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Posted on 02/17/2026 7:32:54 AM PST by BenLurkin
A new state bill aims to shield certain information about California’s High-Speed Rail project from the public.
Supporters say it’s about protecting sensitive records, but critics think it puts the brakes on transparency.
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[O]pponents...say the project is too costly. They note the state has already spent about $15 billion on it over the last decade and a half, while the total cost projections for the full project have ballooned from the original $45 billion estimate presented to voters in 2008 to anywhere between $88 billion-$128 billion today.
Inside California Politics Correspondent Eytan Wallace reports a new state bill would limit public access to certain information about the project. AB 1608 would bar the inspector general from releasing what the bill describes as “project weaknesses,” including security risks, fraud controls and pending lawsuits.
When asked how she would respond to people who see this bill as the government trying to hide information, the bill’s author, Democratic Senator Laurie Wilson (D-Suisun City) responded, “We’re not trying to hide anything. We want maximum transparency and maximum accountability to this project.”
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The part they want to hide is the theft part.
Then, why have a shield law hiding info? Are you afraid that you taking money from the project will be exposed?
This sounds like a coverup to me. RELEASE ALL THE FILES!!!!!
Someone should sue the State to keep the records open. It’s TAXPAYER money, and the deserve to know what going on with THEIR MONEY.
a multi-billion dollar theft boondoggle
that the thieving politicians want to force USA taxpayers to ‘bail out’
while hiding their criminality, of course
watch this one, it is a biggie
It is sad that Californians are being so manipulated. There will be no completed high-speed rail, when one simply looks to a Bakersfield to Merced segment of 119 miles being FORECASTED to be “complete” by 2033. The grift is enormous now, and collapse may be expected. What form that will be is unclear, but it is coming to a state with over $600 billion in fast-rising debt.
Someone in California must be running for President.
They made The Music Man 60 years ago about this.
“Supporters say it’s about protecting sensitive records...”
Yeah, sensitive records that would expose all the fraud and the crooks (politicians) who stole the money.
Bakersfield to Merced segment of 119 miles being FORECASTED to be “complete” by 2033.
The politicians are trying to hide all the billing from consulting firms for work done for other projects in California but billed to the high-speed rail.
How much cash is now in Politician’s bank accounts ?
Agreed. Plus many lawsuits are backhanded ways to fund liberal causes: Like an environmental group that sues the government and the government willingly negotiates a settlement. The parties were never really adversaries, just liberal fronts intent on siphoning tax monies and tying the hands of future administrations.
Information like where All the Money Went?
They could hire Limousines to carry all the Riders and Still save Money.
Sensitive....
As in which crony managed to get the good deals on the property needed. As in which crony got the construction contracts. As in which politicians got the inside deals and kick backs.
High speed from Merced to Bakersfield. WOW. Two huge megalopolis cities with so much commerce between the two....
Hide the grift.
Somebody took a big cash bribe to keep “the project is behind schedule” from the public. The trusting California voters never suspected a thing.
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