For his part, Kashkari sees Brown's backing of California's $68 billion high-speed rail inititive as a vulnerability for the sitting governor. Kashkin's nickname for the state's troubled high speed rail program was taken from the lyrics of Ozzy Osbourne's 1980 heavy metal hit, "going off the rails on a crazy train."
Kashkari, 40, says the project reflects the mixed up priorities of the Brown Administration and lawmakers in Sacramento.
His opposition to high speed rail is not over the engineering. In fact, in a new video on his YouTube channel, Kashkari includes a humble brag about leading a student team in engineering school in designing and building a solar powered car - a picture of which ended up in Popular Science.