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Newsom Says ‘I’m With Elon’ in California Commission’s SpaceX Dispute

Elon Musk recently sued the state’s Coastal Commission after its commissioners rejected a proposal to increase SpaceX rocket launches.
Newsom Says ‘I’m With Elon’ in California Commission’s SpaceX Dispute
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a forum in New York City on Sept. 21, 2022. Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies
Kimberly Hayek
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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.
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.