Do you really think the Techlords have stopped bankrolling Democrats?
"Newsom himself has avoided publicly endorsing the project, but the memo says it all. Having worked for a previous California governor, I can say with certainty that the GO-Biz memo states the governor’s position.
"California Forever is desperate. A group of tech billionaires spent $900 million to quietly buy up nearly 60,000 acres of land under the leadership of Jan Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader from the Czech Republic with no experience building cities. One way or another, they need their city built—regardless of what voters think. A 2024 Vanity Fair profile of Sramek described him as an Ayn Rand enthusiast who, as a young man, was fond of saying: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
"The project has cycled through multiple identities since 2024, including a bid to rebrand itself as essential to national security. For the past year, California Forever has touted the possibility of a new shipbuilding facility, but that deal went to Texas. Unable to win voter support, the project has instead worked to cut annexation deals with individual cities in Solano County."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/will-gavin-newsom-choose-billionaires-over-people/