Tech journalist Kara Swisher asked California Governor Gavin Newsom in September last year about the risk of businesses and residents leaving for greener pastures.
Despite the burden of rising state taxes, traffic, fire seasons, power shortages and a harsh reputation for being unfriendly, Newsom offered a terribly quiet response. “I’ve experienced this pressure and turmoil,” he told Swisher. “And I think Governor Brown, the former Governor [Jerry] The best Brown said, ‘Where the hell are he going to go? ‘
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That would be like the philosophy of an unscrupulous or at least negligent spouse: C’mon, you were never so good. But within a few months, the governor discovered that the state of Texas was “where it was,” for many people.
A CNN.com article in early December had the headline, “The company that literally started Silicon Valley is moving to Texas.” That was Hewlett Packard, the start of the garage.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked about an exodus from the Golden State, saying, “Where is the … [+]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced his own plans to move to Texas, calling California “somber” in its efforts to work with businesses. And after tech giant Oracle announced it was moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas Governor Greg Abbott crow on Twitter that “Texas is truly a land of business, jobs and opportunity.”
But the coup de grace came with the news that “Granddaddy of Them All,” a Rose Bowl game, would be played in Texas today instead of at his 119-year-old Pasadena home. The revival of this California tradition happened dramatically because of Covid-19’s hyper-vigilant policy. New York Times writer Billy Witz said, “The Rose Competition appealed to the state to allow live spectators – it recommended 400 family members to be admitted to the 90,888-seat stadium – but that refuse. ”
And so the game has moved to Arlington, where a full 16,000 people will be allowed to attend.
California political and civic figures would dispel the notion that this suggests something ominous. It would be said to be a once-in-a-century event driven by a pandemic. However, even when the pandemic comes down, the decision-making and flexible style of California leaders will remain.
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Here, a state known for its radical free spirit becomes puritanical. Proud Californians strongly defend their pandemic pandemic approach as “science-led,” as opposed to the less restrictive approaches they prefer to criticize in states like Texas and Florida. But with the overall shifts in these states, California leaders may show some humility rather than accepting that their Covid-19 strain restraints are better than other states ’balancing tactics. competitive social needs.
California’s problems are largely due to incompetence and deafness in their Republican Party in recent years, as its rapid decline has led to the state’s progressive leaders now receiving very little of any attack against the weakest views.
That’s why the state could pursue a high-speed rail project, run up a big bill, and not show much for it.
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That’s why Los Angeles leaders see their homelessness problem in purely ideological terms, and as a result come up with costly, quixotic plans that seek to address inequality. income but that solves nothing.
That’s why Newsom can see California’s wildfires as an opportunity to hit an ideological drum on how the state and country need to do more about climate change. That’s fine and true, but it leaves the job of managing California’s forests possible and finding softer ways to increase housing supply in a state notorious for NIMBYism.
Comedian and podcaster actor Adam Carolla has spent hours incessantly during the Newsom pandemic, LA mayor Eric Garcetti and other California politicians. Carolla and a parade of callers to his podcast talk about plans, both short-term and long-term, to finally leave for states with more capable and less brutal governments (even if California has plans to continue stripping cash from the wallets of those who leave).
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To be sure, many politicians and progressive California residents are quick to offer to pack their bags or help pay for one-way outbound tickets. The problem, however, is that once the state loses ideological diversity, those who stay behind will be able to accelerate their utopian projects, perhaps with results that are getting worse.
“Where the hell are he going to go to?” “There seem to be real alternatives to the Golden State. His leaders would do well to bring this about and change.