Elon Musk warns Austin: Don’t be a ‘San Francisco copycat’
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Twitter Sunday to warn Austin not to become too “a San Francisco copycat”.
Tesla will move its headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas.
Elon Musk announces that Tesla is moving its headquarters from California to Austin, Texas
“Austin should be his city, not a copycat of San Francisco,” Musk tweeted in response to a Fox News article about the Austin election.
Austin should be his city, not a copycat in San Francisco
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2021
Proposal A, on the ballot, would include increasing the Austin police force to at least two officers per 1,000, doubling the number of annual training for officers, increasing the recruitment of minorities through regulations, and requiring 35% of the officers shift through the municipal police issued.
If approved, Prop A is expected to cost between $ 271.5 million and $ 598.8 million over the next five years.
To learn more about the Austin special elections, KRON4’s sister broadcaster KXAN has compiled a list of everything that is on the ballot.
Musk previously hinted at what sparked the decision to move Tesla’s headquarters out of the Bay Area in the first place.
He tweeted “Exactly” in response to a Tesla blog post titled “Tesla Relocated Its Headquarters to Texas After Making an Express Offer from the California Congregational Woman.”
What made Elon Musk move the Tesla headquarters to Texas
The blog correlates that Tesla left the state around the time California MP Lorena S. Gonzalez tweeted “F ** k” Elon Musk in May 2020.
“California heavily subsidized a company that has always disregarded the safety and wellbeing of workers, participated in union busting and harassed officials. I probably could have expressed my frustration less aggressively. Of course, nobody would have cared if I had tweeted that, ”wrote Gonzalez on Twitter.
