Nikki Haley extends invite to Disney to leave Florida in shot at DeSantis
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Republican 2024 presidential candidate and former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) took a hit at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Wednesday by inviting Disney to leave Florida and bring its business to South Carolina instead.
Haley’s invitation comes shortly after Disney filed a lawsuit against DeSantis in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida over what the company called “a relentless campaign to weaponize government power against Disney in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint unpopular with certain State officials.”
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“South Carolina was a very anti-woke state. It still is,” Haley said on Fox News. “And if Disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands of jobs to South Carolina and bring the billions of dollars with them, I’ll let them know I’ll be happy to meet them in South Carolina and introduce them to the governor and the legislature that would welcome it.”
Haley also said that when she was governor of South Carolina, businesses were her partners “because if you take care of your businesses, you take care of your economy, your economy takes care of the people, and everyone wins.”
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She continued, “And so that’s the way we dealt with it.”
The lawsuit came after a yearlong conflict between the media conglomerate and the potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate in which DeSantis made efforts to limit Disney’s power as Florida’s largest employer.