Mr. Chapek, the former CEO, said that the company shouldn’t become involved in politics, Disney employees excoriated his position, causing Disney executives to change their stance and urge Mr. DeSantis to not sign the bill.
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“Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was,” Mr. Chapek said in the memo reprinted March 11 in The Hollywood Reporter.
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