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At Walt Disney World in Florida, Sanders noted, the company replaced 250 workers with low-wage foreign workers through H1-B visas. Sanders dings Disney near Disneyland

Bernie Sanders spent his Tuesday morning campaigning mere miles from Disneyland, a.k.a. "The Happiest Place on Earth." But the Democratic candidate devoted a portion of his speech to supporters in Anaheim, California, ripping into The Walt Disney Company, or the "Disney corporation," as he referred to it, for unfairly compensating its workers and representing another corporation benefiting from an unjustly rigged economy.

Much as he has with his frequent invocations of Wal-Mart as an example of a rigged economic system, Sanders stared right at the Dumbo in the room.

"Let me just start off and be very blunt. We’re here in Anaheim. Everybody knows the major economic force here in Anaheim is the Disney corporation. Anybody here work for Disney?" Sanders asked. The crowd cheered. Sanders then asked, "Anybody here making a living wage from Disney?" The audience responded with a louder, "No!"

Sanders then boasted, "I’m probably the only politician to come to Anaheim and say this. I use Disney not to pick on Disney but as an example of what we are talking about when we talk about a rigged economy."

"Here in Anaheim and the surrounding areas, Disney pays its workers wages that are so low that many of them are forced to live in motels because they can't afford a decent place to live," Sanders said, as the crowd booed. "Meanwhile Disney made a record-breaking profit of nearly $3 billion last quarter." (Disney's $2.9 billion profit came in the first fiscal quarter of 2016 reported in January; in its most recent report of the second quarter on May 10, the company reported earnings of $2.1 billion.)

At Walt Disney World in Florida, Sanders noted, the company replaced 250 workers with low-wage foreign workers through H-1B visas. "Meanwhile the CEO of Disney made $46.5 million in total compensation last year," Sanders said, as the crowd booed again. "That is what we're talking about in a rigged economy."

Disney CEO Robert Iger made $46.5 million in 2014, however; in 2015, he earned a total of $44.9 million.

"Mr. Sanders clearly doesn’t have his facts right," Suzi Brown, a spokeswoman for Disneyland said in a statement to POLITICO. "The Disneyland Resort generates more than $5.7 billion annually for the local economy, and as the area’s largest employer has added more than 11,000 jobs over the last decade, a 65% increase. These numbers don’t take into account our $1 billion expansion to add a Star Wars-themed land, which will create thousands of additional jobs across multiple sectors."

The company also contested Sanders' remarks about laying off workers at Walt Disney World. “Here are the facts: We rehired more than 100 people impacted by our Parks IT reorganization, have hired more than 170 other US IT workers roles and are currently recruiting candidates to fill more than 100 IT positions," a Disney spokesman said.

