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Texas, this is not the Innovation you're looking for...
This letter is a rebuke by Tech leader of the Texas GOP in general's latest policies
Link to tweet
Texas is known for technology and business innovation, but right now our state government is being innovative in all of the wrong ways by finding legal loopholes to skirt around national laws and suppress voters they don’t agree with. It’s not fair, it’s not democracy, and it’s not good for business.,,,,
Which is precisely why it is so troubling to us that in the past few months, our state government has been innovating in all of the wrong ways by finding legal loopholes to skirt national laws and suppress voters with whom they don’t agree. It’s not fair, it’s not democracy, and it’s not good for business.
In the past few months, Texas has seen disturbing new laws passed, and executive orders issued, that threaten to kill the Golden Goose of growth that we’ve been enjoying for so long. Laws that:
And it hasn’t taken long for our jobs — and wealth-creating Golden Goose to find itself in trouble. Just last week, the cloud-based software giant Salesforce, the largest Software as a Service company in the world, with a market capitalization of over $255 billion, announced it would pay relocation expenses for any of its nearly 1,000 Texas employees wanting to flee our state. Apple followed with an announcement that its health insurance would help cover costs for travel outside the state for any workers. We will see more announcements like this if we don’t change course.....
Join us as we support the Austin Tech Alliance and other organizations like it throughout Texas to get out the vote in 2022. Let’s put the right type of innovation back into Texas!
Which is precisely why it is so troubling to us that in the past few months, our state government has been innovating in all of the wrong ways by finding legal loopholes to skirt national laws and suppress voters with whom they don’t agree. It’s not fair, it’s not democracy, and it’s not good for business.
In the past few months, Texas has seen disturbing new laws passed, and executive orders issued, that threaten to kill the Golden Goose of growth that we’ve been enjoying for so long. Laws that:
Make it harder to vote, especially for lower income people and people of color
Circumvent national right to choose law by exploiting the most arcane legal loopholes
Set dangerous precedents by creating “citizen prosecutors”
Allow almost anyone to openly carry firearms without training or a permit
Target transgender children
Limit the powers of local governments to handle the pandemic in their own way
And it hasn’t taken long for our jobs — and wealth-creating Golden Goose to find itself in trouble. Just last week, the cloud-based software giant Salesforce, the largest Software as a Service company in the world, with a market capitalization of over $255 billion, announced it would pay relocation expenses for any of its nearly 1,000 Texas employees wanting to flee our state. Apple followed with an announcement that its health insurance would help cover costs for travel outside the state for any workers. We will see more announcements like this if we don’t change course.....
Join us as we support the Austin Tech Alliance and other organizations like it throughout Texas to get out the vote in 2022. Let’s put the right type of innovation back into Texas!
This is a good rebuke from the Texas business leaders that will be used in some fun ads