Posted on 08/17/2011 5:25:31 PM PDT by SmithL
Gov. Jerry Brown said this afternoon that California's embattled high-speed rail project should move forward, despite growing criticism about the project's management and cost.
While the nation is in a "period of massive retrenchment," Brown told The Fresno Bee's editorial board, "I would like to be part of the group that gets America to think big again."
The Democratic governor has said little publicly about the project since it came under fire this year in Sacramento, with cost estimates rising and lawmakers questioning its oversight. The project, to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, was once expected to cost about $43 billion, a figure the California High-Speed Rail Authority is expected to update this fall.
Brown said he is "really getting into" the project . . .
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What a weasel. Talk about the Train to Nowhere!
California has brown rot.
"I'm doing the best I can to keep this train running,"Moonbeam wants to drive Choo-Choo.
Oh, Jerry, please!!! High speed rail is a crony capitalist dream and a union boondoggle to boot. It isn't thinking big. Its more of the same taking from the taxpayers to give to your supporters for a project that no one really wants. Want to think big? Pay down your debt before California completely swirls down the toilet.
The ‘bullet’ train should be named after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, because CA needs it like a hole in the head.
Yeah, right over the cliff
He a dingy harry are in cahoots on this.
WATCHOUT! this will be part of Obama’s new jobs program is september
Its also a terrorist target thats easy to derail
It would be cheaper to pay Californians to drive to New Mexico to ride that loser.
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“”Brown told The Fresno Bee’s editorial board, “I would like to be part of the group that gets America to think big again.” “”
A liberal Democrats idea of thinking big is how much money can he waste. Jerry wants to put NM Gov Richardson to shame who only spent $800 million on his losing train that is costing New Mexicans $60 million per year.
Maybe they can hire the genius who ran the solar project for LA Community College?
Are there any reporters with the balls that will ask this low grade moron how much campaign money he is receiving from the high speed rail thugs?
Gee, wonder if the Chinese will build this railroad? The more things change...
That's where he wants the next $Trillion to go.
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