The gang that can’t shoot straight at the Federal Reserve Board looks to be a model of efficiency when compared to California’s powerful Coastal Commission, which was formed 50 years ago to “protect’ the state’s 840 miles of coastline.

UP Senior Fellow John Fund explains in the WSJ that the Commission has come to hold a de facto veto pen on economic development. It recently denied a U.S. Air Force plan to allow Elon Musk’s SpaceX more rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Now, even California’s liberal Governor Gavin Newsom has accused the same board of issuing “legally erroneous guidance” that threatens to delay rebuilding efforts after the LA wildfires. Are they TRYING to make California poor?

Former commissioner Arnold Steinberg describes the agency as an “extortion racket that ties up homeowners and developers alike based on ideological whims and what concessions they can bully out of them.”

The Coastal Commission is a symbol of why the Golden State can’t build anything anymore,  and why millions of residents have given up on the state.