You're a stupid, lying, racist blowhard who rarely makes sense, so I long ago stopped trying to figure out what's going on in that hat rack that sits atop your shoulders. And I especially don't know what "overreah" you're referring to, Scumbag.:think2:Loser!@#0:CountdownSlapping-silly90)):bigfingerazzkick(&^
You're a stupid, lying, racist blowhard who rarely makes sense, so I long ago stopped trying to figure out what's going on in that hat rack that sits atop your shoulders. And I especially don't know what "overreah" you're referring to, Scumbag.:think2:Loser!@#0:CountdownSlapping-silly90)):bigfingerazzkick(&^
Well, why don't you try reading what I said in the post, rather than the profile, Jagoff. You're pretending that what is put into a profile on an internet is important, but that lying about the size of a Romney crowd that you claim to have attended in discussing politics, that's no big deal, is that your stance? And if the "...Michigan Gov had nothing to do with water problem in Flint" why did he finally apologize and why are the feds getting involved, you fucking moron. It's scary how fucking stupid you are.
Marc Edwards, a professor at Virginia Tech who has been testing Flint water, says treatment could have corrected much of the problem early on — for as little as $100 a day — but officials in the city of 100,000 people didn't take action.
"There is no question that if the city had followed the minimum requirements under federal law that none of this would have happened," said Edwards, who obtained the Muchmore email through a Michigan Freedom of Information Act request.
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so the person testing the water blames it on the inaction of city officials, but the fucking idiot chooses to blame the governor
shocking
if the Governor were democratic, he's blame it on the Republican Congress, he's that guy
he's the reason democrats live in slums and below the poverty lines, he's represents his party well
libtarded and proud
"There is no question that if the city had followed the minimum requirements under federal law that none of this would have happened," said Edwards, who obtained the Muchmore email through a Michigan Freedom of Information Act request.
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so the person testing the water blames it on the inaction of city officials, but the fucking idiot chooses to blame the governor
shocking
if the Governor were democratic, he's blame it on the Republican Congress, he's that guy
he's the reason democrats live in slums and below the poverty lines, he's represents his party well
libtarded and proud
Yeah, "officials...didn't take action." That's the POINT, you fucking moron. Did you miss the part of the story that said "Last year, the city's unelected emergency manager switched the city's water source from the Detroit system to the long-polluted Flint River in an attempt to save money." The buck stops here, you brain dead cocksucker, the governor replaced the duly elected official with some stooge, then denied each and every report that said there was a problem with the water until it was apparent that story was obviously a lie. It's not POSSIBLE you're really that stupid, is it? I guess it is...
Still think Snyder had "nothing to do with," Scumbag?
http://www.commondreams.org/news/20...and-pile-lawsuits-snyder-address-flint-crisis
1:37 p.m. EST January 20, 2016
Governor Rick Snyder addresses the Flint water crisis during his State of the State speech on Tuesday January 19, 2016 at the state Capitol Building in Lansing.(Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo
LANSING — Facing the biggest crisis of his five years as governor, demands for his resignation and even calls for his criminal prosecution, Gov. Rick Snyder accepted major responsibility for the Flint drinking water catastrophe in his State of the State address Tuesday and set out short-term plans and long-term promises to put things right.
"I'm sorry and I will fix it," Snyder said near the opening of his 50-minute speech, directly addressing the residents of Flint. "You did not create this crisis, and you do not deserve this."
"Government failed you at the federal, state and local level," Snyder said. "We need to make sure this never happens again in any Michigan city."
Snyder pledged to release his 2014 and 2015 e-mails related to the crisis, which many groups have requested as a step toward greater transparency. The governor's office is exempt from the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
Snyder spokesman Dave Murray said officials are uploading the e-mails, and he hopes they will be posted on the governor’s website sometime Wednesday morning. They will represent all e-mails sent to or from the governor regarding Flint water in 2014 and 2015, with only certain personal information possibly redacted, he said.
Murray said any e-mails sent or received on Snyder’s personal e-mail account should also be covered, because the governor forwards all government-related e-mails to his government account.
Reaction was mixed. Democrats said they were outraged and expressed concern the e-mails Snyder releases will be incomplete and "cherry picked."
Republicans were much more supportive. "He owned up to it and he said we're going to fix it — that's good," said Sen. Mike Nofs, R-Battle Creek.
But Sen. Curtis Hertel, D-Meridian Township, said it took national media attention to focus Snyder and his administration on addressing the problem with Flint's water.
"It's good that there's a plan coming around, but it's a little late," Hertel said.
