Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R)
In the hours after the news of the Twitter purchase dropped, Abbott swung onto twitter to ask “@elonmusk. Bring Twitter to Texas to join Tesla, SpaceX & the Boring company.”
Abbott is apparently hoping the Tesla founder will do something similar to his previous move from California to Texas, centering all his businesses in the Lone Star state. Musk saved a lot of money in taxes thanks to the move away from California’s bay area. His operations there include the massive Gigafactory in Austin.
Twitter is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California. The new Twitter owner has previously complained about Silicon Valley’s dominance of the tech world, telling the Wall Street Journal in 2020 “Silicon Valley, or the Bay Area, has too much influence on the world, in my opinion.”
