Everyone in the conservative/libertarian media regularly blast liberal/progressive political leaders when they get things incorrect, and kid howdy pols like California’s Gavin Newsom sure do offer us a lot to deal with. There’s a flip side to that. Occasionally among these pols gets something right, and we need to observe that and toss them some congratulations when they do.
Case in point: California Governor Gavin Newsom, the exact same guy who damaged San Francisco before proceeding to trash California, has actually taken Elon Musk’s side in the tech magnate’s continuous battle with the California Coastal Commission over Musk’s SpaceX releases
Gov. Gavin Newsom is backing Elon Musk in the billionaire’s conflict with a California company that turned down a strategy to increase SpaceX’s rocket launches off the Pacific coast.
“I’m with Elon,” Newsom, a Democrat, stated in an interview late Thursday, after marketing for Vice President Kamala Harris in the battlefield state of North Carolina. “I didn’t like that.”
I need to provide Newsom some credit here. The California Coastal Commission’s rejection of Musk’s demand to increase the frequency of SpaceX launches was based upon naked partisan politics.
Musk took legal action against the California Coastal Commission on Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, declaring it “taken part in naked political discrimination” when commissioners mentioned his assistance for previous President Donald Trump inturning down a Department of Defense proposition to broaden the variety of SpaceX launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
“Look, I’m not assisting the legal case,” Newsom acknowledged. He included, “You can’t raise that specific level of politics.”
Newsom suggested he broadly concurred with the claim which the independent firm need to have restricted its argument to the benefits of the authorization instead of take part in a conversation of Musk’s political activities.
He’s appropriate; the Commission ought to base its choice on the benefits of the application alone. Minor bureaucrats, given, are understood for precisely this type of naked partisanship, and this case might need to work its method through numerous layers of courts before it’s chosen, however it appears that Elon Musk may be the guy with the time and resources to press it through.
Formerly on RedState:
Why Did the California Coastal Commission Deny SpaceX Permission to Launch? ‘Orange Man Bad’
SpaceX Files Blistering Lawsuit Against California Coastal Commission Alleging Political Retaliation
Newsom has actually been real to form in his regular clashes with Elon Musk on other problems
Newsom has actually sparred with Musk on X over whatever from the state’s securities for transgender and gay trainees in schools to a costs the guv signed prohibiting political deepfakes. Musk reacted to a step banning AI-generated material before the November election by describing Newsom as a wicked comic character. “The Joker supervises,” Musk composed on X, duplicating the insult in an interview.
There’s a huge distinction in between tossing somebody like Gavin Newsom some hesitant congratulations for being the blind hog that discovers an acorn, and supporting him in any other method – consisting of with our votes. Newsom might be taking the ideal side here in this specific circumstances – in the meantime, a minimum of – however that in no chance lessens the damage his “progressive” policies have actually done to San Francisco or the once-and-former Golden State.
He’s been a catastrophe for California, and while we are now involved the governmental contest in between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, we need to be forewarned that Newsom likely has his eyes on the Oval Office, in which workplace he would be simply as huge a catastrophe as he has actually remained in California.
In this one circumstances, he got it. The California Coastal Commission’s rejection of Musk’s application on blatantly political premises is incorrect, and can’t be permitted to stand.
