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jpak

(41,759 posts) Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:44 AM Feb 2016

Aide: Gov. wanted Flint fix without declaring emergency

Source: Detroit News

Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder could have declared a state emergency in Flint months before he did but was directing top staff to explore other options to fix the water contamination crisis, according to new administration emails released this weekend.

“Boss wants us to work through this without a disaster declaration if (possible),” Transformation Manager Rich Baird wrote in a Nov. 26 email to Col. Kriste Etue, director of the Michigan State Police.

Snyder eventually would declare a state emergency on Jan. 5, more than three months after he had first announced in October a “comprehensive action plan” for Flint, where experts had found elevated lead levels in water and the blood of some children.

Ari Adler, a spokesman for Snyder, said the governor had asked staff to “be prepared in many different ways” and have multiple plans for addressing the crisis. Baird, he said, was exploring what a state response would look like without an emergency declaration.

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Aide: Gov. wanted Flint fix without declaring emergency (Original Post) jpak Feb 2016 OP

Wow...can he be recalled / removed from office? datguy_6 Feb 2016 #1

Bad Governor. Needs to be fired. nt ladjf Feb 2016 #2

Snyder's vanity was more important than helping the citizens of Flint. procon Feb 2016 #3

What an ambitious asshole! Impeach the bastard already! Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #4

impeach??? nah he needs an orange jumpsuit and a perp walk dembotoz Feb 2016 #5

You have this emergency manager for the place but no emergency, nt bemildred Feb 2016 #6

Baird, he said, was exploring what a state response would look like without an emergency declaration chapdrum Feb 2016 #7

datguy_6

(176 posts)

1. Wow...can he be recalled / removed from office?

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:53 AM

Feb 2016

ladjf

(17,320 posts)

2. Bad Governor. Needs to be fired. nt

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:54 AM

Feb 2016

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Snyder's vanity was more important than helping the citizens of Flint.

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:10 AM

Feb 2016

He was more concerned about buffing his street creds with the GOP and looking like a take charge leader who didn't need any Big Government aid to fix the water problems. He didn't care about the people at all, just puffing up his own reputation.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)

4. What an ambitious asshole! Impeach the bastard already!

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:15 AM

Feb 2016

dembotoz

(16,835 posts)

5. impeach??? nah he needs an orange jumpsuit and a perp walk

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:40 AM

Feb 2016

cause what he did was criminal

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

6. You have this emergency manager for the place but no emergency, nt

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:45 AM

Feb 2016

chapdrum

(930 posts)

7. Baird, he said, was exploring what a state response would look like without an emergency declaration

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:45 PM

Feb 2016

Meanwhile, they all knew that Flint residents were drinking water that GM had rejected because it was corroding its parts.

Good thing this is the land of Exceptionalism.

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