[Vigilanteman]

Exactly. Toyota was here more than 30 years. Heavy manufacturing plants are not easy to move and that probably give the California politicians the gall to keep plucking them.

Plus, Japanese companies are extraordinarily patient and love the California climate.

But everyone has a point where they will put up with it no longer.

[forgotten man]

The last automobile assembly plant in California closed years ago. Toyota North America had a large headquarters presence in Torrance, CA., near LAX. I heard Jerry Brown’s comments on the loss of Toyota. He sounds like he does not care and he assumes some other corporation will jump in and take their place.