The governor even made a video [1]. A professionally produced video (which means expensive, obviously paid by the taxpayer) to convince (!?) Jeff Bezos.

What does he really expect? That Jeff will go "Yeah, you got me, I was waiting for this, here are some billions of dollars to you" ?

[1] (Note it's from one year ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYeYCqsD1hg

...to take money...

Our guys are trying to create money ex nihilo.