Guess whose Company won the bid for CA high speed rail?

The Daily Paul (yes, that Paul) ^ | 4/24/2013 | "RonPaul4Prez2012 "

[informavoracious]

Some day they’re gonna die, and they can’t take it with them.

[Roccus]

Senator and Mr. WAR PROFITEER continue to soak the taxpayer. Ain't it just grand?

[NonValueAdded]

"Ride on the fleece train,
Fleece train fleecing voters,
ride on the fleece train!

[spokeshave]

I guess if they just cracked the 15Billion barrels in the Monterey shale they could pay for it....

Hey Blum baby....start an oil company.....yeah...you can do it.

[spokeshave]

cracked = fracked.

[Artie]

And I was always under the impression that Louisiana was the poster child for graft, fraud and corruption. There is no rule of law anymore. We are rudderless, adrift as a country.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Attention Surplus Disorder.

Richard Blum, the husband of California senator Diane Feinstein.

Corruption, the other face of the Socialist coin.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just ugly.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping.

[Lancey Howard]

(shrug) California is thoroughly dominated by corrupt Democrat politicians and the lazy, corrupt, simple-minded elctorate that keeps it that way. So who is supposed to do anything about the corruption? Move along. Nothing to see here.

[Carry_Okie]

Corruption in big projects such as high-speed rail was exactly the topic of Richard Trainor's book, Paradise Lost?

[NormsRevenge]

No surprise here,, the elite taking care of their own..

Blum as been integral to a lot of the disintegration of California and antion, he’s a money grubbing connected fool., he’s served as a Regent of the UC system,, look at all their great successes delivering bang for the buck, when it comes to hiring chancellors and professors,, he’s their man.

Forbes loves him too.. a gentle bio..
http://www.forbes.com/profile/richard-blum-2/

[NormsRevenge]

Colonialism lives..

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Richard Blum: The Man Behind California’s “Developing Economy”
http://theava.com/archives/3874

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On April 17, 2009, with the edifice of the global economy rotting under an architecture of monumen­tal greed, war deficits, and official hubris, the Univer­sity of California, Berkeley conducted a ground­breaking ceremony for its Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies. Before a throng of students, faculty, staff, and PR specialists affiliated with the Center’s new multi-UC campus “Global Poverty & Practice” program, the Blum Center’s namesake was joined on stage by one of the many political heavy­weights he counts among his business partners, Al Gore. The former Vice President praised Blum as a long-time friend and cited the new institute as a key to solving the interlocking problems of global poverty and global climate change, two of the many vexing boogeymen threatening to destabilize the profit-making order.

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, who published a book on the general subject in 1921, some of the greatest sociopaths in this country’s history have affixed their names to university buildings in an effort to burnish their reputations.

Richard Blum is a San Francisco-based finance capi­talist presiding over a business empire that is, to say the least, expansive. Hedge funds? Blum owns one outright and wields a significant share of various oth­ers. Real estate? His primary investment vehicle, the $7 billion Blum Capital Partners, owns the largest real estate brokerage firm on the planet, CB Richard Ellis, of which Blum is chairman of the board. Construc­tion? Until public scandal prompted him to sell off his holdings, Blum was a majority partner in a construc­tion and engineering company that did billions in business with the US military among other govern­ment clients. Education? Try being the resident Alpha Regent of the largest public university system in the world, the University of California, while also being a primary owner of the world’s second-largest for-profit education firm, Career Education Corporation.

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