n nuniez is a 4 term republican. who is paying for this? right now the federal tax payer is going to pay for it but the remainder of the money will have to be made up by californians which if anybody has paid attention california is also broke. he opposes the project. that hasn t necessarily been easy. his con at this tistituents suf much as any. the planned rail line from san diego to the bay area through the district. weighing down will create hundreds of thousands of temporary construction jobs. he points out it s a bit of a stretch to call those jobs green. any time you are using concrete and bulldozers it s a new job. we believe any job is a green job. kurt pringle is the former