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Tesla house owners’ anti-Musk protests ripple throughout the Bay Space

Editorial Board Published February 16, 2025
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Waves of protesters parked themselves exterior dozens of Tesla shops within the Bay Space on Saturday in protest in opposition to Elon Musk’s current actions on Capitol Hill that embody spearheading an company that helps cuts to range funding and probably permitting entry to personal taxpayer knowledge.

Musk was lately appointed as a “special government employee” by President Trump, and tasked with main the White Home’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) to assist cut back federal spending.

Some DOGE supporters see its efforts as a option to monitor spending at a time when the nation’s federal debt is at an all-time excessive. Nevertheless, the duty power’s efforts have additionally raised alarms from lawmakers after its workers gained entry to the Treasury Division’s fee system, which shops private knowledge for a lot of People.

Musk’s recognition with the Bay Space’s deep blue residents has soured in consequence. From Berkeley to San Jose, a whole lot of protesters mobilized exterior Tesla showrooms to denounce Musk and name for a boycott of Tesla’s merchandise.

In Santana Row in San Jose, a dozen protesters congregated on the Tesla retailer waving selfmade indicators mocking Musk and his involvement with the federal government.

As two safety guards stood by the shop entrance, Los Gatos resident Debbie Lowe planted herself subsequent to them, bearing an indication that learn “Don the Con and F-Elony Musk” with a caricature of Musk and Trump.

“Never in a million years did I think our country would go down this way,” she mentioned.

Alongside her, fellow Los Gatos resident Karla Albright carried a poster with the textual content, “Down with DOGE” and “Dump Tesla.” Albright mentioned she was once a supporter of Tesla and liked the idea of electrical automobiles. She stopped supporting Musk when it grew to become clear the tycoon “was getting too wealthy, and becoming corrupted,” she mentioned.

“When a single human being has more money than a government, there is something grossly wrong,” she mentioned.

Albright helps lead the Los Gatos chapter of Collectively We Will and Indivisible, two nationwide political motion and civic engagement organizations with native representatives. Each actions helped arrange comparable protest in opposition to Tesla nationwide.

Later Saturday, in Sunnyvale, greater than 80 individuals lined up exterior the Tesla retailer on El Camino Actual. They stood on the sidewalks and lawns, waving posters, beating drums and cheering on automobiles that honked in assist.

Those that selected to drive onto Tesla’s parking zone have been met with jeers. “You can do better,” one protester yelled, whereas one other added, “There are other choices.”

Sunnyvale resident Bruce Hahne, one of many organizers for the protest, mentioned Musk will not be an elected official, and has no enterprise having a lot energy within the authorities.

“It’s an administrative coup. We can’t allow that,” he mentioned. “Buying a Tesla is supporting Musk’s corporation, and supporting the coup.”

As Hahne dealt with out fliers criticizing Tesla and watched the sidewalk flood with like-minded protesters, he waved his “Stop Elon Coup” poster towards them.

“Elon Musk does not run the government,” he mentioned, “We the people run it,”

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