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Anti-Elon Musk Rep. Andre Carson drives around in taxpayer-funded Tesla
« on: March 30, 2025, 12:34:32 pm »
 
Anti-Elon Musk Rep. Andre Carson drives around in taxpayer-funded Tesla
By Bill Clough
Published March 29, 2025, 9:59 a.m. ET
 
A “shameless” Indiana Democrat is so anti-Elon Musk he’s pushing legislation to rein in the billionaire’s power, yet drives around in a Tesla leased with taxpayer dough, records show.

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind) has denounced the Tesla founder as untrustworthy and last month introduced a bill in direct response to Musk and the “shameful invasion of Americans’ privacy.”

But Carson, 50, apparently has no qualms — at least until The Post inquired — about cruising around in one of Musk’s Teslas.

The latest House disbursement records show Carson claimed almost $11,000 of public money last year to pay Tesla Finance LLC for the lease of one of its cars.

Carson was one of more than 40 lawmakers last year who made use of a green scheme that allows them to access public money to lease a vehicle for use in their constituency so long as it is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as a “low greenhouse gas emitting vehicle,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/29/us-news/anti-elon-musk-rep-andre-driving-around-in-a-taxpayer-funded-tesla/
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Re: Anti-Elon Musk Rep. Andre Carson drives around in taxpayer-funded Tesla
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2025, 12:35:56 pm »
Of course he's shameless.  He's a democrat. :headbang:
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Re: Anti-Elon Musk Rep. Andre Carson drives around in taxpayer-funded Tesla
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2025, 05:09:39 pm »
C'mon man!

(It's getting harder for liberals to virtue signal out there...)
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