California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday night sided with Elon Musk, after a California agency rejected a Defense Department request to increase the amount of SpaceX launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Musk sued the California Coastal Commission (CCC) on Tuesday after it cited his political activities as a reason to reject the request. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and has been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump since the assassination attempt against him this July.
Newsom admitted that he largely agreed with the lawsuit, which alleges that the commission “engaged in naked political discrimination” by bringing politics into the decision, and said the rejection should have been confined to the merits of the request instead of politics.
“I’m with Elon. … I didn’t like that,” Newsom told Politico in North Carolina on Thursday. “Look I’m not helping the legal case, [but] you can’t bring up that explicit level of politics … These are friends of mine that said that.”
“These are good commissioners. But you got to call balls and strikes. And trust me, I’m not big on the Elon Musk bandwagon right now. So that’s me calling balls and strikes,” he explained. […]
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