Republican California state legislator introduces bill to overturn California Coastal Commission’s effort to block SpaceX
Wants to be a dictator
Republican state assemblyman Bill Essayli has now introduced a bill that would overturn the decision by the California Coastal Commission to reject SpaceX’s request to increase its launch rate at Vandenberg spaceport, a decision the commissioners readily and publicly stated was made not to protect the state’s beaches (the commission’s prime function) but because they did not like Musk’s political positions.
“AB 10 will reverse the politically-motivated decision by the California Coastal Commission to restrict SpaceX launches for the Space Force due to their hatred of Elon Musk. This dangerous and illegal decision threatens our national security and erodes the public trust we place in our officials to act in the best interest of the people — not politics,” Essayli said in a statement this week.
SpaceX has already sued the commission and its commissioners for violating Musk’s first amendment rights as well as exceeding their statutory authority.
The bottom line however is that the commission’s decision carries no legal weight. Vandenberg is an federally operated military base, and thus this state commission has no authority to dictate what happens there. The Space Force has simply tried to work with it in the past.
Thus, if the commission’s fangs are not pulled by Essayli’s legislation as well as SpaceX’s lawsuit, the military will likely just ignore it.
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Wants to be a dictator
Republican state assemblyman Bill Essayli has now introduced a bill that would overturn the decision by the California Coastal Commission to reject SpaceX’s request to increase its launch rate at Vandenberg spaceport, a decision the commissioners readily and publicly stated was made not to protect the state’s beaches (the commission’s prime function) but because they did not like Musk’s political positions.
“AB 10 will reverse the politically-motivated decision by the California Coastal Commission to restrict SpaceX launches for the Space Force due to their hatred of Elon Musk. This dangerous and illegal decision threatens our national security and erodes the public trust we place in our officials to act in the best interest of the people — not politics,” Essayli said in a statement this week.
SpaceX has already sued the commission and its commissioners for violating Musk’s first amendment rights as well as exceeding their statutory authority.
The bottom line however is that the commission’s decision carries no legal weight. Vandenberg is an federally operated military base, and thus this state commission has no authority to dictate what happens there. The Space Force has simply tried to work with it in the past.
Thus, if the commission’s fangs are not pulled by Essayli’s legislation as well as SpaceX’s lawsuit, the military will likely just ignore it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
What is the sound of a head exploding? Ask a woke, America-hating Jacobin lefty who owns a Tesla.
Pity the woke Tesla owners who still like their cars but must now put anti-Musk* bumper stickers on their vehicles lest they be mistaken for MAGA conservatives.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tesla-owners-turn-against-musk-i-m-embarrassed-driving-this-car-around
*Musk, according to this post, is now seen by such people as a “billionaire supervillain” (Lex Luthor?) who is guilty of “amplifying horrible people and silencing others.” Plus, he has those horrible, planet-killing rockets. Sigh.
Happily — and just in time — Jaguar has announced its new “copy nothing” line of electric vehicles that ought to appeal to exactly those Tesla owners who are now ashamed to be seen in one.
https://www.wired.com/story/jaguar-finally-reveals-its-all-electric-type-00/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng
Yes, an EV that the woke elites will be *proud* to be seen in.
Further proof, if needed, that the Market System *works*, even for insane people with too much money in their pockets.
Which is more depressing—being a fan of SLS or being a California Republican.
You bring the ball gag–I’ll get the whip.
Robert wrote: “Thus, if the commission’s fangs are not pulled by Essayli’s legislation as well as SpaceX’s lawsuit, the military will likely just ignore it.”
However, if the commission is allowed to get away with this clearly illegal and immoral travesty of a ruling, then no Californian’s freedoms are safe from the state government. Assemblyman Bill Essayli is correct that this further destroys the trust We the People have that our government rules in a fair and impartial manner. Worse, that our government rules over us, not serves us.
Government has three purposes:
1. Defend its citizens from all enemies, foreign and domestic
2. Provide an indifferent third party to peaceably resolve disputes
3. Stay out of the citizens’ way
“The job of governments is to provide a clear and just legal framework for its citizens to follow, without telling those citizens what to do each step of the way.” — Robert Zimmerman Conscious Choice page 232
The Preamble to the Constitution outlines exactly how the Founding Fathers expected the U.S. government to achieve these three purposes:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Here is how these concepts fit into the three purposes:
We the People of the United States, in Order to …
1. insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
2. establish Justice,
3. form a more perfect Union, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
… do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
The state known for “Poop Maps” allows a “commission” of loud mouth butt-hurt morons to try to stop national security/military missions that are helping millions (including those that have fled for more rational states). MDS is as real as TDS and just as destructive to left wing “sanity”. And will likely only continue to de-populate the state while getting slapped down very publicly on (if not before) January 20, 2025.
Wait until they find out about Starship launches…