Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far-left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.”
This former Californian and Angeleno pretty much agrees. California politicians spend too much time virtue signaling to the rest of America and too little time on the unglamorous work of protecting livable neighborhoods.
“Government from the local government to the state level, everything is failing,” Sean Walsh, a consultant who served as deputy chief of staff to former California Gov. Pete Wilson, told me. And it’s failing on “the fundamental things they ought to do.”
Yes, I’m talking about Gov. Gavin Newsom, who proudly announced this month that the state “finally” started to lay track for a high-speed rail project to connect Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Talk about a time-suck boondoggle. In 2008, Golden State voters approved a bond measure to fund $9.9 billion for the project. Now, the cost projection exceeds $100 billion. And the estimates only get higher. […]
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