{"id":549,"date":"2023-06-16T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-06-16T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:07:37","slug":"politico-newsom-talks-wealth-with-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Newsom talks wealth with Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This conversation is really revealing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/em> writes: But none of that was brought up on Wednesday. Musk cheerfully noted that Newsom was \u201cone of the first to buy a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2007-tesla-roadster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla Roadster\u00a0<\/a>back in the day\u201d \u2014 noting he would have had to put down $100,000 to reserve one in 2007. That also means Newsom would have been one of the first Californians to buy an electric vehicle. According to data from the state\u2019s energy commission, only 112 zero-emission vehicles had been sold by 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat was a healthy deposit you had to make,\u201d Newsom said, joking he made the purchase \u201cback when I had money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat was a lot of money in 2007,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still a lot of money,\u201d Newsom replied. \u201cTrust me, brother, you haven\u2019t looked at my salary \u2026 We had about the same net worth back then, 20 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/02\/22\/newsom-musk-recharge-bromance-announcement-00084060\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/02\/22\/newsom-musk-recharge-bromance-announcement-00084060<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This conversation is really revealing! Politico writes: But none of that was brought up on Wednesday. Musk cheerfully noted that Newsom was \u201cone of the first to buy a\u00a0Tesla Roadster\u00a0back in the day\u201d \u2014 noting he would have had to put down $100,000 to reserve one in 2007. That also means Newsom would have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,40,2,181,179,180],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elon-musk","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-newsom","tag-salary","tag-tesla","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}