Utah governor warns Californians against moving there

[RandySF]

Some Republican officials invite unhappy Californians to move to their states. Others invite them to move, but with the caveat that they "don't forget" why they want out of California in the first place.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is going a different route, telling reporters Friday he wants prospective transplants to "stay in California," because there isn't housing for them.

The topic arose when Cox, a Republican, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, met with President Joe Biden and other governors at the White House on Friday. Cox and Murphy, who lead the National Governors Association together, spoke to reporters outside and took questions, the first of which was about what the two states are doing to attract new residents.

After Murphy said, "New Jersey has never been hotter," and plugged recent property tax cuts, Cox told people to stay away.

"We’re having the opposite problem, this last census confirmed that Utah was the fastest-growing state over the past 10 years," Cox said. "So our biggest problems are more growth related. We would love for people to stay in California instead of coming as refugees to Utah. So we’re always trying to figure that out. Our biggest problem right now is housing and water, those two issues. Because we've grown so quickly, we need a larger supply of housing, that's where our focus is. We're not working to attract more people, we're doing just fine that way."




https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/utah-governor-warns-californians-moving-17781276.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. CALIFORNIA LIBERALS...STAY HOME!

I get it.

The Utah Governor is saying people moving to Utah are NOT WELCOMED there. Did he say that to other residents of other states?

[In It to Win It]

2. I'd love for the rest of the country to keep their shithead Republicans from moving to Florida

but we all can't get what we want

[Arger68]

3. If the Mormon church would stop telling

their members to have umpteen kids they wouldn't be growing so fast either

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[Marcuse]

4. Make Utah purple!!

[DavidDvorkin]

6. There's a tech boom in Utah and the blue metro areas are growing

He's worried that they'll grow enough to have an effect on statewide elections.

[treestar]

7. LOL does he not realize that capitalism is at work there too?

The construction industry will be fine with more homes to build. What an idiot. We have complete freedom of state to state travel, he can not prevent anyone from any other of the 49 states from moving there.