Mayor Turner pitches Houston for Tesla HQ — but it might be too late

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is the latest Texas official to try to woo Elon Musk away from California, but the entrepreneur might have already decided to move Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) to another Texas city.

Turner sent Musk a letter May 15 calling Houston “an ideal location for the consolidation of Tesla and SpaceX operations, making it the location of your first global campus.”

Musk also leads SpaceX, which has locations in Texas, including a Houston-area presence thanks to NASA. Turner touted…