Earlier this week we looked at the ways in which two right-wing gubernatorial candidates in the Midwest were using opposition to high speed rail in their campaigns. Which raises the question for us Californians, who are in the midst of a campaign to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s replacement, of how HSR is going to play in [...]

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I can’t say this is an unexpected development, given her right-wing politics and her residency in Atherton, but Meg Whitman criticized the HSR project yesterday in a short statement emailed to the Sacramento Bee: “Meg believes the state cannot afford the costs associated with high-speed rail due to our current fiscal crisis,” said the Republican [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a good governor on TV, although he has shown himself to be one of the worst governors of all time when it actually comes to policymaking. This is especially true of high speed rail. On TV he has often spoken glowingly of HSR and did so again on Meet The Press last [...]