Now that their cover has been blown, a group of Silicon Valley billionaires who have quietly bought at least 52,000 acres in Solano County during the past five years—that's most of the eastern part of the county—have put up a website to explain the project.
It turns out that all the headline writers who have been throwing around the word "elitist" to describe this group—some of the richest technocrats on the planet—may have been jumping to conclusions.
To begin with, let's correct the name of the company. That shadowy Delaware-based LLC called Flannery Associates that spent $800M buying more than 140 properties from more than 400 owners in Solano County since 2017?
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