{"id":20866,"date":"2022-03-12T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20866"},"modified":"2022-03-12T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T23:54:16","slug":"walt-disney-co-is-suspending-its-political-donations-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/03\/12\/walt-disney-co-is-suspending-its-political-donations-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Co. is suspending its political donations in Florida."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company\u2019s CEO received huge blowback for not using Disney\u2019s vast influence in the state to try to quash a recently passed Republican bill that would prevent teachers from instructing early grades on LGBTQ issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/b9870159f889bc604b7096b3f15f8813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/b9870159f889bc604b7096b3f15f8813.jpg 630w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/b9870159f889bc604b7096b3f15f8813-300x200.jpg 300w\" \/><figcaption>Disney CEO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday accused the company of being friendly with communist China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The governor\u2019s action stunned Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disney is a multibillion-dollar economic driver for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disney has also contributed huge amounts of money to Florida\u2019s political parties and politicians and has wielded incredible influence on the state\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s CEO received huge blowback for not using Disney\u2019s vast influence in the state to try to quash a recently passed Republican bill that would prevent teachers from instructing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[2531],"class_list":["post-20866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-walt-disney-co-is-suspending-its-political-donations-in-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}