In case you missed the KNS article [1] from last week, this sounds pretty outrageous:

When former state Rep. H.E. Bittle Jr. pushed for the creation of a "Sportsman" license plate in 1999, he stipulated that part of the revenue from the plates would go to a familiar foundation — his own. Bittle was the prime House sponsor of House Bill 584, which created the specialty plate that features an image of a deer. In the years since then, more than $900,000 in revenue from the plate has been allocated to the Sportsmen’s Wildlife Foundation.

According to the article, the "Sportsman's Wildlife Foundation" was founded by Bittle (R-Knoxville) who is the foundation's CEO. Five of its six board members are family. The money was used to purchase 329 acres in Cumberland County and build a luxury "hunting lodge" currently appraised at $319K to promote "hunter safety instruction." The article mentions that Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and State Sen. Jamie Woodson helped push the bill through the legislature. Read the whole article to fully appreciate how questionable all this sounds. According to Tennessee Secretary of State [2] business records (click "search using any part of a business name" and search for "wildlife foundation"), the Sportsman's Wildlife Federation was "administratively dissolved" by the State in Sept. 1999, just four months after the legislation passed. It was reinstated in December of 2001.