California High Speed Rail to Nowhere Paid for Nightclub and Cigar Bar

The California High-Speed Rail to Nowhere started out with a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020, and is now up to… $231 billion. Hopefully. At this rate, it’ll cost all the money in the world and still never exist. So where is that money going? Here’s a hint. Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving...