When I fought wind turbines in Southwest Michigan, my nemesis was a guy dispatched from Michigan State's School of Agriculture. His pitch was to get farmers to sign up for the lucrative lease arrangements being dangled in front of their noses. Needless to say having to fight for my property rights against a guy on the State payroll was yet additional salt in an already irritated wound.
Yeah, I’ll bet. Even when it’s tax money being spent, a lot of people have a hard time turning down “free” money.