.A., and were/are not required by the Constitution and Statutes to be approved at an election by voters.

Still, the Supreme Court of Florida; November 27, 1968:

The Court found that the primary purpose of the $DIS District project funded by the bonds is “public.”

“and that such benefit to private enterprise, if any, from the construction of the project is purely incidental to the primary purpose.”

Finally, in 1968, the court found that the $DIS District had been lawfully created and that the enabling act, Chapter 67-764, did not violate the Constitution of Florida.

State v. Reedy Creek Improvement District
Supreme Court of Florida.
November 27, 1968.

https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1968/37569-0.html

But remember, Governor’s Staff Office emphasized that they cannot afford to lose control over their constituents responsibility for their own decisions and impotence.

As by DeSantis himself, this would not have happened if it were not for the bond opportunity that utilized governments for investment return on their money and governments relied on instead of addressing their own needs to make public infrastructure investments.

Indeed, the state has been forced into a common crisis—of a state controlled by the Mouseketeering men of Wall Street. It wasn’t Floridians, it was Vigilantes who brilliantly pioneered municipal debt as a new form of private income.

And These Men of the Mouse on Wall Street gained power to enforce their laws by water regulations in their own jurisdictions. For Florida, 1967 was the first step towards establishing a state of Mouse and Men for their own Ill gotten gains from their respective improvements to land for bonds.

That sounds all is well and awful, but for now but it only makes Disney more powerful in their claims that they have a right to the right they’re given to Florida land.

And the creative ways of manipulating municipal law for profit by exploiting state Districts to create their power and control bond issuances for their Disney Property.

Perhaps, even more than than swamps and bonds, this Disney mess for DeSantis would not have happened without the government of Florida being able and willing to expedite legal proceedings to grant District Authorities permission for one private company that could fund stabilize create and build the entire center of its state.

And which, according to the current Governor, only exist today because of Disney propaganda and gays and wokeness!