Laura Sullivan, a professor at Kettering University in Flint who was among a small group of city residents who pushed to get attention for the drinking water problem, said Snyder "sounded very sincere" and she believes the state is finally moving in the right direction on the crisis.
But Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, said Snyder delivered "lip service and passing the buck" instead of "a comprehensive, actionable plan to make this right."
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Finally, the start of a remedy for Flint
Snyder, a Republican, devoted almost the entire speech to the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water supply and steps he will take to address the health and educational needs of Flint children exposed to lead.
But he also highlighted the critical importance of finding a financial fix for Detroit Public Schools, while also highlighting the improved financial prospects of the City of Detroit a year after emerging from a Chapter 9 bankruptcy initiated and largely managed by the state.
"Detroit schools are in need of a transformational change," Snyder said. "Let's solve this problem and help the kids. The time to act is now and avoid court intervention."
Beyond Detroit Public Schools, Snyder announced a commission on 21st Century education, tasked with improving Michigan's school performance across the state. He said he wants the new commission to report by November.
But Snyder's main focus was the City of Flint and its drinking water.
Snyder used the speech to thank pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Hurley Children's Hospital, who was in the audience in the House chamber, and Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards, who was not. The two professionals forced Michigan government to lift a cloak of denial and finally acknowledge, around Oct. 1, a problem of lead leaching into Flint drinking water that began in April of 2014.
Snyder gave no signs he plans to resign from office with a little less than three years remaining in his final term, saying he wants to stay on and put things right, aides said.
Flint initiatives Snyder highlighted, either in the speech or in documents released at the time of his speech, include:
- Ramping up the number of Michigan National Guard troops in Flint from fewer than 100 currently to about 200, with plans for the troops to staff water stations while the Red Cross and other volunteers complete visits to all of the city's roughly 33,000 households this week.
- Appealing President Barack Obama's refusal to declare a federal disaster in Flint when he declared a federal emergency there on Saturday. A federal disaster declaration, which is reserved for natural disasters, would make greater amounts of federal funding available.
- Asking the Legislature for a $28.5-million supplemental appropriation to cover immediate Flint needs, such as the cost of bottled water and filters and troops from the Michigan National Guard, which Snyder mobilized Jan. 12 after declaring a state of emergency on Jan. 5.
- Including in that appropriation about $2 million to support Flint utilities and stop any threatened shut-off of water customers, while the state and the city work on a broader plan to address the problem of Flint residents being billed for water they can't drink.
- Also included is close to $1 million to increase the number of nurses and other health professionals in Flint-area schools and about $120,000 as a first step in expanding capacity at child and adolescent health centers.
- Expanding age eligibility for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) healthy nutrition program. Experts say good nutrition minimizes the impact of lead exposure.
- Testing and replacing faucets and other fixtures at schools and other public facilities that could be potential sources for the leaching of lead.
A key Republican pledged quick action on the supplemental request for Flint. Rep. Al Pscholka, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said after the speech he expects the bill will clear both his committee and the full House on Wednesday.
Snyder officials stressed that the supplemental appropriation for 2016 is only a first step in addressing Flint's needs. They said Budget Director John Roberts is reworking the 2016-17 budget that Snyder will present on Feb. 10 to address longer-term health and infrastructure needs.
"This will not be the last budget request for Flint," Snyder said.
Democratic lawmakers wore blue scarves or clothing to symbolize support for Flint. They also wore buttons that said "What did you know and when did you know it?" in reference to Snyder, and "No exemptions for transparency."
Flint was under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager when, in a cost-cutting move, the city temporarily switched its source of drinking water from Lake Huron water treated by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to Flint River water treated at the Flint water treatment plant. State Department of Environmental Quality officials have admitted they made a disastrous mistake when they failed to require the addition of needed corrosion control chemicals. As a result, the corrosive Flint River water caused lead to leach into the drinking water, though where any leaching occurred and how severe it was depended on many factors, such as what type of line connected a home to the street and what the internal plumbing fixtures were like.
Snyder said the story began when the Flint City Council voted in 2013 to switch from Detroit water to join communities supporting a new Karegnondi Water Authority pipeline to Lake Huron. But Dayne Walling, who was mayor then, said at the time of the vote the city intended to stay on Detroit water until the new pipeline was completed. Instead, Flint emergency manager Ed Kurtz opted to use the Flint River as an interim supply when Flint and Detroit — both under state-appointed emergency managers at the time — could not agree on an interim price.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Report: Snyder concedes Flint mistakes, also blames bureaucrats
Ananich said the amount of money in the supplemental bill is "a start, but we’re going to be in this for the long haul."
