<p>It looks like even the Oakland Athletics are joining the mass exodus of Californians fleeing for a better life.</p>
<p>On Thursday, one of the MLB&#8217;s most iconic franchises announced that it has purchased land in Las Vegas, Nevada, after searching and failing to find land for a new stadium in Oakland.  Now, the A&#8217;s will be building a gigantic $1.5 billion, 35,000-seat stadium in Sin City for the ball club, <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/36241520/oakland-agree-purchase-land-las-vegas-strip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ESPN.</p>
<p>&#8220;For a while, we were on parallel paths [with Oakland], but we have turned our attention to Las Vegas to get a deal here for the A&#8217;s and find a long-term home,&#8221; team president Dave Kaval told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. &#8220;Oakland has been a great home for us for over 50 years, but we really need this 20-year saga completed and we feel there&#8217;s a path here in Southern Nevada to do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>The move has the full support of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, but Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao isn&#8217;t too pleased about it. The city has now officially ended talks with the team to keep them in the city.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am deeply disappointed that the A&#8217;s have chosen not to negotiate with the City of Oakland as a true partner, in a way that respects the long relationship between the fans, the City and the team,&#8221; Thao said in a statement given to ESPN. &#8220;Yet, it is clear to me that the A&#8217;s have no intention of staying in Oakland and have simply been using this process to try to extract a better deal out of Las Vegas. I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, Oakland residents would likely turn around and tell Thao that they deserve better from the city government, too, particularly from the district attorneys&#8217; office. <a href="https://freebeacon.com/california/california-judge-stops-soros-prosecutor-from-slashing-triple-murderers-sentence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Soros-backed</a> prosecutor Pamela Price is implementing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rogue-progressive-prosecutors-promote-lawlessness-not-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the kind of policies</a> that have contributed in large part to the skyrocketing crime that we see around the country. For example, Price attempted to grant a plea deal that would have cut a triple murder sentence to just 15 years, instead of the 75-to-life sentence typically doled out for those types of heinous acts, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/prosecutors-quit-over-soros-funded-das-radical-agenda-families-vow-fight-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Thankfully that deal was blocked by a judge, but as <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/price-is-not-right">pointed</a> out by City-Journal this week, Price reacted by rebuking the judge in that case on social media. City-Journal also noted that Oakland residents already organizing for a recall of Price, who only entered office just a few short months ago.</p>
<p>While the A&#8217;s didn&#8217;t specifically mention state policy as a contributing factor for their pending departure, one can&#8217;t help but imagine that California&#8217;s oppressive business climate and general governance insanity under Governor Gavin Newsom (D) may have contributed to the decision to go to income-tax-free Nevada.</p>
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<p>The team certainly wouldn&#8217;t be alone in closing up and shop and leaving, if that had any role. A recent report indicates that 500,000 Californians left the state between <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/18/over-500000-people-left-california-in-two-years-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 2020 and July 2022</a>. Since 2018, Nearly 118,000 Californians moved to Nevada according to one data.</p>
<p>And unfortunately for the beleaguered state, it looks like the Oakland Athletics are <em>going, going gone</em> as well.</p>
<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</i></p>

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