Terrel L. Shields
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A week after Elon Musk and his company SpaceX made stock market history, a six-year-old social media post from a leading California liberal should be making the Golden State shudder.
On June 11, SpaceX went public, bringing in a staggering $75 billion -- the largest amount of money in history, by far, for an initial public offering, as NPR reported. It not only made Musk the world's first trillionaire, but also brought new attention to the fact that Musk and his operations were invited very strongly to leave California six years ago by a Democratic lawmaker -- an invitation Musk accepted.
Back in 2020, as The Hill reported at the time, Musk was publicly furious about the extent of California's lockdown policies amid COVID. He threatened to move the headquarters of Tesla -- his electric car company -- out of the state. Any sane politician, seeing the potential that a huge employer -- not to mention a generational genius -- was considering leaving, would have fought tooth and nail to find a way to prevent that from happening.
But Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, then a member of the California Assembly, had a different take. A Democrat -- naturally -- she responded with a three-word post on the platform then known as Twitter that could well be the most expensive social media post in history. Her exact quote? **** Elon Musk... guess who F'd who. The huge loss in taxable base is a windfall for Texas. Thank you Ms. Fletcher.
On June 11, SpaceX went public, bringing in a staggering $75 billion -- the largest amount of money in history, by far, for an initial public offering, as NPR reported. It not only made Musk the world's first trillionaire, but also brought new attention to the fact that Musk and his operations were invited very strongly to leave California six years ago by a Democratic lawmaker -- an invitation Musk accepted.
Back in 2020, as The Hill reported at the time, Musk was publicly furious about the extent of California's lockdown policies amid COVID. He threatened to move the headquarters of Tesla -- his electric car company -- out of the state. Any sane politician, seeing the potential that a huge employer -- not to mention a generational genius -- was considering leaving, would have fought tooth and nail to find a way to prevent that from happening.
But Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, then a member of the California Assembly, had a different take. A Democrat -- naturally -- she responded with a three-word post on the platform then known as Twitter that could well be the most expensive social media post in history. Her exact quote? **** Elon Musk... guess who F'd who. The huge loss in taxable base is a windfall for Texas. Thank you Ms. Fletcher.
