{"id":1458016,"date":"2022-04-29T11:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458016"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:59:48","slug":"rancher-offers-elon-musk-100-acres-to-move-twitters-headquarters-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rancher-offers-elon-musk-100-acres-to-move-twitters-headquarters-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancher Offers Elon Musk 100 Acres to Move Twitter\u2019s Headquarters to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Francher-offers-elon-musk-100-acres-to-move-twitters-headquarters-to-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An Austin rancher has offered to donate free land to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> for the use of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-twitter\">Twitter<\/a> headquarters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a>, if he chooses to relocate the company\u00a0from San Francisco to the Lone Star State,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/austonia.com\/twitter-headquarters-move-texas\">reported<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/austonia.com\/twitter-headquarters-move-texas\">\u00a0Austonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The board of Twitter accepted Musk\u2019s deal to buy the social media platform for $44 billion on April 25, after weeks of media speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas put out a public invitation to the tech billionaire to move Twitter\u2019s headquarters to the state, where three of Musk\u2019s other companies are already located.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Schwertner, president and CEO of Schwertner Farms, soon made his own private bid to Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElon Musk, Move Twitter to Schwertner, TX. 38 Miles North of Austin in Williamson County, and we will give you 100 Acres for FREE,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimSchwertner1\/status\/1518941839474233344?s=20&#038;t=OFwbOfLjVIzWCCfC89LjMQ\">Schwertner said on Twitter on April 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<p>Schwertner owns\u00a020,000 acres of farms and ranches on land just north of Georgetown, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it\u2019s a good idea, especially when you\u2019ve got Samsung coming to Taylor,\u201d said Schwertner to Austonia.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics is building a $17 billion chipmaking campus in the suburb of Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, this area is exploding and we want to be part of this explosive growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schwertner said that the move would be a \u201cwin-win\u201d for everybody involved, claiming that a business like Twitter would bring plenty of jobs to Texas and a boon for the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas rancher\u2019s offer has the support of Abbott, who promptly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1519511442378080257?s=20&#038;t=hSw9idNn_3gWxNYwO3l53g\">posted a tweet<\/a> in support on\u00a0April 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will declare it a \u2018Free Speech Zone,\u2019\u201d said Abbott, \u201cMaybe we can rename it Twitter, Texas. Think about it, @elonmusk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Musk, who already has a business relationship with the Lone Star State, announced last year that he would move Tesla\u2019s headquarters from California\u2019s Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, after complaining about the Golden State\u2019s unfriendly business environment.<\/p>\n<p>The tech entrepreneur is also building a manufacturing plant for his SpaceX operations in Austin and his\u00a0Boring Company is headquartered there as well.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire had purchased more than 2,500 acres southeast of downtown Austin in the city\u2019s extraterritorial jurisdiction for his three companies.<\/p>\n<p>Musk built a $1.1 billion factory on a small portion of the land, which is also Tesla\u2019s new headquarters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<p>Other social media companies like Meta and TikTok also have their\u00a0headquarters in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In an already deleted tweet, Musk had previously joked about turning Twitter\u2019s Bay Area headquarters into a homeless shelter, which he claims is barely used since the pandemic placed employees at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think with all the stuff he\u2019s done, he evidently likes Texas, right or he wouldn\u2019t have moved from California,\u201d said Schwertner about Musk, adding he wants \u201cto be part of his plan if he\u2019ll come visit with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a reiteration of his offer, Schwertner wrote a tweet to Musk on April 27 and told Austonia that his proposal is a \u201cserious gesture to help the citizens around Williamson County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has yet to respond to or publicly acknowledge the Texas rancher\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-bryan-jung\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bryan S. Jung is a native and resident of New York City with a background in politics and the legal industry. He graduated from Binghamton University.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Austin rancher has offered to donate free land to Elon Musk for the use of a new Twitter headquarters in Texas, if he chooses to relocate the company\u00a0from San<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}