Dianne Feinstein's husband wins near-billion dollar California 'high speed rail' contract

To the surprise of absolutely no one familiar with the ways of Corruptifornia, the one-party state completely in the hands of the Democrats, a consortium whose lead firm is controlled by Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Diane Feinstein, was awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco and Los Angeles. Those paying attention to the project call it the “half-fast” rail line because it will share trackage with conventional commuter rail trains in the sprawling Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, lowering its average speed to levels achieved by American railways a century ago.

Crazifornia.com writes:

The Perini-Zachary-Parsons bid was the lowest received from the five consortia participating in the bidding process, but “low” is a relative term. The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno. Do the division, and you find that the low bid came in at a mere $35 million per mile.

And that doesn’t include the cost of rolling stock (that’s engines and cars to the normal among us). Nor does it include the cost of electrifying the route. Does it at least include the cost of land acquisition? No, it does not.

As this fiasco progress, remember that this $35 million per mile represents the best California can do on the section of track the High on Crack Speed Rail Authority selected to go first because it will be the cheapest.

Tutor-Perini, the lead contractor controlled by Di-Fi’s hubby, has an (ahem) interesting history. From The National Black Chamber of Commerce:

Honest people wonder why FedGov would waste so much money on high speed rail. Those who understand Big Government know exactly why we are wasting so much money on high speed rail. Big government liberals, including Pelosi, Reid, Chris Cristie, and Jeb Bush disgust me.

Well, you knew that was going to happen. The Democrats push and pass a bill, then “award” the contract to a special Democrat friend. And in the meantime, without water in the Central Valley, the “train to nowhere” will become the “Empty Train, Going nowhere with no one” service as the population makes and exodus from the Valley as jobs leave.

How is this not cronyism and political patronage and payoffs.

The democrat party should have been outlawed in 1865 and its leadership North and South hanged for treason.

I truly HATE with a burning passion, the democrat party.

“How is this not cronyism and political patronage and payoffs.”

Ha!

To admit it’s cronyism means they’d have to admit Dianne doesn’t belong where SHE is, in the first place!! :)

Ahhh, priorities... liberals don’t understand what the word means.

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Their priority is corruption and fraud that makes them rich. And in the true since of the word, they aren’t liberals. They are crooks as old as government itself.

It’s not just California.

The quickest way to become a billionaire today is for your wife to be elected to the US Senate. The quickest way to become a multi-millionaire is for your wife to become a Member of the House of Representatives.

And nobody has to even know your name.

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