California Mayor Slams Elon Musk Over Tax Breaks, Says He 'Decided to Take That Money and Run'San Francisco Mayor London Breed was not thrilled with the billionaire's criticism of the city.
ByEmily Rella•
Elon Musk has made a bit of a habit of upsetting people in positions of power, and the mayor of San Francisco's latest comments on the billionaire were not exactly flattering.
Mayor London Breed spokewithBloombergabout the city's future plans to move away from its reputation as the tech hub of the country, noting that the shift to remote work and flexibility after the pandemic has made this pivot somewhat inevitable.
One company that has a large presence in the city is Twitter, the social media platform that Musk is involved in a complicated legal battle with after heattempted to back outof his $44 billion bid to purchase the company before reportedlydeciding to proceedwith the purchase, after all, earlier this month.
Musk has been critical of Twitter's office space in San Francisco, suggesting that the building be converted into a homeless shelter after pointing out that many employees don't go into the office.
The concept of remote work is something Musk hasstrongly discouragedwithin Tesla, which moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas away from San Francisco.
Noting this, Breed referred to Musk as "the person who got a ton of tax breaks in California and decided to take that money and run," before making another dig that she hopes that "those who are critical would focus on trying to be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem."
Safe to say Musk won't be receiving any tax breaks in the city any time soon.
Musk has continued to poke to bear amid the Twitter battle after responding to Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy on the platformwho asked thebillionaire to "please fix these bots" after claiming that he was "getting bot'd to death."
Musk's primary reason for trying to back out of the Twitter purchase in the first place wasdue to claimsthat Twitter was not being forthright and honest about the number of bot and spam accounts currently operating on the platform.
"I have a plan," Muskcrypticallyresponded to Portnoy, who then said, "Thank God."
Will it ever end?
Twitterwas downjust over 21% in a one-year period as of Tuesday morning.