Better said, she MUST speak up ESPECIALLY with an emergency manager. There is no law that stops her from being Flint's Mayor and demanding what is right for the people of Flint. Her responsibilities are demanding and difficult, but, requires her to look out for the people. She seems perfectly able to be Mayor with the problems Flint faces.
February 2, 2016
By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- Mayor Karen Weaver (click here) is calling for immediate removal of lead pipes from Flint's water distribution system, and is expected to detail her request at a news conference later Tuesday, Feb. 2.
A news release from the mayor says she will be joined by mayors from Baltimore and Lansing in the news conference as well as former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and "Flint community leaders."
Replacing all of Flint's lead service lines has been estimated to cost more than $60 million.
The lines have been blamed for lead that is leaching into Flint tap water after the Flint River was used as the city's drinking water source from April 2014 until October 2015....
The Republican Establishment is scared to death of the Flint Water Crisis. The Flint Water Crisis is real and was caused by the self-righteous Republican Governor Rick Snyder. The Republican Establishment knows this is going to blow up in their face. There are cities and towns all over the USA now examining the lead content in their water. This is going to explode.
Look. That is just to bad. I was appalled and completely astounded by the fact George Walker Bush's first action as President was to return arsenic to the USA water standards.
I don't know what it is, but, Republicans hate public control of anything and they make water a danger in everyone's life. How much bottled water is pouring into Flint, a city that had some of the best water quality the USA could have for 50 years. Glacial water from the lakes.
EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy stated, "...the water supply to Flint was switched to untreated water...with high caustic qualities that introduced lead in high levels to Flint's water..."
UNTREATED. That is what Republicans want. They want disdain of government to end it. What better way than poisoning the public water supply.
What else did the US EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy find in that water we aren't talking about?
I am sure this is not the first go round for the Obama EPA Administration and water quality. HOWEVER, the problems that exists around the county, including Chicago, is a matter of discovery, finding the source and ending the pollution. That is primarily the issue.
But, Flint is different.
Flint had clean water. The Republican majority Michigan legislature in the first months of Snyder's governorship ran to create an emergency manager law that did everything including pretending to circumvent federal laws.
This was a new law unlike any other. Michigan had Financial Emergency Managers with the purpose to act before and TO PREVENT disastrous economic conditions for a city or town. The law Snyder wanted went far beyond that law and sank city and town after town into bankruptcy selling every asset to his cronies and private industry, INCLUDING, the water pipeline that brought clean water to Flint for fifty years. He did it without any reverence for federal law.
He did it regardless the health and safety of impoverished children that are now damaged for the rest of their lives.
Snyder and his demands for fiscal efficacy of Michigan cities and towns is criminal. His actions in administering the legislated law is heinous and predatory.
A governor is suppose to care about the people of his state, not look for every place to rob them and pad his cronies wallets.
The Establishment Republicans are afraid of Snyder's antics and now the entire country is going to take a long look at whom exactly is compromising their public water supply. There is no reason for it. The American people should be able to turn on their faucets without fear. But, to have a city's water UNTREATED and allowing that to permanently damage children is unconscionable.
The sale of the water pipeline to Detroit was sold so Flint COULD NOT hook up to the Detroit water system again, because, the elected Mayor and Council wanted it back even if it had to wait until the emergency management was over. Snyder DELIBERATELY sold that pipeline to end Flint's ability to receive clean water from Detroit again!
This is no mistake. This is Snyder.
February 2, 2016By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- Mayor Karen Weaver (click here) is calling for immediate removal of lead pipes from Flint's water distribution system, and is expected to detail her request at a news conference later Tuesday, Feb. 2.
A news release from the mayor says she will be joined by mayors from Baltimore and Lansing in the news conference as well as former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and "Flint community leaders."
Replacing all of Flint's lead service lines has been estimated to cost more than $60 million.
The lines have been blamed for lead that is leaching into Flint tap water after the Flint River was used as the city's drinking water source from April 2014 until October 2015....
The Republican Establishment is scared to death of the Flint Water Crisis. The Flint Water Crisis is real and was caused by the self-righteous Republican Governor Rick Snyder. The Republican Establishment knows this is going to blow up in their face. There are cities and towns all over the USA now examining the lead content in their water. This is going to explode.
Look. That is just to bad. I was appalled and completely astounded by the fact George Walker Bush's first action as President was to return arsenic to the USA water standards.
I don't know what it is, but, Republicans hate public control of anything and they make water a danger in everyone's life. How much bottled water is pouring into Flint, a city that had some of the best water quality the USA could have for 50 years. Glacial water from the lakes.
EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy stated, "...the water supply to Flint was switched to untreated water...with high caustic qualities that introduced lead in high levels to Flint's water..."
What else did the US EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy find in that water we aren't talking about?
I am sure this is not the first go round for the Obama EPA Administration and water quality. HOWEVER, the problems that exists around the county, including Chicago, is a matter of discovery, finding the source and ending the pollution. That is primarily the issue.
But, Flint is different.
Flint had clean water. The Republican majority Michigan legislature in the first months of Snyder's governorship ran to create an emergency manager law that did everything including pretending to circumvent federal laws.
This was a new law unlike any other. Michigan had Financial Emergency Managers with the purpose to act before and TO PREVENT disastrous economic conditions for a city or town. The law Snyder wanted went far beyond that law and sank city and town after town into bankruptcy selling every asset to his cronies and private industry, INCLUDING, the water pipeline that brought clean water to Flint for fifty years. He did it without any reverence for federal law.
He did it regardless the health and safety of impoverished children that are now damaged for the rest of their lives.
Snyder and his demands for fiscal efficacy of Michigan cities and towns is criminal. His actions in administering the legislated law is heinous and predatory.
A governor is suppose to care about the people of his state, not look for every place to rob them and pad his cronies wallets.
The Establishment Republicans are afraid of Snyder's antics and now the entire country is going to take a long look at whom exactly is compromising their public water supply. There is no reason for it. The American people should be able to turn on their faucets without fear. But, to have a city's water UNTREATED and allowing that to permanently damage children is unconscionable.
The sale of the water pipeline to Detroit was sold so Flint COULD NOT hook up to the Detroit water system again, because, the elected Mayor and Council wanted it back even if it had to wait until the emergency management was over. Snyder DELIBERATELY sold that pipeline to end Flint's ability to receive clean water from Detroit again!
This is no mistake. This is Snyder.
