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California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive.

As part of the settlement, the California Coastal Commission acknowledged its members made "improper" statements about Musk's political beliefs at a 2024 hearing on SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch program.

"The commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into account the perceived political beliefs, political speech or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers in considering any regulatory action concerning SpaceX," the commission said in federal court documents filed Tuesday.

SpaceX had sued the commission over its opposition to expanding the launch schedule for Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Southern California coast near Santa Barbara.

The company's lawsuit accused the coastal commission of engaging in political discrimination by refusing to sign off on a U.S. Air Force proposal to boost the number of launches at the busy base owned by the federal government.

milestogo (23,162 posts)

I'm really tired of rich white male victimhood.

Sick to death of it, in fact.

CousinIT (12,670 posts)
1. You and me both. SOOOOOO sick of it. n/t

Rebl2 (17,883 posts)
7. Sorry
Should have said parents. Had an old ex boyfriend and his mother thought he could do no wrong. He disrespected her and eventually me. His father wasn’t around much and didn’t have a lot to do with his upbringing. Oh and they were in no way rich.

orchlight (6,977 posts)
6. I'd hazard the fathers hold equitable culpability as well

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221207949

Do you ever wonder why so many Blue states refuse to hand over their voter rolls to the federal government?

After all, there is a federal law that requires certain measures to ensure ballot integrity, passed in the wake of the 2000 Florida debacle. It requires, among other things, that states clean their voter rolls of ineligible voters.

But these states refuse to do that, and they refuse to show that they aren't breaking federal law.
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Judicial Watch, an invaluable conservative organization, sued the State of Oregon for its practice of mailing ballots to its "eligible voters" without ensuring that the voters were, indeed, eligible. Rather than face the lawsuit and the inevitable discovery proving their intention to cheat, the state settled it, agreeing to clean 800,000 ineligible voters off its rolls.

800,000. In a state of 4.3 million people, with only 3.4 million registered voters. That's about one out of four voters on the rolls. And those are only the ones we know about.

They'll be hard pressed to identify a liberal who has been assassinated by a conservative. However, I can think of plenty of conservatives and liberals whom liberals have killed or attempted to kill.