If Jerry Brown can keep pushing for that stupid bullet train in spite of all indications that it’s a total fool’s errand to try and build here, who is he to tell Donald Trump he’s crazy for wanting to build a dumb wall?
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Based on ridership on Bay Area Caltrain growth in ridership. The demand has risen to meet the would-be product.
California has no faults of its own, they were already here. Shameful President will visit to smear harm upon harm promoting his MAGA nificent ideas for the border.
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Nonsense, we have the Hayward fault and the San Andreas fault. We would love to show Trump those.
The statement that the future of the high-speed train "is in doubt because of cost overruns and Republican opposition" is grossly simplistic and misleading. The project is in trouble because of people who value what's left of our environment than they care about the vanity project of a group of self-entitled politicians focused on their "legacy". It's in trouble because it's now apparent that the entire project was grossly misrepresented to the people. It's in trouble because it is absolutely unnecessary at a time when millions of Californians are struggling with the necessities of life. The project is a house of cards and a testament to the damage that results from the practiced application of the art of the lie. The names of those responsible for this project will be infamous to generations of Californians saddled with the cost of subsidizing and maintaining this monstrosity.
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Jerry Brown, as close to a class act as California politics allows a winner to be, has done California proud and he will be missed -- all the more if he is succeeded by Gavin Newsom, truly a House of Cards-class pol.
I have always voted in general elections for Newsom because I understand the Republican Party is a wrecking machine. But I have never voted for him in a primary.
The upcoming primary is so important. All of Newsom's Democratic opponents are lesser evils. If he becomes governor, I fear we will never be rid of him.
I couldn't be more pleased that the President is not happy with California. That to me is an indication that we are a state with a soul based on strong human values. Trump will never understand this and making any attempt to appease him or his administration diminishes who we are. Tell him we will see him in court.
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Trump’s visit to California will be a test to see if he can keep it together to visit Kim. Wasting tax payer money to look at examples of the wall is just an excuse to get government money to pay for his fund raiser in LA.
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As a native (but now dispossessed) Californian and 40-year resident of San Francisco, I need to say that Gavin Newsom is a tool. It's all about him and nothing about the people he serves or would serve.
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Welcome to the party, California. Trump is nothing but a lying, cowardly bully. Canada will not be intimidated by a criminal American President. Trump can go to Mar a Lago!
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I urge my governor to resist the discriminatory immigration hunting that Trump and Sessions prefer! Go after actual criminals. Have ICE do its own job and not impose on local police. California Sanctuary cities don't object to ICE removing criminals if they are also illegal. What Californians don't want are federal police raiding homes and businesses rounding up people who "look" illegal! Trump & Sessions should stay out if California. Our governor and legislature can handle matters. Even the conservatives inland need laborers for their farms!
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California with all its faults is more humane than most of the rest of the US. Wyoming is also a great place to live. And I am all in favor of a positive tension between states rights and Federalism. But I wish we could Californicate Wyoming just a bit.
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After years of the Berlin Wall tearing at the heart of humanity, another autocrat wanna be wants to duplicate it in America. Those weak minded sorts who cheer for this proposal should keep in mind that walls also keep people IN. It doesn't make us a gated community.
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Their is no other state like California, there may be some cities or neighborhoods, but California is the 49er state filled with entrepreneurs and go getters. While other states claim to have their own Silicon Valley, there is only one and it is here. We are not without controversy. Certainly our high speed train has opposition, just as Clinton's ditch had opposition. Once it is operating, it will be a marvel.
As for Mr. Trump he didn't come here to speak to the fire victims or the flood victims but he will come here to look at wall samples, and perhaps to raise some money for his legal defense team. There is no comparison, Governor Brown is a great leader with vision, experience and knowledge. Mr. Trump is the man who brought us Trump University and many other failed businesses.
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Brown's idea of bridges is a one way street into California so the poor from south America can come streaming in and displace citizens. They have done a remarkably good job. Population is steady as the middle and upper middle class leave and the low skill poor move in. As a result taxes keep going higher, wage rates lower, and expectations dim.
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I am a middle class worker who recently left California—where I was born, raised, and lived for nearly my entire life (minus 2-1/2 years of my adult life in two other places)—because I can no longer afford to live there, so I'm not really sure how all of these "low skill poor" people are going to make it happen.
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As a former resident, Gov. Brown is using the high-speed train to nowhere as an example of building bridges and progress?! What a joke. What an out of control, over budget waste of money that project is. So glad to be long-gone from my former home state.
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Local talk radio jocks, John and Ken, refer to the train as the "browndoggle". The latest estimates of its cost have just jumped to $77 billion.
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The train will go between Los Angeles and San Francisco. If that's a "train to nowhere" then you must have a very unusual definition of that terminology.
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High speed rail between the two largest population centers - 400 miles apart - in the country's most populous state is a joke? That's not the kind of thinking that built California or this great country.
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Way to go Governor Brown, let Mr.Trump know how your State innovates and is an engine of the U.S. economy! I don't live in California now but I did the first time you were governor.Your no nonsense, no frills analysis of solutions and your intense advocacy for these fixes should be a lesson for him-that is if Mr.Trump ever considered anything in a sensible way.
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Go, Governor Brown. You have more integrity than the entire Trump Clan, AND Regime. Just saying.
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I’m glad that Jerry Brown is standing up to Trump and the Trump administration. I guess in true Narcissist fashion Trump is annoyed that most Californians don’t idolize him.
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