Much of Brownsville seems enamored with Elon Musk, CEO/owner of SpaceX, who recently offered to gift Brownsville $30 million without much specificity.
It's easy to forget that Musk was given millions of dollars in incentives to build his rocket-launching facility adjacent to Boca Chica Beach. He promised hundreds of jobs and when they didn't materialize, he renegotiated the original agreement, scaling down his job creation agreement, yet failed to fulfill the new agreement.
His promise to close Boca Chica to public access "a couple days a month" turned out, also, to be a lie.
Now, he's slowly forcing out longtime residents of Boca Chica Village, with County Judge Eddie Trevino at his side, saying that eminent domain or forcibly taking properties is "probably a distinct possibility."
Musk wants to replace Boca Chica Village with Starbase, his own town with high end accommodations and personal profit.
As for the risks to locals his enterprise creates, Musk arrogantly states: "We've got a lot of land with nobody around. So, if it blows up, it's cool."
Some of our city officials have been in love with Elon Musk from Day 1, fawning over his poetic promise: "From thence to Mars and hence the Stars."
Those hollow words come from someone with a history of making promises and not keeping them.
Trey Mendez says Musk has brought 1600 jobs to Brownsville. Is that true?
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