'Mickey and Minnie have full asylum in Colorado': Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tells Disney to ditch the Sunshine State and slams Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for 'authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector'

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 22, 2022 | Andrea Blanco

[Morgana]

The culture war over Disney reached new heights Thursday, as Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Florida Gov. Ron De Santis traded barbs over the company's future in the Sunshine State.

Earlier this week, Polis voiced disagreement over DeSantis' support for legislation that would strip Disney of its special status as a self-governing area, which was ultimately passed Thursday by the Florida House.

Polis then accused DeSantis of using socialist tactics to control the private sector, and invited Disney to ditch the Sunshine State and move to Colorado.

'Florida's authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away,' Polis tweeted, along with a video of DeSantis threatening to 'hold the Twitter board of directors accountable' for blocking an acquisition by Elon Musk.

'In CO, we don't meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter,' Polis tweeted on Tuesday. 'Hey @Disney we're ready for Mountain Disneyland and @Twitter we're ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are.'

'We will grant Mickey and Minnie full asylum in Colorado,' the Democrat later wrote.

Polis doubled down on his remarks on Thursday, after the Florida House voted 68-38 to end the Reedy Creek Improvement District, meaning Disney will no longer be able to operate as a self-contained government.

'...when government starts threatening private companies with retribution based on their free speech, that takes us down the road towards authoritarianism,' Polis told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.

Meanwhile, DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw decried Polis' accusations of authoritarian attacks, saying that DeSantis has a deeper understanding of the ideology and its consequences as many Floridians have fled regimens of the sort.

Pushaw invited Polis to 'educate' himself on what socialism is, hinting that he had used the term lightly to 'weaponize baseless allegations.'

[MrRelevant]

It clearly wasn’t a threat….

[I-ambush]

Excellent point.

[Altura Ct.]

I think they should in fact I think all the woke people in the country should move to Colorado.

[DaBroasta]

Disney, come to Colorado if you want to sexually abuse children!

Is it true that Polis wants to lower the legal age of consent to 9 years of age?

[real saxophonist]

Polismoker wants a different kind of balls. Not eyeballs.

[MachIV]

That was the first thing I thought of when I heard this. It’s laughable.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thank you for reminding me of that “fascist-control-by-the-socialist-state” little exhibit of tolerance.

[pepsionice]

I could see some kind of winter-wonderland (’snow valley’) which could be some clone of a German 1970s ski-village. But this would only run four months out of the year. You’d never get your investment money back on this deal.

Also....a fair number of Colorado folks are environmentalists....who won’t agree to some giant Disney village.

[Reeses]

Thomas Edison may have invented projection, but Democrats made it into an art form.

[chopperk]

Gov. Polis’ husband must have a bad headache, now he is going after fresh meat.

[DesertRhino]

Polis is a groomer.

[z3n]

Colorado is a beautiful state, but I would not move there after hearing this. Protecting 2nd graders from sex talk and removing special tax privileges are not draconian concepts.

[FlipWilson]

“It’s authoritarian to attack the private sector.”

Said the party that has made it their central plank to attack BIG (insert industry here).

[Billie Bud]

Oh man…even the Governor of Colorado has saw the light and turned against Disney!!!

He wants them to come and set up shop in his frozen, mountainous, and no-ocean state. Probably putting Disney in Boulder would be the icing on the cake.

This must have shocked Disney.

Pretty sure Colorado, unlike Florida, also has state income tax…yikes! What a threat!

[cnsmom]

The best thing now is for Disney to quickly disappear permanently.

[nonliberal]

Here’s a question: If you have an organization whose leadership has openly stated they are grooming kids, why is that organization allowed to exist and why is that leadership not in jail?

[USS Alaska]

Firstly, Disney was given the power to largely police themselves when they came to Central Florida in the mid 1960s. The interior part of the state was largely undeveloped at the time because it was hot and humid and the state wanted to draw in all those tourists and all their money so they cut Disney a sweetheart deal.At the time, it was a great deal for both Disney and the State and no one could have predicted how large and powerful Disney would become.

Disney just screwed the pooch {the underage pooch} by messing with DeSantis when he has a large majority in the FL House and Senate.

This is a legal fight that Disney cannot win, not in the legislature, the courts or the court of public opinion.

You only have to ask the average guy on the street if Disney should have the political power to build a nuclear power plant, {without any government supervision} on it property.

[LouAvul]

What a surprise. A fag pervert (gov of Kolorado? How'd that happen?) welcomes fags and perverts? Yeah, the more the merrier.

Sort of like gathering that trash into a compact area like Sodom. "Hey! Look up! I've never seen that before!"

[BobL]

Must be TEMPTING to the people who work at Disney, as they’ll be welcome to groom all they want in Colorado...I guess.

[CodeToad]

Polis is a mentally ill homosexual, so of course he likes the groom for child molestation Disney does.