January 14, 2017
Jerry Brown’s bullet train fiasco and Trump
By Thomas Lifson
California Governor Jerry Brown has staked out the turf as President-elect Trump’s opponent, hiring Eric Holder to gin up a legal strategy and appointing Congressman Xavier Bacera as his AG to oppose anticipated Trump policies in sanctuary cities, the environment, and what some call California’s “values.”
But I have to wonder if Brown doesn’t have a vulnerable flank in this battle: the looming financial collapse of his most cherished project, so-called “bullet train” between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published information from a “confidential” Federal Railroad Administration report that was leaked to it revealing absolute incompetence and out of control overspending on the first segment under construction. The report by Ralph Vartabedian should be read in its entirety to grasp the level of chaos in the project:
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