I don’t often go all political, but the fact that our governor, in her infinite wisdom, has decided to eliminate our State Tourism Department to help save money on her budget really frosts me. As of June 30, 2011, the department will be history. Tourism in this state brings in $14.2 billion each year. The group is making money for us, so why let them go?

The governor also decided that she should suspend the $2 million that is given annual to fund 70 different county, community and youth fairs. Then cut that amount to $500,000 for the next two years. How that is going to help balance a multibillion dollar shortfall, I’ll never know.

It looks to me like our governor doesn’t want people to have any fun. But she has the money to make her own fun because she is the tenth highest paid governor in the United States.

As our local talk radio hosts say repeatedly, “Our state doesn’t have a funding problem, it has a spending problem.”

On that we are all in agreement.

A group called the Washington Tourism Alliance has been formed to try and take over where our tourism department leaves off. I really hope they can, but the people who I’ve talked to in the travel industry seem doubtful.

What craziness has your state government done lately?