Red states lobby Elon Musk and Twitter to flee California

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has despatched red-state politicians in a frenzy as they urge him to ditch the social-media platform’s California headquarters for brand spanking new digs.

Pols from locations like Florida, Tennessee and Texas are lining as much as make the world’s richest man provides to relocate to their states.

“The invitation is open! Come on Elon,” Jacksonville, Florida Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted in an try and coax Musk to maneuver Twitter’s headquarters from San Francisco to the Sunshine State.

“FIN-tech is large in Jacksonville. We’re actually on the map of a number of corporations representing a number of staff. Quite a lot of entry to expertise within the space.”

Curry’s longshot invitation adopted an identical entreaty from Florida’s Chief Monetary Officer Jimmy Patronis, who tweeted a picture of an exquisite sundown at a seashore to sweeten his pitch.

“Hey ⁦@elonmusk⁩, that is what Group ⁦@Twitter⁩ might see ever [sic] night in case your HQ was within the Free State of Florida,” he wrote.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leveraged Musk’s prior relocation of his main corporations — together with Tesla and SpaceX — from California to the Lone Star State.

“Convey Twitter to Texas to hitch Tesla, SpaceX & the Boring firm,” Abbott tweeted to the tech titan after Twitter’s board introduced his controversial $44 billion deal.

To not be outdone, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn additionally urged Musk to spurn Silicon Valley.

“Elon ought to transfer Twitter HQ to the freedom-loving state of Tennessee!” Blackburn tweeted.

Twitter is presently headquartered in San Francisco and employs greater than 7,500 folks at workplaces throughout the nation and world.

Whereas Tesla nonetheless maintains a serious presence within the Bay Space, Musk moved the corporate’s headquarters to Austin in 2021.