Musk voted by mail in November 2016, the year Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, and in the November 2018 midterm election, the records show. Musk’s primary residence was in Los Angeles at the time.
The state records show that Musk had a sparse history of voting in California. During the 18 years he was eligible to vote there, he cast ballots in only those two elections. He became eligible to vote when he became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and cast his first ballot 14 years later, at age 45. He was actively registered to vote by August 2006, the records show.
Among the elections Musk skipped were presidential races in which Barack Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney were on the ballot, all primary elections and all local elections. California has an open primary system in which all registered voters are allowed to participate.
A fine, patriotic American who definitely belongs in Trump’s cabinet.
That was so stupid. I thought it was stupid at the time. Just make regular high speed rail. That’s all we need.
Some places have been trying to get high speed rail for decades - when I was in Florida in the 90s we even had it on a ballot and the public wanted it overwhelmingly. Then the politicians came back and said it’s too costly. Connecting some places would have paid off the construction multiple times and helped the state economy. I can only assume that there’s people invested in building and maintaining roads that have lobbyists to keep them the “preferred” transportation option.
I doubt it’s the road builders; it’s oil companies, and to a lesser extent car manufacturers
It’s always oil companies, isn’t it? If I get a time machine, I’m going back to the early Carboniferous period and introduce the missing bacteria that would have decayed plants and minimized fossil fuel buildup.
It is always the oil companies, yes. I’ll give you ten bucks if you can find a societal problem that I can’t trace back to oil companies. Not counting homophobia, that one is a conservative religious problem
But, don’t you see? His idea works in a vacuum!