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Old 12-20-2006, 06:22 PM
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11pt
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Default RE: IL Sportsmen/women beware

uncle matt - He raided those funds in a LEGAL way. The federal government has no control over what the state does with state owned buildings. By transferring the ownership and then charging them rent, they have no choice but to pay it. With their budget already cut and people across the state laid off....where else are they going to come up with the money? Like I said, they can use it for day to day operations (like rent). Whether a given dollar comes from the DNR base budget or P-R Funds doesn't matter. It wouldn't have done him any good to raid the DNR for more of the state's own funds because he could just cut the budget further. This allows him to raid another pot. Either way, every dollar they have to spend renting their own buildings is one less dollar available for wildlife management. Rod wanted more money out of them and he got in a sneaky underhanded way. Legal - but if people had known what he was doing and knew the costs I'm sure it would have been a bigger issue.

Anyway - its done and will likely never be undone. Even future governors will probably not give the buildings back. The thing people need to be worried about now is the gov transferring the DNR to a completely different department. This would be a very public issue and that would likely be the thing that keeps him from doing it.
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