Twitter moving to Florida? Here’s what Gov. DeSantis said about it

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will not be as keen because the state’s chief monetary officer to carry Twitter’s headquarters to the Sunshine State.

After it was introduced that Elon Musk was in a deal to buy the social media platform in a $44-billion deal, Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis has begun a web-based marketing campaign to encourage the billionaire businessman to carry Twitter’s headquarters to Florida.

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“Be part of me in inviting @elonmusk to maneuver @Twitter to the freest state within the nation! Florida would profit the corporate as a complete—we have now no state earnings tax and the proper enterprise local weather. It’s time to ebook a a technique (SIC) ticket,” Patronis stated in a tweet.

Patronis even launched an internet site the place Floridians can add their names to the refrain calling for the transfer from San Francisco.

Nonetheless, the governor will not be on board with the plan.

“In Florida, I believe we’ve executed very nicely, notably over the previous couple of years, attracting companies which can be producing issues,” DeSantis stated. “We’ve labored actually arduous on vocational and profession training — importing some tech firm from San Francisco has not been excessive on our checklist. I believe that what occurs is that they’ll have a tendency to come back in, they drive up the price of residing for everyone else and OK, yeah, they take pleasure in our decrease taxes however you already know, what are they actually offering?”

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Regardless of that, the governor did specific his assist for Musk’s buy of the platform.

“I believe that that platform has been used actually as a instrument to implement narratives and to stifle dissent when it was born to be an open platform,” DeSantis stated. “We really had our State Board of Administration (write) letters to Twitter’s board of administrators earlier than they accepted the supply after they regarded like they had been making an attempt to fend it off, saying, ‘Look, you guys could make enterprise judgments, however you’ll be able to’t veto a fantastic supply simply since you don’t like Elon or since you’re fearful that he might open up Twitter.’”

DeSantis additionally acknowledged Musk’s contributions to the state’s aerospace trade from SpaceX, however the governor finally stated he isn’t inquisitive about welcoming Twitter to Florida.

“By way of bringing Twitter from San Francisco to Florida, that’s not one thing that I’m advocating,” he stated.