And they strike again...
The infamous California Coastal Commission has their panties in a wad again...
Elon Musk’s tweets about the presidential election and spreading falsehoods about Hurricane Helene are endangering his ability to launch rockets off California’s central coast.
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the Air Force’s plan to give SpaceX permission to launch up to 50 rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.
“Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom said at the meeting in San Diego.
Full article, HERE from Politico.
I've had 'some' experience with the CCC in the past, and it wasn't fun. They 'hate' the military and anything to do with the Navy operating 'anywhere' off California...
And because they are appointed, they operate on feelz a lot... So if they feelz slighted by anyone not kowtowing to them, they tend to...react negatively. Mostly because they know no one in the California power structure is going to override them.
And as usual, they blame, in this case, the USAF for 'not complying' with their wishes...
Sigh...
Lets use our feels to stiflile national defense and economic development in California, which by the way generates tax revenue for the state. Musk should and will sue the shit out of them. The USAF needs to declare theat the land on post is "federal" and exempt from the whims of the nanny state. If the California patsies don't like it... I bet Texas would like to have the launch complex moved to it's tax friendly and business friendly environment. It only took 40 years of one party rule to run off major industry and the military... would love to see the California commies try to run off the military footprint in San Diego... people write dytopionan fiction about this stuff...
My response to the CCC would most likely be unprintable.
Except for "...and the horse you rode in on."