Jan Deleeuw, thanks very much for the great read this morning regarding the Tejon Ranch development. You summed up both the local and national political reality as well as any person I have read in many years. The names could be changed to suit any region but certainly not the truth you eloquently expressed. The Supervisor meeting was all for show, the outcome already settled by the dough.

Truly, is it not a wonder that 1% of our population has more clout than 95% of us put together? 

Thanks again for the great take!

A few observations about the accurate description of the circus (supervisor meeting) presented by deleuu which I also had the dubious priviledge to attend for free. 

The richest 1% of our population has more money, and therefore more political clout, than the bottom 95%.   

White-men of mediocre (or less) intelligence are the majority on most decision making bodies in the SJV.  Most of them see it as their hightest duty to protect and increase the wealth of the richest 1%. 

The Supervisors' ability to project the consequences of their decisions into the future is demonstrably limited to a couple years at best.

Interesting how they must, by law, not violate the Brown Act, yet our supervisors all came to the meeting with the exact same conclusion about how wonderful the project was.