Top 9 Nauseating, Infuriating And Incendiary Quotes From Rick Snyder's Flint Email Dump

December 30, 2015, e-mail from then communications director Meegan Holland to Richard Baird:

“Can we deploy appropriate personnel from other county health agencies to help inspecting homes for possible other causes? In other words, it won’t do any good to invest more in water infrastructure if we’re finding window sills with teeth marks. I say this NOT to downplay the role that water lead levels may have played. But can we get Habitat for Humanity for example, to do a massive volunteer effort to eradicate lead paint in homes… or is that beyond their expertise.”

November 13, 2015 e-mail from Capt. Chris Kelenske of Michigan State Police to governor’s office:

“As you know the Governor can declare (an emergency) at any time for any reason.” This contradicts governor's office line that they waited until Jan. 5 to declare a state of emergency because the locals had to make the declaration first.

Explaining the consequences of an emergency declaration, Kelenske went on to say :

"The state will formally own the event if we put a Governor's declaration in place...This could be viewed as the state having owned up to how the water issue was caused." And admitting that "the triggering event" was caused by the state.

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March 2, 2015 e-mail from Dennis Muchmore, the governor's chief of staff, to Wayne Workman in Treasury:

"It's in the city's long term interest to make the KWA work and we can make the river water safe, but we need to work with the ministers this week to help them out. It's tough for everyday people to listen to financial issues and water mumbo jumbo when all they see is problems. You can't expect the ministers to hold the tide on this problem. How about cutting a deal with Ice Mountain or Bill Young and buying some water for the people for a time? $250K buys a lot of drinking water and we could distribute it through the churches while we continue to make the water even safer. If we procrastinate much longer in doing something direct we'll have real trouble."

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http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/29/10-most-troubling-quotes-snyder/81109548/