Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) expressed uncommon support for Elon Musk after the California Coastal Commission blocked the latter’s efforts to increase SpaceX launches at the state’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. 

“I’m with Elon. I didn’t like that. Look, I’m not helping the legal case. You just can’t bring up that explicit level of politics,” Newsom said during an interview Thursday evening, later adding he wished “his friends” on the state commission would exercise more impartiality by “calling balls and strikes.”