WDFW has had to fork over millions to the general fund from their budget as their share of the bulging state bureaucracy. Our state has the distinction of having the largest number of state employees per capita in the USA if I'm not mistaken. And it is getting larger all the time. I heard today that Gov Locke signed a semi-secret deal with Boeing agreeing to provide 8 or 9 state employees for the exclusive use of Boeing to help handle the permitting processes and other various corporate welfare schemes we came up with to keep Boeing in our state. WDFW will have to pay a share of that too. So the WDFW budget that comes from our license fees for the most part is helping to finance a bunch of other pork barrell stuff....Or should I say you, the taxpayer, are helping to pay for this garbage instead of fishing related things that you thought you were paying for....Get a copy of the Friday Port Townsend commission meeting from a few weeks ago to see what the WDFW has to endure.
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