Exclusive | Anti-Tesla protests funded by big time California Dem donor whose ex-husband is close pal of Elon Musk

Anti-Tesla protests are being fuelled by a Democratic mega-donor – whose ex-husband is one of Elon Musk’s closest pals.Billionaire Steve Jurvetson, 58, was an early investor in Tesla, served on its board until December 2020 and continues to sit on Musk’s SpaceX board.However, his ex-wife, California psychiatrist Karla Jurvetson, 58, doled out more than $500,000 to Indivisible Action, a political action group linked to a non-profit directing the protests against Musk, according to public records.Indivisible, a Washington-based advocacy group, is sponsoring “Musk or Us” demonstrations across the country this week.

The group proves a “toolkit” on their website featuring graphics and anti-Tesla protest signs as well as information about how to conduct town halls.Their website states: “Support the massive organizing effort it’s going to take to defend our democracy and one another against Trump’s authoritarian agenda.”The group stands against Musk and protest against his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative to streamline the federal bureaucracy.“Republicans are enabling Musk to make decisions and push policies that directly hurt working families while enriching billionaires like himself,” the group said on its website.“We cannot allow Republicans to abandon their responsibility to uphold our constitution and serve their constituents in order to curry favor with Musk.”Some protestors have vandalized Tesla vehicles and showrooms across the country, with fires set and showrooms spray painted.Karla Jurvetson is known in Northern California as something of a Democratic mega-donor.In addition to Indivisible she gave more than $9.5 million to Democratic progressive candidates, including former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who lost his re-election bid last year, and Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar.

She also donated more than $100,000 to Kamala Harris’s Victory Fund in 2023.The Stanford-educated psychiatris...