Gov. Ron DeSantis' plan to re-establish the Florida State Guard was controversial when it was first announced. As stevebenen writes, the Florida Republican's policy looks vastly worse now.
For his part, the Republican offered plenty of assurances. DeSantis insisted that he simply wanted a local force to assist in responding to emergencies such as hurricanes, which are hardly unheard of in the Sunshine State. To hear the Floridian tell it, those raising concerns about a private gubernatorial fighting force were being hysterical and paranoid.
According to the Times’ report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, 150 people were initially accepted into the program, and since then, at least one-fifth of them have either quit or been kicked out — including those who were fired after trying to raise concerns about the direction of the operation.
Among those ousted: Brian Newhouse, a retired Navy officer who helped recruit the first batch of volunteers, who raised objections on the first day of training. He was “abruptly escorted out.”One of the recruits, who like most of the others did not want to be named because of fear of reprisals, described the training as more like a “military fantasy camp” than the practical instruction expected in topics such as how to respond to hurricanes.
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