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“...if we (Disney) have the responsibility of putting the (highway) interchanges and things like that..It would just crater us financially.”
Michael Eisner, Disney CEO, The Washington Post, December 1993.
Eisner alone, the above-quoted CEO of Disney, had a personal income of $176 million last year. Obviously, the financing of Disney’s needed infrastructure at $60 million would not “crater” Disney’s CEO financially.
On Jan. 20, Governor Allen and 140 delegates will convene to decide whether or not to approve Disney’s request for funding through statebacked (taxpayer-backed) bonds. Orlando and Anaheim have experienced the greed, the lies, the subterfuge, the hardball tactics, and have suffered the consequences.
Call and write the governor and your elected state legislators (central FAX: 804-786-6310) to tell them to say no to subsidizing a private multi-billion dollar corporation with taxpayer funds; tell them to say no to risky taxpayer-backed bonds ’(loans) to benefit a development company with a net worth of over $22 billion. If Disney wants to cash in on the history and beauty of our countryside, let them pay the full price of admission.
Let’s let Eisner know that we may be country folk, but we ain’t complete yokels.
KATHLEEN HIGGINS
The Plains
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