I was living in Florida when Disney moved in and some of us knew then the reedy Creek deal was a complete sellout by the state. Smelled heavily of corruption. Big damn surprise.
Saw a documentary some years ago about the at the time mayor and city commissioners decision to convince DW to come to Florida.
They gave away the farm to get them here in many different ways.
The documentary went on to interview every commissioner still alive that had a vote......every one of ‘em unanimously stated that if they had it to do all over again there’s no way they would have voted to bring disney here.
I’m old enough to remember the Orlando area before DW.......it was a beautiful sleepy little town full of orange groves.
These days I can’t remember the last time I’ve been on I-4 much less visited O-town.
Among other plums, Disney gave a managerial level job to the son of Hayden Burns, the Democrat Governor at the time.