ROBERT F. CROSKERY
Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army
1071 Celestial Street, Apartment 2104
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
rcroskery@gmail.com
(813)244-5580
April 18, 2022
Easter Sunday
Bob Chapek
Chief Executive Officer
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
and via email to
Robert.Chapek@disney.com
Dear Bob:
As I told our family friend John Pepper years ago, I LOVE Disney. At least, I used to love Disney. When I was on active duty at US Special Operations Command, I visited Disney World often. After I retired, I ran Adventures in Charity for many years, raising around 75k using Disney entertainers to support great charities e.g., the American Heart Association, the Actor’s Home, and various local animal organizations such as A Better Life Pet Rescue.
I have been an annual passholder for a decade, even though our homes are in Tennessee and Cincinnati. We own Disney stock. We subscribe to Disney Plus We have a Disney Visa. We own at FIVE Disney Vacation Club Resorts: Grand Floridian, Vero Beach, Saratoga Springs, Old Key West, and Bay Lake Towers. I have been responsible for events at Disney and affiliates making the company well north of six figures, (indirectly many times that). In short, for decades I have been a loyal and fervent fan BECAUSE Walt Disney promoted family values.
Also, I am very open minded. I have a gay stepson. I have many friends of different races. I do not CARE what you do in the bedroom.
However, I DO CARE, strongly, about TRUTH. I also care about children. Anyone trying to sexualize third graders and under has NO business in a classroom. NONE.
Not only has Disney chosen, unwisely, to go political, you have chosen the wrong side. And you are LYING, openly, about the bill. It does NOT say “don’t say gay.” It says don’t teach sex to someone else’s children in the classroom. Not gay sex. Not straight sex. Not bestiality. Not sex with unicorns. Because children DESERVE AN INNOCENT CHILDHOOD. Do you really need to learn that lesson? Really? Ok. You get to make choices and lead your company, even if your choices are INSANE. BUT I, too, get to make my own choices, as do all of your customers.
On December 31, 2022, if Disney has not abandoned its current idiotic course to sexualize kindergardeners, I will shake the dust from my feet of all things Disney. I will join the current exodus of horrified customers your company is justifiably experiencing. I will lead the chorus of voices seeking clean, healthy family values. And I will not look back, nor will I regret it. Life is filled with beautiful, healthy, lovely choices. You want to push lies and sex on kids? Whatever. I will keep the old Disney DVDs and remember the times I loved Disney. And I will keep faith with Walt’s memory, who would be disgusted with your current stance. But that is it. I am not alone. And the movement I intend to help lead will be epic. I promise. “The task I undertake will be a piece of cake”. As for this political suicide you are committing to please half of one percent? My advice is to “Let it Go…”.
Very respectfully,
s/Robert F. Croskery
Robert F. Croskery
Lt Colonel, US Army, retired
A former huge Disney Fan who detests liars and loves children. As do the vast majority of your fans and employees.
P.S. In the past several weeks, I have spoken to at least 20 cast members in Hilton Head and Orlando, including two who are quite famous. Your stance is universally detested. But employees dare not speak up because of the “woke” bullies squelching free speech and common sense in your company. Like the ones who got to you. So I am speaking for those bullied into silence. Clean up your act and go back to keeping children innocent. Please. Or, sadly, goodbye.
cc: BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Susan E. Arnold
Amy L. Chang
Maria Elena Lagomasin
Derica W. Rice
Mary T. Barra
Francis A. DeSouza
Calvin R. McDonald
Safra A. Catz
Michael B.G. Froman
Mark G. Parker
Parents, boycott Disney, hit them where it really hurts, in their bank
account. Stop taking vacations to Disney theme parts, do not go on
Disney cruses. Do not purchase Disney products. Do not let your
children watch Disney on TV. Do not expose your
children to these perverts.
Well said but very wasted effort. These Leftists don’t care if you kick them to the curb. They relish it because it allows them to play the victim, and more, the martyr. A letter like this one just more firmly entrenches the radicals and their mental disease.
I’d argue that this man places higher value upon his money spent. I do the same.
I don’t care what leftists think or care about. I just quit contributing to their disease. People tend to say ‘follow the money’. Well, dry up the money going to people who have ideas that you disagree with. If more people did this, a lot of problems would get solved. They can keep their victimhood. I can keep my money.
I don’t think you ought to treat your employees this way. I think it’s very wrong. I was planning on bringing my grandchildren to Disney. I am very saddened to hear what is going on. I hope to God you wake up.