The local group behind the High-speed Boondoggle campaign is expanding its reach by teaming up with like-minded citizens in the Central Valley and SoCal. I had the pleasure of making a trip to Madera County yesterday to help them install some large banners on old cotton trailers they own near highways. Here is a great photo of how the Boondoggle message appears in the Central Valley
The banner is six feet high by thirty feet long and will be viewed by more than 10,000 cars per day. What I learned by talking with the farmers and ranchers in the Valley is that even though our concerns appear very different on the surface, they are actually very similar at their essence. High-cost rail is bad for the farms and ranches that it would bisect just like it is bad for B'game and the commercial and residential districts it would bisect.
With highly critical editorials in both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post this week, the media tide is turning and very soon politicians who support High-cost Rail will find themselves isolated from public opinion and wondering why they ever bought into this Boondoggle.
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