September 23, 2017
By Paul Egan
Speaking to reporters at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Snyder said the charges Attorney General Bill Schuette has brought against 15 people — who include seven current state employees — are having "a major impact on state employee morale."
"I've actually had people tell me they took retirement or people didn't want to take a job because of this environment," he said.
"They were charged how many months ago and what has happened?" Snyder asked. "It's been well over a year," and "what has it done to your life in the meantime?"
"All of us have an expectation our justice system works faster than that."...
Snyder should have resigned over the events in Flint. That didn't happen and the employees are the scapegoats to his reckless leadership.
September 23, 2017
By Jonathan Oosting
Mackinac Island — Michigan (click here) is losing state employees because their peers are facing prosecution by Attorney General Bill Schuette in a nearly two-year probe of the Flint water crisis, Gov. Rick Snyder said Saturday.
Snyder, speaking with reporters at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, defended Michigan Health and Human Services Department Director Nick Lyon and questioned the speed of other cases he said has damaged state employee morale.
Schuette and Special Prosecutor Todd Flood have charged or reached plea deals with 15 former state and Flint officials in connection with the lead contamination of Flint’s drinking water and a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that killed 12 and sickened another 79 individuals in the Flint area.
“We’ve lost people that have left state government because they don’t want to have that hanging over their head,” Snyder said. “I’ve had people tell me they’ve had retirements or people deciding they didn’t want to take a job because of this environment.”...
