Jeff Brandes is featured in a Washington Post article weighing in on Governor DeSantis’ dispute with Disney. Here is a snippet from said article:
In late April, DeSantis’s tax district declared Disney’s development agreements void. And Disney went to court, alleging government interference in its contracts and retribution for expressing opinions that the governor’s team didn’t like.
“Disney regrets that it has come to this,” the complaint dryly notes.
“The mouse brought in the big guns,” said Dave Aronberg, a state attorney in Palm Beach County and former Democratic state senator. “The problem with DeSantis’s case is that he and his supporters never tried to hide their true intentions. You can’t do any of this in retaliation.”
Jeff Brandes, a former Republican state senator who was the lone GOP member to vote against dissolving Disney’s special tax district last year, said he thinks everyone probably wishes the fight would just go away.
It’s been good for DeSantis, keeping his name in the national conversation, Brandes said. But he “got himself into something that he doesn’t know how to get out of.”
And Iger’s Disney gets a win because it looks like it is standing up for its employees and fighting back.
But, Brandes said, he imagines the court case will get dragged out and that, in a couple of years, Florida will have a new governor who “might not have the same vision that DeSantis has for picking this fight.”
“And so everybody moves on,” he said.