Rick Snyder faces hometown backlash over Flint water crisis

from the Detroit Free Press:



[font size="4"]Wanted posters, angry sidewalk messages greet governor in downtown Ann Arbor[/font]

ANN ARBOR — Bitterly cold winds whip around Susan Fecteau as she reaches into a chalk-filled bucket, gets down on her hands and knees and writes a message to Gov. Rick Snyder on the sidewalk in front of his residential loft in the heart of downtown Ann Arbor.

"How are you sleeping up there, Rick? The moms in Flint not enjoying their rest, I think," Fecteau writes in green chalk.

The message is one of dozens Fecteau has written in the past six weeks outside Snyder's home on South Main Street and the various establishments he frequents in the city.

For Fecteau, sidewalk chalking has become a personal cathartic release of anger, but she's not alone.

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Protests, wanted posters with the Snyder's face boldly affixed to utility poles around the city, and a well-publicized heckling incident at a local tavern are signs that the bustling college town where Snyder has spent a chunk of his adult life could be turning against him, Fecteau and other residents said. .............(more)

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