This article comes from Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel.
Like scores of other businesses and interest groups across the state, Walt Disney World is cozying up to incoming Florida Gov. Rick Scott just before Scott is sworn into office next month.
Disney this month cut a $25,000 check to Scott’s inaugural committee to help the Republican governor-elect pay for a series of public and private events he is planning to commemorate his Jan. 4 swearing-in as Florida’s 45 governor.
Scott’s inaugural committee has raised approximately $2.5 million so far, more than twice as much as outgoing Gov. Charlie Crist spent on his own inauguration in 2006. Universal Orlando gave the committee $25,000 in November. Click here to see the full list of contributors.
Disney spent heavily to defeat Scott this summer when the former healthcare executive was seeking the Republican nomination, opting to back Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum instead. But the giant resort immediately got behind Scott for the general election, in which Scott narrowly defeated Democratic Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink.
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