By Jordan Chariton and Jenn Dize
In October 2015, (click here) then-Michigan Governor Rick Snyder finally announced that Flint's water was contaminated with dangerous lead levels. That public admission had come after more than a year of pleading from the city's residents to examine the situation. The city, Snyder promised, would immediately stop using water from the Flint River, which residents had been drinking for 18 months.
The public announcement raised as many questions as it answered, and kick-started a years-long investigation into how the decision that delivered the toxic water to Flint had been made in the first place, how many people were sickened and killed as a result, and when senior government officials first learned of the deadly consequences....
The water supply to the residents of Flint, Michigan took place on April 2014. Almost immediately the people began to discover a problem with the water. Snyder didn't even recognize the problem until October 2015. What ensued when the water was switched was a cover-up to the deed and gross negligence of the government.
The Former Governor Snyder did not care about the people of Flint, Michigan. He cared about his friends and/or donors and didn't want to change a thing about his Emergency Manager law passed by his legislature. He liked the idea of micromanaging democracy and changed the lives of the people of Flint forever and not for the better.
The State of Michigan cannot look the other way. Governor Gretchen Whitmer was reelected for a second term. It is time she turn her attentions to investigate the gross negligence of the office of the Governor during Snyder's term, including not just, but, the entire of the administrations cover-ups and crony favoritism that parceled out land and created projects to grease the palms of their hands.
The gross negligence of Flint and the loss of life is only the beginning and it is time for a committee to investigate the crimes of the Governor, including Flint. The media cannot be the only method of knowing the dangers of such an administration and it cannot be the only venue of justice.
Below is a report of continued government negligence. When is it going to change?
By Ron Fonger
Flint - Two state agencies haven’t fixed oversight of some Flint water crisis programs (click here) a year after problems were first reported by the Michigan Office of Auditor General.
A new report issued last week says the Michigan Department of Education hasn’t resolved all issues related to insufficient monitoring of state funding for the Flint Community Schools’ school social worker program, which resulted in more than $1 million in unsupported spending and $316,371 in improper expenditures....
