DeSantis creating a "big target" with anti-gay message - Bednar | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

DeSantis creating a "big target" with anti-gay message - Bednar

July 11, 2023 Orlando Sentinel

Jenna Bednar, Orlando Sentinel: Jenna Bednar, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, said DeSantis’ battle with Disney, in particular, looks from outside Florida to be a “vindictive” attack on a company that took a stance on LGBTQ issues that he didn’t like.

“At a time when most American corporations are at least talking the talk of diversity and inclusion, for him to be not just taking a position against it, but then acting in a way that would undermine a thriving business that is so important to the local economy, it feels to me like an enormous target,” she said. “And something the Democrats would love to run against.”