I am sure they will be able to exert pressure from their investor community on the political community. I'm pretty sure $1.2 billion in VC money is as valuable than all of those VCs exerting political pressure to keep them in markets. ;)

I'm pretty sure there will be no bribes. :P

I think part of my issue is alot of the rules that their contractors bend/break are reasonable.

It is like my issue with AirBnb. There is a good reason for many of the 'short term' rental laws.

We aren't talking about the bullshit Tesla bans here, after all.