"I hope the Legislature and the governor understand that we all have a responsibility to fix this problem and it’s going to be important for all of us to focus on getting it right whatever that dollar amount might be," Ananich said.
Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, commended Snyder's speech.
"The crisis in Flint demonstrates a need for greater accountability and reforms to our state government systems," Meekhof said. "Bloated, unresponsive bureaucracy does not meet the needs of our citizens.
"The citizens of Michigan deserve a responsive, competent team of employees and administrators that value accountability, safety and customer service above red tape."
Meekhof also said Republicans in the Senate are ready to tackle reform of Detroit Public Schools.
Hanna-Attisha, the Hurley Children's Hospital pediatrician whose findings of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint children were first dismissed but later embraced by the Snyder administration, said "our community has been through so much, but Flint is loyal and resilient and we hope this is just a speed bump.
"We’ve become the forgotten city," Hanna-Attisha said. "We need to garner the attention and resources to build a better Flint.”
Among the demonstrators outside the Capitol before the speech Tuesday were three residents of Battle Creek, Snyder's home town. Al and Bonnie DiGennaro traveled to Lansing with a protest sign and their neighbor, Veroneze Strader.
Al DiGennaro said he wants to see Snyder announce a plan to test Flint children and remediate the damage. "This is a crisis," he said.
DiGennaro's wife Bonnie said she doesn't want to hear talk about the need for more studies. "It's criminal that people in the administration knew the water was full of lead and were telling people it was safe to drink," she said.
Dafinch is so dumb he will believe just about anything...and like most dumb fuck liberals looks to blame a Republican.
I am from Detroit, Flint is a Democratic haven. It was a blustering city at one time, although still had a lot of low income areas. It has been under Democratic rule for so long, I don't even think there is a Republican in their city council. If so, it would be a very, very small minority.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency — whose Democratic chief was appointed by our Democratic president — knew for months that there were concerns about Flint’s water, and did nothing. In sum: The Democratic government of a Democratic city destroys that city’s finances so thoroughly that it must go into state receivership; a Democratic emergency manager (Ed Kurtz) signs off on a consensus plan to use a temporary water source; the municipal authorities in that Democratic city responsible for treating and monitoring drinking water fail to do their job; a state agency whose employees work under the tender attention of SEIU Local 517 fails to do its job overseeing the local authorities; Barack Obama’s EPA, having been informed about the issue, keeps mum. Republican scandal.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430072/flint-lead-water-scandal
I am from Detroit, Flint is a Democratic haven. It was a blustering city at one time, although still had a lot of low income areas. It has been under Democratic rule for so long, I don't even think there is a Republican in their city council. If so, it would be a very, very small minority.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency — whose Democratic chief was appointed by our Democratic president — knew for months that there were concerns about Flint’s water, and did nothing. In sum: The Democratic government of a Democratic city destroys that city’s finances so thoroughly that it must go into state receivership; a Democratic emergency manager (Ed Kurtz) signs off on a consensus plan to use a temporary water source; the municipal authorities in that Democratic city responsible for treating and monitoring drinking water fail to do their job; a state agency whose employees work under the tender attention of SEIU Local 517 fails to do its job overseeing the local authorities; Barack Obama’s EPA, having been informed about the issue, keeps mum. Republican scandal.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430072/flint-lead-water-scandal
Flint's woes began before the water, but it's all related
The past three decades have been rough for Flint. Like many blue-collar Michigan towns, it was fueled by the auto industry. General Motors plants kept it afloat for much of its prosperous history. But in the 1980s and 1990s, those plants began to close their doors, and when the jobs left, so did many of the people.
A steady decline in population has been matched by a steady rise in violent crime. It's consistently ranked among the most dangerous cities in America.
According to local officials, about 40% of residents are below the poverty rate. Fifteen percent of homes are boarded up and abandoned. Weaver says the city of 100,000 doesn't even have a grocery store. And now its residents don't have clean water either.
High levels of lead found in Flint water 01:01
In 2011, Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency, and the state took budgetary control. Therefore, all the decisions made during the water crisis were at the state level, which state officials confirmed, not by the City Council or the mayor.
"When the governor appointed an emergency financial manager (in 2011), that person came here ... to simply do one thing and one thing only, and that's cut the budget, at any cost," said Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee.
The past three decades have been rough for Flint. Like many blue-collar Michigan towns, it was fueled by the auto industry. General Motors plants kept it afloat for much of its prosperous history. But in the 1980s and 1990s, those plants began to close their doors, and when the jobs left, so did many of the people.
A steady decline in population has been matched by a steady rise in violent crime. It's consistently ranked among the most dangerous cities in America.
