[Portion removed; disrespectful language] Be on you toes, Peninsula residents, they will now hire a smart and charming [portion removed] who knows how to impress the money bags and have the power to destroy your cities yet. The worst is yet to come.

Jay Tulock, Vacaville

I agree with Jay Tulock. It is important that the Board, with several overextended lame duck members who have been there far too long, also resign. It's time for a major housecleaning. This project is far, far too important to be left to political hacks to make each and every decision. Every week,new information becomes public that challenges our credulity. This is not about whether HSR is a good or a bad thing. This is about an extremely poorly managed mega-infrastructure project that should be taken out of the hands of self- and project- promoters to be taken over by railroad professionals. Morshed's departure is only the first small step for mankind, so to speak.

The kind of thinking expressed by Turlock and Engel sounds so conspiritorial and not a bit political that it is no wonder that anything has been accomplished except by private money which actually makes San Mateo County Commissions look good while doing nothing except cater to a substantial group of investment "experts" who call themselves "philanthropists".
Well even THEY took a beating with the bank scandals, leaving everyone with their fingers in the golf ball scrubbers and tons of money losses they could never have predicted.
Granted, there are way too many old fellers in San Mateo County, but the dangers are more personal in all these cities of wealth while the Supervisors cannot handle the growth and the fact that most people are really afraid of growth and "outsiders" when they have to make their money back outside of these gilded areas.
Look for a lot of growth outside of this mini paradise.Also, for the loss of a lot of personal fortunes and the glossing up of this golden corridor. So obvious, but I doubt if the voters care to elect money men or women.Greed is losing out to the 21st century.
Even Schwarzenneger in a Sunday interview had to throw in the need for the HSR as a projection of what is needed in California.