Snyder cannot argue that he didn't know about the water poisoning. He was changing the water state employees were drinking to bottled water.
One of Snyder's defenses in the early days of PUBLIC AWARENESS was that he was not aware of these problems. And he INSISTS now all these dire problems come directly to his desk.
That is a lie. The USA EPA was sending notices to the State of Michigan about the Flint River water for some time without any reply at all. No one is going to tell me the Governor didn't know about a water emergency brought about by switching the Flint River as a source when the US EPA was writing letters.
I find it very odd that there was little to know acknowledgement by the Governor's office during the time the US EPA was sending letters and now he is stating statutory time limits to legal proceedings. Very odd indeed. How many states in the USA simply ignore the federal government then they get a letter that effects their citizens? That shows negligence of the public trust and reason for impeachment.
His legal defense was premeditated.
Public awareness to the extent of the poisoning started with this:
January 14, 2016
By Sarah Kaplan
More disturbing news (click here) has come for residents of Flint, Mich., who are already reeling from an escalating health crisis tied to their city’s lead-contaminated water supply.
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday that the city and the surrounding area have seen a spike in cases of Legionnaires’ disease — a bacterial infection that can be deadly for between 5 to 30 percent of those who contract it.
So far, 87 cases have been diagnosed since June, two months after Flint changed its water source to the Flint River, the Detroit Free Press reported. Ten of those cases were fatal....
One of Snyder's defenses in the early days of PUBLIC AWARENESS was that he was not aware of these problems. And he INSISTS now all these dire problems come directly to his desk.
That is a lie. The USA EPA was sending notices to the State of Michigan about the Flint River water for some time without any reply at all. No one is going to tell me the Governor didn't know about a water emergency brought about by switching the Flint River as a source when the US EPA was writing letters.
I find it very odd that there was little to know acknowledgement by the Governor's office during the time the US EPA was sending letters and now he is stating statutory time limits to legal proceedings. Very odd indeed. How many states in the USA simply ignore the federal government then they get a letter that effects their citizens? That shows negligence of the public trust and reason for impeachment.
His legal defense was premeditated.
Public awareness to the extent of the poisoning started with this:
January 14, 2016
By Sarah Kaplan
More disturbing news (click here) has come for residents of Flint, Mich., who are already reeling from an escalating health crisis tied to their city’s lead-contaminated water supply.
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday that the city and the surrounding area have seen a spike in cases of Legionnaires’ disease — a bacterial infection that can be deadly for between 5 to 30 percent of those who contract it.
So far, 87 cases have been diagnosed since June, two months after Flint changed its water source to the Flint River, the Detroit Free Press reported. Ten of those cases were fatal....
