Pork is in the eye of the beholder.
To Dicks and theater boosters, the money is not pork, but funds needed to enhance the renovated theater. The Admiral Theatre is crucially important to the revitalization of downtown Bremerton. Dicks, a Bremerton native, said that in a Navy town, it's important to have facilities where sailors and officers can enjoy themselves. And, he said, the theater has been widely supported in the community, not only by local and state government agencies but by private citizens. These guys don't know what they're talking about.