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Florida’s Reedy Creek Probe Comes Up Empty

A probe into the agreements made between Reedy Creek Improvement District and Disney by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has come up empty. The probe was ordered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after it was discovered that an agreement between Reedy Creek and Disney basically left the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District with very little power over the district. The agreement was made shortly before Governor DeSantis signed a law that gave him control over the district.

The request by Moody was filed on March 30 and the district determined “no records exist.” Moody sought “documents discussing an intention or goal of circumventing, avoiding, frustrating, mitigating or otherwise attempting to avoid the effects of anticipated actions by the Florida governor and the Florida Legislature.” 

The agreement between Disney and Reedy Creek was signed on February 8, 2023. The new board for the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District has complained that this agreement has tied their hands and doesn’t allow them oversight of Disney at all.

Moody was seeking copies of emails, text messages and other correspondence from board members, district employees and other affiliates related to the deals. However, Reedy Creek appears to not have any. Reedy Creek board records show that public notice was provided for the meetings when the agreements were approved. Disney also released a statement saying that the deals with the district were “appropriate” and also done within the accordance of Florida law.

It is expected that the new board will be discussing this agreement and Moody’s probe into it in the next meeting on this coming Wednesday. The board will also be taking up a resolution that will declare themselves the “superior authority” on planning, zoning and land-development regulations over the Disney-controlled cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista.

The development comes as Governor DeSantis has threatened to tax Disney even more with toll roads and hotel taxes after the agreement was discovered. What the next steps will be by Disney or Florida governments is unknown. This doesn’t seem to be going away or getting any closer to being resolved, however. In a recent interview with Time, Disney CEO Bob Iger said he is open to speaking with DeSantis. This also remains to be seen if it will happen.

Daps Magic will continue to follow this story and provide updates as they become available. What do you think of this development? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!


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8 responses to “Florida’s Reedy Creek Probe Comes Up Empty”

  1. U S. Voter Avatar
    U S. Voter

    I live out of state and I am upset that Ron’s next choice is to tax patrons coming to the state of Florida via extra tolls and extra hotel taxes. Disney is visited by many citizens in the U.S. who vote. If he’s running for president, is this really his best next move? This punishes me, the voter, not Disney and will be remembered at the ballot box.

  2. Sue Paradise Brown Avatar
    Sue Paradise Brown

    I live in Florida and I’ve been watching what our Governor’s next move on Disney. Just because Disney didn’t follow this governor’s way of thinking on gays. He wants to punish Disney. The joke is on our dumb governor. Just think if he becomes our president and another country doesn’t do what HE WANTS this bully of a person would make that country suffer. The other countries laugh at Trump just think what they would do if DeSantis is our president!

  3. I think DeSantis needs too put his greedy fingers back into his own pudding cup , and leave Disney’s alone.

  4. Walter Lane Avatar
    Walter Lane

    I live in Central Florida and a lot of my friends are employees of Disney. Ron Desantis is a cruel moron and Micky will get the best of the Florida dictator. The Mouse is smarter than the so call dictator

  5. Thank you Disney. Disney is too important to Florida in so many ways that an attack by a petulant governor is to ridiculous to the state of florida. Cease and move on .

  6. kenny g - NY Avatar
    kenny g – NY

    Welcome to the fascist rule of current Florida law under the iron law of a book-banner, homophobe, and seemingly petty man that doesn’t like to called to the carpet on decisions or policies. Is this the New America? Here is a man who wasted state taxpayers dollars flying immigrants out of Florida to a Northeast state to make some whimsical statement about his view of the current immigration law. DeSantis should be financially responsible for the cost of that flight and all related and associated costs. DeSantis has recently called the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute”……sounds like the previous “spins” put forth on Americans on the previous wars in Korea and Vietnam. Semantics…..pure and simple. Multi-year conflicts, killing thousands of soldiers and disrupting forever the the lives of hundreds of thousands of families word smithed to be minimized and dismissed.

    Do we want another 5-10 years of American’s being lied to deceived to push forth political agendas usually backed by superPAC’s money and revolved around pro-guns, anti-gay, pro-life, pro-religion? What does DeSantis really stand for? Does anyone know? To date it seems to be the same agendas established by “great leaders” such as Hitler and Mussolini. Is that what America wants? Is that what the majority of what Floridians want or is that just what the gerrymandered voting results say? Here’s any idea…………lets eliminate (or at least test the mathematical and geometrical savvy of those who are trying to illegally alter “election” results”) multi-polygonal voting districts. What does that mean? Let’s pass a Federal Law that ALL voting district boundaries can only be comprised of a Maximum of eight (8) sides. No more boundaries that have 30-, 40- or more sides to carve their way around areas whose voters don’t support their agenda. Is this not like a fixed boxing fight? Is this not like creating an unfair advantage to generate an agenda-driven outcome? Is this what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote it? Fix all elections to support our pre-decided agenda?

    Please, please, please take a long, hard look at what is happening in Florida and what those supporters of DeSantis are saying about the freedoms and inalienable rights of all Americans. Don’t be a sheep, be a wolf fighting for the rights of the individual American. Is that not what America is supposed to be about? Does anyone remember the reasons we fought and broke free from the rule of England? Do those same truths still ring true? If YES, STOP THE NONSENSE. Stop finding ways to restrict the rights of women over their own bodies in the light of the catholic church. Where did we stray off path in the separation of church and state? Does anyone remember what that even means. I am sure all the history books in the schools today fail to really make that point because it would not support the agenda of Big Business. Does anyone know why all the Republicans want to minimize Federal controls and put the power in the individual States? I’ll tell you, it is so one by one each state can morph into a policy of fascism and eventually, a new Civil War will happen. Remember the last Civil War? We set brother against brother all in the name of money, not slavery…………..that is not what the civil war was about. It was about Big Business and resulted the death of over 600,000 lives which is MORE than WWI & WWII combined. If we forget (or fail to teach) our real American history, we are doomed to REPEAT……………….

  7. The sad part is the stupid people of Florida keeps voting this idiot in. They are lucky Disney doesn’t ask another to accommodate what they have going in Florida.

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