Gov. Gavin Newsom has sided with billionaire Elon Musk after a California agency rejected a plan to increase SpaceX rocket launches in Southern California.
“I’m with Elon,” Newsom, a Democrat, told Politico in an interview on Oct. 17. He made the comments after appearing at a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris in North Carolina, a battleground state in the 2024 presidential election.
“I didn’t like that,” said Newsom of the way the California Coastal Commission, which oversees the use of land and water within the state’s more than 1,000 miles of coastline, handled the proposal.
After the commission’s rejection on Oct. 10, Musk called it “incredibly inappropriate” and pledged SpaceX would file a lawsuit over the decision. The company followed through and sued the commission in a Los Angeles federal court on Oct. 15….