PORT ANGELES — The e-mail to Sen. Patty Murray asked her to withdraw funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“They either are incompetent to do their job or don’t want to do their job,” it said.
The e-mail’s author, Dick Stumbaugh, was the Clallam County’s veterans assistant, tasked with helping vets access the Veterans Relief Fund and other benefits programs.
He’ll leave the job April 30, nearly staggering from his load of frustration.
Disabled veterans Stumbaugh has helped are almost reverential speaking of his willingness to help them penetrate the VA’s maze of regulations and stacks of paperwork.
Lean, lanky and soft-spoken, he doesn’t anger easily.
The VA, though, manages to madden him with regularity.
