From the Las Vegas Sun: Gov. Brian Sandoval is defending his decision to allow the use of a Nevada Air National Guard aircraft to fly a critically ill woman to an Oregon hospital for life-saving treatment.
The request for the special flight on Dec. 28 came from Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, where the woman was a patient, Sandoval said. He said the Air Guard asked for his authorization as the state's commander in chief.
Sandoval declined to discuss the woman's illness or any other details about her condition, citing respect for patient privacy. He said neither he nor any of his staff are related to the woman or have any other connections to her.
A spokeswoman for the governor said he does not know the woman's identity. She could not get the treatment she needed in northern Nevada, Sandoval said.
"So we had to take extraordinary measures to get her there," he said. "It was my understanding that that there are only two facilities in the United States that could treat her condition, and a hospital in Oregon was one of them." http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/feb/01/sandoval-defends-use-guard-flight-transport-sick-w/
The Nevada media is making a big deal about this but why.
At the very least, this could have been classified as a training mission and I beats having a plane fly around in circles.
And this is a good use of tax payer money and it probably saved the woman's life.
But the Nevada media and some liberals (one in the same) are making a big deal about it.
Just because they hate Sandoval and they want to give him the Chris Christie treatment.
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