According to local officials, about 40% of residents are below the poverty rate. Fifteen percent of homes are boarded up and abandoned. Weaver says the city of 100,000 doesn't even have a grocery store. And now its residents don't have clean water either.
High levels of lead found in Flint water 01:01
In 2011, Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency, and the state took budgetary control. Therefore, all the decisions made during the water crisis were at the state level, which state officials confirmed, not by the City Council or the mayor.
"When the governor appointed an emergency financial manager (in 2011), that person came here ... to simply do one thing and one thing only, and that's cut the budget, at any cost," said Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee.
The head of EPA’s Region 5 covering the Midwest told The Detroit News last week her department was aware since April that Flint water was not being treated with chemicals to prevent lead from leaching — a situation that its water expert said would put residents at risk for contamination. The agency did not alert the public to those concerns.
Barely a word of this is true, you laughable fucking liar.
1st: Want to guess the political party of the emergency manager?
2nd: The Flint City Council, all Democrats, signed off on this plan according to the Democratic emergency manager.
This sums you up well:
The Democratic government of a Democratic city destroys that city’s finances so thoroughly that it must go into state receivership; a Democratic emergency manager signs off on a consensus plan to use a temporary water source; the municipal authorities in that Democratic city responsible for treating and monitoring drinking water fail to do their job; a state agency whose employees work under the tender attention of SEIU Local 517 fails to do its job overseeing the local authorities; Barack Obama’s EPA, having been informed about the issue, keeps mum.
Republican scandal.
You are so gullible and dumb it is comical.
The decision to separate from DWSD and go with the Karegnondi Water Authority, including the decision to pump Flint river water in the interim, were both a part of a long-term plan that was approved by Flint’s Mayor, and confirmed by a City Council vote of 7-1 in March of 2013 - a full seven months before I began my term as Emergency Manager. That vote was supported and signed into emergency order by then Emergency Manager Edward Kurtz on March 29, 2013. It was my responsibility to implement the previously accepted and approved plan as the contract with DWSD expired in April 2014 during my term as EM. It did not fall to me to second guess or to invalidate the actions that were taken prior to my appointment.
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The Governor put his stooge in there!!!This type of beclowning folks is what happens when you get your "facts" from the Daily Kos.
^ The Democrat who implemented the Democrat's plan for Flint's water.
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The Governor put his stooge in there!!!
This type of beclowning folks is what happens when you get your "facts" from the Daily Kos.
^ The Democrat who implemented the Democrat's plan for Flint's water.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's scary how fucking stupid you and that lying, welching idiot A-sap are: Emergency Managers don't run for office. The "long term plan approved by the Mayor and council" was mandated by the previous Emergency Manager. The Mayor and council were powerless to do anything and probably got some concessions in return for their endorsement.. Both Emergency Managers were appointed by and directly answerable to the Governor. Clearly the Governor took over full control and was responsible-that's why there are calls for HIM to resign, Jagoff. We don't know the party of the previous EM but it doesn't matter.
To say this is a Democratic scandal makes about as much sense as saying that Obama ruined the economy and Bush was blameless-oh, wait, that's what idiot like you DO say, you blubber bellied, limp dicked, I-own-a-yahct-and-have-a-Playmate-wife, lying sack of shit.kth)(&^Loser!@#0cockingasnook()Slapping-silly90)):bigfinger:trx-smly0:kissingbb:madasshol:fckmad:
So Dumbfinch, now that your story has been completely destroyed about the R governor being responsible, you are going to make innuendoes about where the emergency manager got his marching orders. You also totally disregarded the Mayor and city councils decision to change the water supply source, seven months before the "appointed" emergency manager took office.
In addition, the mess that was created by an all democratic city, chock full of unions and Medicaid recipients for 50 years, and blame the most recent elected governor. I'm sure Flint's water supply was #1 on the Governors list of things to fix when he took office.
Good shit gay bird, you fit right in here with the rest of the liberal hacks.
In addition, the mess that was created by an all democratic city, chock full of unions and Medicaid recipients for 50 years, and blame the most recent elected governor. I'm sure Flint's water supply was #1 on the Governors list of things to fix when he took office.
Good shit gay bird, you fit right in here with the rest of the liberal hacks.
"it was my responsibility to implement the previously accepted and approved plan as the contract DWSD expired in April 2014 during my term as EM"
Dafinch says he traded concessions with the governor and was ordered to do so. Holy fuck are you dumb.
This thread is nearly as bad for you as your infamous Ben Carson thread.
Dafinch says he traded concessions with the governor and was ordered to do so. Holy fuck are you dumb.
This thread is nearly as bad for you as your infamous Ben Carson thread.
