Different than in most states politicians in California seem to be intent on carrying on with economic stupidity … driving jobs and consequently taxpayers out of California. To refresh everyone’s memory back in 2020, a brash statement by a local Democratic state politician, Elena Gonzalez, helped drive Elon Musk’s Tesla out of California.
From the Daily Beast in October, 2021:
Tesla founder Elon Musk indicated Friday that his decision to relocate the company to Texas was prompted by a California lawmaker’s mean tweet. In May 2020, when the pandemic was raging and Musk opened Tesla’s factory in defiance of local restrictions, California Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzalez tweeted “F*k Elon Musk.”
In October, 2021 shortly after Musk announced the move, a Tesla fan site tweeted a blog post titled, “Tesla Moved its HQ to Texas Following Explicit Offer from California Assemblywoman,” to which Musk replied, “Exactly.”
With thousands of jobs and thus millions in taxes lost to Texas largely in part to that gaffe by Elena Gonzalez, a Democrat, one would think that the California Democrats would have gotten smarter.
But they haven’t !
From Townhall:
“Congratulations to the leftist radicals doing their best to run California into the ground, you’ve finally gone far enough to officially drive space exploration innovator and media mogul Elon Musk to move his companies SpaceX and X out of the Golden State and into the welcoming arms of the great State of Texas — along with their significant economic impact.
The ‘final straw’ according to Musk was California Governor Gavin Newsom signing a bill into law that prohibits schools from implementing rules that require parents to be notified if their child begins identifying as transgender.”
From BlazeMedia:
The law, AB 1955, first introduced by gay Assemblyman Christopher Ward (D) and championed by the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, prohibits school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools from introducing or enforcing rules, regulations, or policies that require employees to disclose to parents “any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”
A recent tweet from Elon Musk:
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”
As a result, Musk said SpaceX and X would move headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase in Texas.
Ouch! … I never thought that I would say that Gavin Newsom is as clueless as Lorena Gonzalez, but similar to Ms. Gonzalez, Newsom’s economic stupidity will be felt long after he is out of office!
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