AP: JERRY BROWN USED STATE OFFICIALS TO RESEARCH OIL ACCESS ON FAMILY PROPERTY: “California is at the beginning of a $100 billion project to run a medium-speed electrical train along and over the the San Andreas Fault in large part to give travelers an option to get from LA to Frisco without feeling guilty about global warming. Airplanes, which make the trip more quickly and with far less government subsidies, use fossil fuels — and Governor Jerry Brown and the state of California don’t like fossil fuels. That is, they don’t like them unless Jerry Brown can find some under his family’s property … and the Associated Press reports that Brown used state resources to do some prospecting on the ol’ homestead,” Ed Morrissey writes.

As Moe Lane adds at Red State, “Moving along from that for a moment: the real problem here is not actually whether state regulatory officials decided to go ahead with buttering up their boss by giving him a thick report that said Nope, you got no oil there** and a pretty map to put on a wall somewhere. They did. These things happen. No, the problem here is that Jerry Brown is one of those politicians who likes to pretend that he operates on a higher moral plane than the rest of us, and that he’s not like other politicians, and any number of other silly lies.  That’s why his office was so insistent that they didn’t do anything wrong.”