This is more unwelcome news for California Governor Gavin Newsom, aka Randall Flagg-lite.
His state is a wreck on damn near every front – burning down, sliding off hillsides, washing away, just falling to pieces, economically derelict – and there is little shiny for him to point to as progress.
He’s mostly been exceptionally fond of his ‘bullet train’ project, championing the idea long before he ever slid his lithe, serpentine form into a chair at the governor’s office. Admittedly, that enthusiasm has waxed and waned some through the years, depending on what Newsom thought polls were saying about him and how it impacted whatever office he was angling for next.
While mayor of San Francisco, Democrat Gavin Newsom supported high-speed rail in California so strongly that he partnered with Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008 to push for a $10-billion…
