national guard called into Flint

Leonthecat said:
Flint water mystery: How was decision made?

...The records, from Dillon's daily appointment schedule, show active state involvement immediately before and after the decision to make the Flint water switch, up to and including the offices of the treasurer, who oversees emergency managers, and the governor...
http://www.freep.com/story/news/pol...atives/760371[/url[/QUOTE] Sure Bucky, sure.
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Leonthecat said:
Flint doctor makes state see light about lead in water

Under the steady gaze of a watercolor giraffe and tissue paper butterflies, a Flint pediatrician and mother of two last month forced the state of Michigan to snap to attention.

But getting the state to concede the probability that Flint’s water is poisoning its children with lead — after months of assurances from both city and state officials that the water is safe — was far from easy.

It required Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, 38, to sidestep bureaucracy. It meant awkward conversations and putting her hospital — city-owned Hurley Medical Center — smack-dab in a political minefield.

And it meant checking her data “a zillion times,” she said, then second-guessing herself to the point of being physically ill when a state spokesman questioned her credibility.

Just hours after state officials acknowledged her data, Hanna-Attisha felt equal parts exhausted and vindicated — at one moment laughing at congratulatory e-mails and comments from colleagues (“Maybe they’ll give you a lead key to the city,” one had quipped), at another reciting sobering statistics about the life-long damage from lead poisoning: irreversible brain damage, development delays, speech problems, a boosted risk for behavioral issues, serious chronic conditions, to name a few.


DETROIT FREE PRESS
Q & A on Flint's water troubles

“It has been such a physiologic response,” she said of her look at the numbers and the state’s reaction. She sat in her office, where children’s artwork hangs haphazardly on the walls. A pink-lettered sign on her door — “This is my fight song,” it reads — pays homage to Hurley’s youngest cancer patients.

“At times I want to cry and then I’m so happy,” she said.

But then Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician for many of Flint’s poorest families whose training and experience has focused on environmental toxins and health disparities, shook her head.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/10/10/hanna-attisha-profile/73600120
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Sure Bucky, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
 
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Apologizes For Flint's Water Crisis
When the state switched the source of the city's water to save money, it introduced toxic levels of lead.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan's governor apologized on Tuesday for the state's mishandling of lead contamination in the city of Flint's water supply and accepted the resignation of the state official whose department was responsible.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of Dan Wynant, the head of the state Department of Environmental Quality, and was making other personnel changes at the department.
 
Leonthecat said:
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Apologizes For Flint's Water Crisis
When the state switched the source of the city's water to save money, it introduced toxic levels of lead.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan's governor apologized on Tuesday for the state's mishandling of lead contamination in the city of Flint's water supply and accepted the resignation of the state official whose department was responsible.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of Dan Wynant, the head of the state Department of Environmental Quality, and was making other personnel changes at the department.
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Right Bucky, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
 
Feds to investigate Flint, Snyder declares a state of emergency

The US Attorney's office announced yesterday that it will begin an investigation in the handling of the Flint water crisis, a move that many residents and advocates hope will lead to answers and accountability around decisions that have resulted in the lead contamination of the city's drinking water.

Following the news Governor Rick Snyder announced a state of emergency in Flint saying the decision was "due to the ongoing health and safety issues caused by lead in the city of Flint’s drinking water."

By declaring a state of emergency Flint can now access state resources, such as Michigan State Police's homeland security division. More noteworthy the move qualifies the city for federal aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who can now do a damage assessment.

"The state of Michigan will use its resources to the fullest possible extent during this emergency,” a statement by the Michigan Emergency Management, Homeland Security Division said. “If state and local resources are unable to cope with the emergency, the Governor may request federal assistance.”

While the declaration means more resources — and hopefully a quicker recovery for the devastated city — the news of a formal federal investigation into the whole affair is just as welcomed.
http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/arc...te-flint-snyder-declares-a-state-of-emergency

The feds will get to the bottom of this and Snyder is going down.
 
