On Thursday, the Maine Senate voted 33-1 in favor of appointing retired Army Brigadier General Diane Dunn as the new leader of the Maine National Guard.
Brig. Gen. Dunn will replace the current leader of the Maine National Guard, Major General Douglas Farnham who is set to retire.
Due to Maj. Gen. Farnham’s retirement, Gov. Mills nominated Brig. Gen. Dunn to fill his post as Adjutant General of the Maine National Guard and Commissioner for the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management in December.
After Dunn was confirmed, Maine Gov. Janet Mills released a statement praising Dunn.
“I thank the Maine Senate for their overwhelming and bipartisan vote to confirm General Dunn. She is uniquely and highly qualified to serve as Adjutant General and Commissioner, is deeply respected by the men and women of the department who have served with her, and is the right person to take on these immense responsibilities.”, said Mills.
Brig. Gen. Dunn expressed her gratitude to the Senate saying, “I am deeply honored to earn the support of the Maine Senate and am grateful for the opportunity to lead the talented and dedicated men and women of the Maine National Guard and Department of Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management.”
The only Senator to vote against Brig. Gen. Dunn’s confirmation was Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin).
Brakey explained his opposition to Dunn’s nomination in her confirmation hearing. Senator Brakey shared the full transcript of his speech on his X account.
Sen. Brakey was also contacted by the Maine Wire for further comments explaining his vote.
Brakey reiterated that he does not question Brig. Gen. Dunn’s military expertise and accomplishments.
His reasoning for voting against her confirmation was solely due to her stance on the Maine Legislature’s ability to ‘Defend the Guard’.
Sen. Brakey pointed out Dunn’s response to questions from Rep. David Boyer (R-Poland) in which she disagreed that the Maine Legislature has the authority to withdraw Maine National Guard troops from active combat zones that are not declared wars.
Sen. Brakey emphasized that his opposition is not due to a policy disagreement with Dunn, but due to her not acknowledging the Constitutional authority of the Maine Legislature.
He also pointed out that Major General Farnham, Dunn’s predecessor, also denies Maine’s ability to control its own National Guard.
Brakey pointed out that a state’s National Guard can only be mobilized by the federal government for three reasons: to suppress an insurrection, to protect the nation from an attack or invasion, and to enforce the laws of the country.
According to Brakey, U.S. military actions across the world commonly include National Guard troops. Senator Brakey contends that many of these troops are illegally deployed by the federal government and are put into dangerous situations with no clear goals.
He brought up the continued deployment of U.S. troops to Syria. In the early days of the Syrian Civil War, American troops entered the war under the auspices of countering the growth of ISIS in the country’s east.
However, the Obama administration and many lawmakers also wished to counter the Syrian government, so American forces trained and aided rebel factions in Syria. Eventually, weapons were provided and men trained by U.S. troops ended up with the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front.
Brakey asserts that the federal government putting National Guard troops in foreign conflicts without clear objectives and consent from state legislatures is reckless and an overreach of federal government powers.
Defend the Guard legislation, which Sen. Brakey has introduced, asserts that in order for the deployment of Maine National Guard troops in an active combat zone, there must previously be an act by U.S. Congress.
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janet TrustFund mills only appoints women.
Who was the last Maine National Guard appointee!?
A white girl??
Ferrini-Mundy told members of the Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee that Dunn led several initiatives, including “better operationalizing our institutional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
General Dianne Dunn is OUR girl. She has come out publicly many times in support of DEI (Diversity Equity & Inclusion) Initiatives. The part? Most Maine Republicans voted for her. I love it. She is loyal and obedient to the Democrat structure.
Good win for the left.
We don’t care how incompetent boy girls are. Anything to cause chaos. My dad mom said chaos was awesome. So we went to the Russian jew puppet theatre camp in Vermont and marched for chaos all summer wearing pure white painting clothes. We didn’t create much chaos. Everyone pretty much laughed at us. Nothing seems to have changed on that front that much but with the appointment of unqualified boy girls we don’t get anything done and everything breaks. That’s the chaos that we boy girls identify with!
Thankfully, my dad mom left me a thousand acres and a modernized farm house in rural Maine so I’ll be fine up on TrustFund hill as long as the jewish bank where I make my debit card withdrawals doesn’t fail.
Glory to marxism and chaos!
‘Commercial flights becoming insanely dangerous as virtue-signaling airlines hire based on diversity rather than merit’
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‘US Navy collisions at sea: The underlying cause a result of diversity (D.I.E).’
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‘Why diversity in the workforce is failing.”
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At least she’s a real woman.
@ Me the Infidel (IE: Me lacking God)
At least you’re being bossed around by someone that didn’t earn it, didn’t build it, and doesn’t care about you!
Glory be to diversity!
No, “Connor the Marxist pig”, it means I am a Mainer who is not a follower of Allah, the ProMo or his fabricated, barbaric “religion” of Islam.
@ Infidel
Infidel mean a Christian non believer according to merriam-webster. In fact, it was used twice by Paul in the epistles when cautioning Christian’s in sin or doubting their faith.
KJV
2 Corinthians 6:15
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
KJV
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
‘Federal Aviation Administration Actively Hiring Retards, Cripples to Increase Diversity’
Unz Review
“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.”
Yes. We WANT to cripple the departments, businesses, airlines, and Government. You conservatives get the captain obvious awards. No one is hiding it. The entire purpose of DEI Initiatives is to bring down Capitalism & the west. DEI is merely the weapon from us on the far-left against the market aspect of this Revolutionary rising.
Despite how damaging DEI initiatives are, everyone keeps expanding them and adding them into every aspect of society. It’s too late to remove them. Their entire purpose is to keep cis whyte men of privilege from the work force and training to destroy their wealth while simultaneously wrecking America’s institutions & businesses: win-win-win for us
Soon more States will pass law FORCING DEI initiatives like in Europe/Canada. Suck it up buttercups.
Bangor Savings Bank (locally) has shut down early today. Closed at 2:45 pm. Due to SNOW! It’s 3:15 pm now and there is approximately 1” of new snow. One old jewish man (boomer) and three stupid white girls walked out. The white girls were all smiles and staring at their phones. They were also overweight. The one with frosted hair wasn’t ugly.
How do I know this!? We are casing the place out.