Child Groomer, Sexual Predator
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Disney will never leave Florida, that is simply impossible.
Disney will outlast DiSantos, for sure.
I disagree that Disney is "defying" Disantos. There is no law against hosting events catering to gays.
DiSantos was married at Disney, by the way. He is at least as tacky as Fantasyland.
I am not gay, I have worked with and been friends with a number of gays and Lesbians over the years.
DiSantos had NO reason to mess with Disney's sweetheart deal with Reedy Creek other than spite and grandstanding. It was a nasty trick that I fin reprehensible.
I am personally not very fond of Disney World, I have visited there only once, with my daughter and one of her friends.
For a summer, I worked in King's Dominion, an amusement park N. of Richmond, VA. I did cash control, collecting the money doing accounting reports. A fringe benefit was that I ended up with about $50 in silver quarters and dimes. There were not many in circulation, but I was good at spotting them. I ride all the rides, saw all the acts, And I think that exhausted my desire for amusement parks. Kings Dominion was basically a cheap knockoff of Disney, owned by the Taft family of Ohio (President / Chief Justice Taft, Senator Bob Taft. The Taft in charge was Dudley Taft, a guy who flunked out of an Ivy League school and still managed to become some sort of honcho.
Kings Dominion had no Mickey or Donald. Instead it had Hanna Barbera characters: Scooby Doo, Fred Flintstone, Huckleberry Hound, the Jetsons.
The most memorable event was on July 4th when Kings Dominion hired radio celebrity Wolfman Jack to do his act. The Wolfman demanded one million dollars, paid in cash in tens and twenties. We were responsible for putting together his payment. This was in the glorious Bicentennial year of 1976 and the song "Afternoon delight" played on the radio about once an hour.
We had the Wolfman's million all counted out three hours before he was to pick it up in a suitcase. When we heard he was coming, the local executive came by and asked us (duh!) if we had counted correctly, and he was the one who opened the door, and handed the loot to Wolfman's chauffeur, who put it in the back seat. We didn't get a change to see the Wolfman, he came in a black Cadillac limo with very dark tinted windows. July 4 was a very busy time. There were lots of fireworks.