Corporate conventions flee Florida over ‘openly hostile’ political climate: report. Credit: SnapSaintPete / Shutterstock

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ discriminatory policies and culture war tactics are starting to negatively impact the Sunshine State financially, Orlando Sentinel reports.

Two organizations recently decided to remove upcoming conventions from Florida, which Orlando Sentinel notes is “the latest economic blow to the region, coming in the wake of Walt Disney Co.’s decision to drop plans for a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in Orlando with 2,000 high-paying jobs.”

This comes after the NAACP issued a travel advisory last month saying, “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”

California-based AnitaB.org, a technology group of female and nonbinary employees, boasts around 16,000 attendees for its annual Grace Hopper Celebration — usually held in Orlando — which is lauded the “world’s largest gathering of women in computing.”

The group emphasized, “[W]e will not return until this legislation is overturned, and the state becomes more welcoming to all,” attributing its reason for relocation to “laws that banned […]

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