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I am writing in regard to the article in The Spokesman-Review on Feb. 10, “Gregoire seeks purge of state bureaucracy.”

Some of the task forces included the Interagency Task Force on Milfoil Control, Acupuncture Ad Hoc Consulting Group, the Migratory Water Fowl Art Commission and the one that made me laugh right out loud – the Oversight Committee on Moral Guidance.

The names and suggested purpose of these agencies would be truly laughable, if it weren’t so sad that they exist at all and presumably funded with taxpayer dollars. And these are just a few of the 154 of 470 boards and commissions that Gregoire is supposedly trimming. In these troubled economic times, how in the world has our Legislature allowed these programs to come into existence in the first place?

Blast away, Governor, but what we really need is an oversight committee to eliminate task forces, consulting groups, art commissions and other needless boards and commissions.

Phil Passmore

Spokane

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