Oh for God’s sake. You KNEW the water was bad when you told Flint to use it. Don’t start the Katrina analogy as if it were a force of nature…YOU and your greedy ass jerks that tried to run Michigan as your own private housing project are to blame.
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“No. It’s a disaster. And like all Republicans I am completely useless when I try to deal with a disaster. We’re all gonna die.”
“But that was a heckuva job, Brownie.”
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Every state with a Republican governor and Republican majority state legislators is effectively a disaster area, or a disaster in the making.
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He also dodged the magazine’s questions about exactly when the state found out about the Flint water supply’s toxic lead levels.
Doesn’t Michigan have some kind of open records law? Lead testing by a state or federal agency would leave a pretty damn solid paper trail. I hope someone is moving fast to get those records before they get erased.
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He also dodged the magazine’s questions about exactly when the state found out about the Flint
water supply’s toxic lead levels.
We must concern ourselves with two basic questions here. What did the Governor know and when did he stop knowing it?
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Shorter Rick Snyder (channeling Rumsfeld): “As you know, ah, you go to the tap and drink the water you have—not the water you might want or wish to have at a later time.” (compassionate conservatism on parade).
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Michigan does not require disclosure by the executive branch.
Fortunately, there is more than enough evidence of malfeasance in the record. MI DEQ lied to the EPA about whether or not they had added buffering agents to the river water (known to be acidic) to prevent corrosion.
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Resign.
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Nah, just let it be his water source for the rest of that addle-pated louse, aka Guv Snyders, miserable life.
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Resign. Now.
Before you cause any further disasters.
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…Hey, SnidelyWhiplash…Corrosive water in lead pipes is NOT a natural disaster. You allowed this to happen.
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And then expect the Feds to clean up the mess AFTER all his cronies have cleaned up the cash.
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Also the sole source of water for his family–a Flint resident interviewed on NPR indicated she feels just as guilty as the government about the lead because she is the one who handed the glass of water to her child. . .Snyder and his appointed minions need to pay for this crap and feel the same pain as this parent.
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The worst part about this whole mess is that any competent water professional who was not a political hack would have known to test the source water for contaminants and for the potential for corrosion of existing infrastructure. It’s Water 101.
The Governor’s head of DEQ ‘took the bullet for the Governor’, but all the apologies by the Governor are not going to fix the health of children.
“It’s clearly a negative on what we’ve accomplished since I’ve been governor,”
Are we supposed to feel sorry for this idiot? Order the repairs be made with State funds and resign.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
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In other words, you intend to blame the President for it, right?
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Katrina?
This was not in any sense a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster pure and simple and the responsibility ultimately rests on Rick Snyder. He appointed the Flint emergency manager. He did not take reports of illness in Flint seriously. It has been two years. There was a disdain for the people of Flint coupled with a crude desire to save money without exercise of the due diligence to ensure that a switch to Flint River water would be safe.
They are trying to downplay this by minimizing the number of affected children. But the number of children testing positive for circulating lead vastly underestimates exposure, because as the pediatrician who broke this open and pressured the Manager and the Snyder administration for months has pointed out, these measurements were taken months after most people had stopped drinking the water. The lifetime of circulating lead is only about 30 days, after which it becomes incorporated into tissues – but in those tissues, in the brain, in organs - the liver, kidneys, it will continue to have toxic effects for life.
This is an unspeakable tragedy but one for which there really are culpable individuals. This did not just “happen”. This was not an “accident”. This willful negligence. That is a legal term:
“Intentional performance of an unreasonable act in disregard of a known risk, making it highly probable that harm will be
caused. Willful negligence usually involves a conscious indifference to the consequences.”
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Right Guv, but the disaster in Flint was caused by you and your minions in charge of running the city NOT by mother nature.
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I’m hoping that you’re just being snarky and don’t actually believe this. This was a state run fiasco from the very start. The city of Flint was under the control of an emergency manager, appointed by the Governor, and under his total authority. The city council was opposed to changing water providers, but had no power to prevent it. This was never anything to do with national supervision. Michigan’s DEQ lied to EPA on several instances about using anti-corrosion chemicals and about actual lead concentrations in the water. Thousands of people have been exposed to lead in the water supplies and we really don’t know what the end results will be.
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so governor snide, if the flint child poisoning = katrina, does that make you bush, brown, or the hurricane itself?
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Well except one minor detail, the Katrina disaster was started by nature, the Flint water crisis is completely man made
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