{"id":17644,"date":"2025-05-06T18:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17644"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:06:41","slug":"hes-trying-to-colonize-this-community-inside-elon-musks-plan-to-take-over-this-texas-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17644","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s Trying to Colonize This Community\u2019: Inside Elon Musk\u2019s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Much of the land within the proposed new city limits belongs to the company. Most of the voters are SpaceX employees. Gunnar Milburn, Space X\u2019s security manager,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cameroncountytx.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/I.-Petition-Requesting-an-Election-for-the-Incorporation-of-Starbase-TX-as-a-Type-C-General-Law-Municipality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>was listed as the town\u2019s first potential mayor<\/u><\/a>. His name has since been replaced by Robert Peden, a vice president at SpaceX. Two other employees, the engineering manager and the senior director of environmental health and safety, would serve as city commissioners. As is the case nationally, Musk would serve as an unelected overseer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/02\/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/02\/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Much of the land within the proposed new city limits belongs to the company. Most of the voters are SpaceX employees. Gunnar Milburn, Space X\u2019s security manager, was listed as the town\u2019s first potential mayor. His name has since been replaced by Robert Peden, a vice president at SpaceX. Two other employees, the engineering manager and the senior director of environmental health and safety, would serve as city commissioners. As is the case nationally, Musk would serve as an unelected overseer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/05\/02\/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[961,1774,1598,954,21],"class_list":["post-17644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cities","tag-colonialism","tag-elon-musk","tag-space","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}