When Elon Musk said Saturday he was finally fed up with California’s endless bureaucracy, power grabbing, and arbitrary rules on business reopening, Democrat California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego told him this:
F*ck Elon Musk.
— Lorena (@LorenaSGonzalez) May 10, 2020
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“F— Elon Musk,” was Gonzalez’s mature and articulate response on Twitter.
Musk had earlier in the day tweeted this over an Alameda county rule that prohibited him from reopening his Tesla factory, even though Governor Gavin Newsom had already said factories could reopen.
Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2020
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw had this to say:
Texas gets better every day. Good conservative principles make good governance, and attract the best and the brightest. The future is happening in Texas. https://t.co/ZuRzHvqqu5
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 9, 2020
“Texas gets better every day,” U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-TX, getting in on the act, wrote on Twitter, “Good conservative principles make good governance, and attract the best and the brightest. The future is happening in Texas.” Now that’s proper marketing.
In these economic times, with unemployment at depression levels and possibly getting worse, you’d think California would want to keep the jobs it has. But you would forget, the more people who are out of work are the more people who could be relying on government for the sustenance of their daily lives.
That gives state governments tremendous power over them and can addict those people to government largesse in lieu of going to work. No? One only has to look at the “The Great Society” and its multigenerational effects on inner city families to prove that point without a credible doubt. It’s a fact of political life: Democrats want more people in poverty and reliant on government programs so those people will for vote Democrats, who will continue those programs. In business it is called “vertical integration.”
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Dan Crenshaw and Texas aren’t the only people who want the jobs California rejects.
Nevada NEEDS these jobs most of all right now, @elonmusk. We would love to have you and Tesla HQ right here in the Battleborn State!
— Big Dan Rodimer for Congress NV-03 (@DanRodimer) May 9, 2020
Also on Saturday, Musk said on Twitter that he would move Tesla’s HQ and “future programs” to Texas and Nevada – saying that the company’s current factory in Fremont, CA, would remain open “dependent on how Tesla is treated in the future.”
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Tesla and Musk have filed a lawsuit against a CA county alleging, “Alameda County’s power grab not only defies the governor’s orders, but offends the federal and California constitution. The unelected & ignorant ‘Interim Health Officer’ of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense.”
He then tweeted, in another shot in a Saturday Twitter storm, “Tesla knows far more about what needs to be done to be safe than an (unelected) interim junior official in Alameda County.”
Alameda County spokeswoman Neetu Balram responded that the county has been working with Tesla in “a collaborative, good faith effort to develop and implement a safety plan that allows for reopening while protecting the health and well-being of the thousands of employees who travel to and from work at Tesla’s factory…The team at Tesla has been responsive to our guidance and recommendations, and we look forward to coming to an agreement on an appropriate safety plan very soon.” Apparently not, Miss Balram.
This seems like government spin to keep a horse in a barn, a horse that has already bolted for greener pastures. As this economic crisis continues, firms like Tesla and entrepreneurs like Musk will make common sense and fact-based decisions on how to best serve their businesses and employees. As such, California and states like it will lose jobs. Perhaps, given the points made above, that’s just what they want.
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This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 10, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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The Soviet Union didn’t “fall” and become part of history. It just simply moved to CA, where it was welcomed with opened arms by the leftist Dems…
I’m glad some people are waking up to the abuses of the democrat leaders in their states! That being said, those that are moving from California because of those issues….DON’T move & “Californicate” our state!?
I’m glad some people are waking up to the abuses of the democrat leaders in their states! That being said, those that are moving from California because of those issues….DON’T move & “Californicate” our state!?
I’m not a fan of Crenshaw, the Red Flag and TAPS Act-pusher lost a lot of my respect, but I do agree with him in that much that California’s a pit.
What’s amazing is that it is always the leftist dummies who use the grade 3 foul mouth language when they attempt to communicate. Having a mentality that is stuck in the toddler era is a requirement to be a demmie.
California shoots themselves in the foot weekly. It is all about the Democrat govt. of Calif making things worse so the people are dependent on govt for survival. This will work until the Calif govt goes bankrupt. You can bet that President Trump will not bail Calif. out. I don’t blame Tesla for moving out. Surprised that they set up shop in Calif in the first place. Dallas does not need Tesla as bad as West Texas, & I hope they settle around Amarillo.
California shoots themselves in the foot weekly. It is all about the Democrat govt. of Calif making things worse so the people are dependent on govt for survival. This will work until the Calif govt goes bankrupt. You can bet that President Trump will not bail Calif. out. I don’t blame Tesla for moving out. Surprised that they set up shop in Calif in the first place. Dallas does not need Tesla as bad as West Texas, & I hope they settle around Amarillo.
Gates has no power.
It is good to see people standing up to what is wrong and basically call out the deliberate assault on the US Constitution. This is not only a US problem, but people are starting to realize capitalism is not the bad part here. They have been regulating businesses to a never ending control of fines, etc. It is the philanthopiest that are the problem, pushing their agendas upon the World. These are the people that will be untouched and continue to do things normally like fly their jets, airplanes, use their helicopters, use their boats, live in luxurious homes, while calling single family dwellings unsustainable. They will continue to eat real meat and live up to their standards, while in toll throwing insects to the people to eat for protein (for real) and infiltrate test tube meat to the people, continue to push gmo’s and control our food supply. This is not in the name of a better World, it is in the name of Power and Control. These are the ones that have been untouchable and do not show better outcomes, but control the outcomes. Gates is so deep into pushing global control and being part, if not all control, using his money to basically pay to play, He never has been a doctor, but sure has the power over the people to call his shots.