Florida's Chief Monetary Officer Jimmy Patronis invited Twitter to maneuver its headquarters to Florida following the information that Elon Musk reached an settlement to purchase the platform for $44 billion on Monday.

Twitter accepted Musk's buy-out deal on Monday following negotiations, and Musk introduced his plans to boost the platform in a press launch following the information. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy," Musk mentioned, "and Twitter is the digital city sq. the place issues important to the way forward for humanity are debated."

"I additionally need to make Twitter higher than ever by enhancing the product with new options, making the algorithms open supply to extend belief, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all people," he added. "Twitter has large potential – I stay up for working with the corporate and the neighborhood of customers to unlock it."

Following the information, Patronis prompt on-line that Musk take into account shifting Twitter's headquarters from San Francisco to Florida.

Posting a photograph of a seashore at sundown, Patronis wrote, "Hey @elonmusk, that is what Crew Twitter may see ever[y] night in case your HQ was within the Free State of Florida."

He tweeted shortly after, "This acquisition is each a win free of charge speech and a win for Florida's pension system. With @elonmusk answerable for @Twitter, I'll proceed my marketing campaign of attracting Twitter to Florida."

He added that whereas he believes Musk "has the appropriate intentions, he will likely be battling a tradition that lives, works and performs in San Francisco, which is the epicenter of wokeness, groupthink and speech codes."

Patronis concluded that Twitter would profit tremendously from the transfer. "We've got no earnings tax, we love freedom, and we imagine in public security. With Elon on the helm, Florida and Twitter could be a match made in heaven," he wrote.

This isn't the primary time Patronis has vocalized his want for Musk to take his enterprises to the conservative state of Florida. In early April, Patronis despatched Musk a letter suggesting that Florida might be of use to Twitter shortly after Musk bought 9.2 p.c of Twitter's inventory and quickly turned the corporate's largest shareholder.

"I feel Twitter's tradition may benefit from being in a state that values liberty and has not been taken captive by the thought police (not like California)," Patronis wrote in line with Florida Politics. "There isn't a Ministry of Reality right here. Simply freedom, seashores and a number of alternative."

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Florida's CFO Jimmy Patronis invited Elon Musk to maneuver Twitter to Florida after it was introduced that Musk bought the platform for $44 billion on Monday. On this photograph, an indication is posted on the outside of Twitter headquarters on April 25, 2022 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty Photos

In 2020, Patronis additionally supplied Musk the chance to maneuver the Tesla headquarters to Florida after plans to open factories to make Tesla's electrical autos have been shot down by California authorities. Musk ultimately moved Tesla headquarters to Texas as a substitute.

Patronis and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have been additionally unsuccessful after they urged In-N-Out Burger to return to Florida.

On Elon Musk's latest buy, DeSantis tweeted on Monday, "@elonmusk's provide to purchase Twitter is an effective deal for shareholders and raises the prospect that the platform will likely be a spot the place free speech can thrive, not a device for narrative enforcement."

Newsweek reached out to Elon Musk and Jimmy Patronis for added remark.