Is Texas Governor Greg Abbott hiding one thing about his dealings with Elon Musk? Some folks assume so after he gave a fairly ridiculous purpose for not sharing his emails with Phony Stark.

In response to a joint report from ProPublica and The Texas Newsroom, Abbott is refusing to launch months of emails despatched to Elon Musk and his firms underneath public data legal guidelines.

As for his reasoning, the report states that after his workplace initially agreed to launch the emails, they modified their thoughts on the ridiculous grounds that the emails are “extremely intimate or embarrassing.”

The request comes as a part of The Texas Newsroom’s investigation into Musk’s affect over the Texas authorities, which has requested to see the emails between the workplace and the billionaire relationship again to the autumn.

The governor’s workplace initially accepted the $244 to assemble the data earlier than later refusing, The Texas Newsroom reviews.

The Texas Newsroom shared a letter to the Texas legal professional basic. In it, one in all Abbott’s public data coordinators claimed that the emails encompass “of knowledge that’s intimate and embarrassing and never of official concern to the general public,” reminiscent of “monetary selections that don’t relate to transactions between a person and a governmental physique.”

The choice has solely sparked extra suspicion as a result of Musk’s footprint in Texas has solely gotten greater since his pivot to the correct.

Per The Verge:

Musk has expanded his footprint in Texas in recent times as he shifted additional to the political proper. Tesla, X, and SpaceX at the moment are all headquartered in Texas, whereas xAI nonetheless stays in San Francisco. In Could, voters in South Texas accepted a plan to make Starbase, Texas, the place SpaceX performs rocket launches, a city. Public data requests have helped illuminate this course of.

Earlier this yr, as an example, The Texas Newsroom revealed emails and calendar data revealing {that a} Texas lawmaker had deliberate a number of conferences with representatives from SpaceX. It additionally confirmed that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration to assist persuade the company to let SpaceX enhance the quantity of its rocket launches.

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