I don't think this sort of behavior is peculiar to leftists, nor to dynasts like Jerry Brown for that matter. In any case, Fox News's article (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/06/california-governor-ordered-state-workers-to-research-oil-drilling-on-family/) says,

Drysdale said the satellite-imaged geological and drilling map prepared by the state for Brown's land took a "few hours."