A privately funded National Guard deployment is legal, but is it ethical?

SGT (Join to see) - If any kind of legal jepordy was involved with the troops deploying the Feds would intervene. Hell, even the state AG would intervene via the seat the NGB has at the Federal Level. That has not happened though.

SFC Michael Hasbun The governor isn't recieving Jack shit. The donation is going to the STATE to reimburse the STATE who is initially paying for the deployment. And it is the STATE who authorized this deployment, to fill a STATE function assisting another STATE at that STATE's request.

The private donot kicked in money AFTER THE DECISION WAS MADE AND ANNOUNCED to help cover the cost the STATE had already committed to.

You are wrong on just about every facet of this thing. I don't know if it is that you are SO blinded by your Democrat-goggles or just ignorant. Either way, you are reading the situation wrong, and arguing against a non-existent circumstance.

SFC Casey O'Mally - ah! Gotcha! The money isn't going to HIM, it's going to the State, whose treasury he directly controls! Very clever ;o) Very sneaky...

SFC Michael Hasbun
A) Kristi Noem is a she, not a he. And Kristi isn't even one of those "tricky" names like Chris or Pat, where that is an excusable mistake. If you don't even know WHO you are talking about when the story and your comment are about about a specific person, then I have to assume you have no idea WHAT you are talking about, either.

B) It appears that you are insinuating that Gov Noem is embezzling. If that were true - which there is ABSOLUTELY no evidence it is - then where the money is coming FROM is really irrelevant. If the Governor were embezzling, the private donor and the NG would be mere window dressing on the true story.

C) While governors in most states do have the Treasury within the state executive branch, the state house still controls the actual money. The governor can direct the Treasury in how to conduct their operations, but (outside of specific allocations made by the state house for executive spending) (s)he cannot direct WHERE to send the money. The insinuation that the governor "directly controlling" the Treasury has anything to do with who puts money into the Treasury - or how they do it - and that gives the governor some kind of status to funnel money is just silly.

MSG Joseph Cristofaro - Don't bother replying to Hellenbrand - all the worlds ills are the fault of the GOP. Let him live in his self contained imaginary world

I always thought the locale where the Apartment collapsed was a Democratic Party stronghold in fact it is presided over by Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-FL) for like decades. Really a stretch to even remotely attach blame to GOP for the collapse. The primary blame resides with the Condo Association for not getting off their proverbial azzes and inspecting the areas in question visually nor asking the proper oversight questions. Despite their claims of being surprised, they were first level oversight and should have inspected the areas themselves instead of paying others to do it. Secondary issue was city building inspector who allowed occupancy permit of the building regardless of defects.

unfortunately - what factually happened, and how the Media and democrats are spinning it, are two different things. The ARK, Governor approved the deployment long before the donation was made, the Donation was immediately disclosed and made public, and the donation did not effect any of the processes that go into a NG deployment, SO the rich being able to buy a private army is a lie.