Elon Thoreau Musk?
You find civil disobedience in the strangest places these days. Tim Higgins reports in the WSJ:
Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. is resuming production of cars at its lone U.S. assembly factory outside of San Francisco, in defiance of local authorities that have ordered the plant to remain shut down as part of the area’s efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The chief executive announced the plans on Twitter Monday: “I will be on the line with everyone else,” he wrote. “If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.”
The Silicon Valley car maker filed a lawsuit in federal court on Saturday asking a judge to allow it to reopen the factory, arguing in part that Alameda County, where the facility is located, had overstepped its power in blocking the operational resumption even as the governor started letting manufacturing in the state to restart last week. Mr. Musk blasted the move and said over the weekend he was going to move the Palo Alto-based company’s headquarters out of state.
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