Elon Musk Warns Austin Against Becoming a ‘San Francisco Copycat’

[Elderberry]

Texas Scorecard by Jacob Asmussen November 1, 2021

“We rejected [San Francisco’s] inhumane camping and we don’t want SF lawlessness from defunding police on our streets either!”

As a pivotal election fight unfolds in Texas’ capital city, Tesla CEO and California refugee Elon Musk is urging Texans to prevent their state from decaying into the place he just fled.

“Austin should be its [own] city, not a San Francisco copycat,” Musk tweeted Sunday.

Musk’s comment was in response to a Fox News article about the current community debate in Austin over the “defund the police” movement.

At issue is the contentious November ballot question Proposition A, a citizen-organized public safety proposal that, if approved by voters, would reform and restore adequate police officers to the severely understaffed Austin Police Department.

Among several reforms, the proposition would enact the nationally recognized “Safe City Standard” in Austin to require two police officers per 1,000 citizens.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/elon-musk-warns-austin-against-becoming-a-san-francisco-copycat/

[Wingnut]

To late Elan.  Austin is the shithole of TX

[massadvj]

I just don't get all of these California-to-Austin transplants.  They flee the very predictable results of their politics, and then they impose their politics on the place that has succeeded by avoiding this particular brand of politics.