Snyder: Flint has seen spike in Legionnaires' disease
Daniel Bethencourt, Detroit Free Press 8:41 p.m. EST January 13, 2016
Since Flint switched its water source to the Flint River, officials have seen a spike in the number of cases of a severe form of pneumonia, called Legionnaires' disease — but officials say they're still looking for the cause.

There have been 87 cases in Genesee County from June 2014 to November 2015 — and 10 of those cases resulted in death, said Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, or MDHHS.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...nt-area-has-seen-spike-legionnaires/78750610/

Lead poisoning is not the only result of Snyder's cover-up.
Now ten people are dead.
 
State failed to sound alarm when it knew of rising Flint blood lead levels

FLINT, MI -- State officials found evidence of rising blood lead levels in Flint two months before the problem was exposed by a Flint pediatrician, but didn't immediately inform the public, according to documents released by a water researcher.

Michigan public health officials said today, Dec. 22, that they did not sound an alarm about the spike, which coincided with use of the Flint River for drinking water, because they initially believed the numbers represented a "seasonal fluctuation."

As a result of what happened in Flint, state officials now say that the way the state analyzes the data they collect needs to be "thoroughly reviewed."

Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards, a key figure in the Flint water crisis, released 159 pages of public records on his Web site this week, documents received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request to the state.

The records are a collection of emails and attachments, primarily from officials at the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, about Flint water.

The documents show:

Emails about blood lead levels in Flint date back to at least July 23 and by July 28, inner-office correspondence says the city's rising numbers warrant further investigation and that "there does appear to be a higher proportion of (elevated blood lead levels) last summer (2014) than usual."
A report prepared by the state DHHS's Child Health Epidemiology Section, which included data up to July 27, concluded "positive tests for (elevated blood lead levels) were higher than usual for children under age 16 living in the city of Flint during the months of July, August and September 2014."
A Sept. 11 email from Robert L. Scott of DHHS' Childhood Lead Poisoning Program tells others in the department that he has received a request for information about blood lead levels in Flint. "Sounds like there might be more to this than what we learned previously. Yikes," the email says.
Edwards said today, Dec. 22, that the documents show the state had evidence of elevated blood lead levels in Flint while the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Flint denied a public health problem with lead in the city's water supply.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/12/documents_show_state.html

Irrefutable evidence that Snyder's staff knew Flint kids were being poisoned and covered it up.
"Drink the water" they told residents
 
Superfreak said:
Yep... Desh thought that because MI has a Rep Governor that she would be able to blame him and call him a racist.

Fucking hilarious that the city is run by Dems and the city council that voted to change water supply is predominantly African American.
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Leonthecat said:
GOP, not government, to blame for Flint crisis
11:30 p.m. EST January 12, 2016
flint




We know that from the beginning Snyder and his appointed emergency managers denied any issues regarding Flint’s switch from the Detroit Water System to the Flint River. The lies and denial continued even after months of public outcry as people in Flint were forced to drink poisoned water. In this case, the man-made catastrophe unfolding in Flint is Snyder’s responsibility and he needs to be held accountable.

While it’s easy to look at this as a failure of government, any investigation that does more than scratch the surface shows the real issues at the heart of the Flint disaster: decades of Republican austerity policies cutting millions of dollars from local budgets and making it impossible to invest in infrastructure. Couple that with Snyder’s systemic dismantling of democracy by installing an unaccountable emergency manager and relentlessly putting profits and budget cuts over people, and lead-poisoned children is what you get. This wasn’t a failure of government. It was a perfect example of Republicans putting profits over people.

Had our representatives invested in our state’s water infrastructure over the years, Flint residents might not be dealing with lead poisoning. But they didn’t, for the same reasons they haven’t invested in other public goods. Snyder and his emergency managers chose cutting costs over public health and now people are suffering.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/01/12/letter-gop-blame-flint-water/78723406/
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yes we are well aware a democrat newspaper written by democrats will be trying to protect their fellow failure democrats ho poisoned people.
 
Patrick Bateman said:
yes we are well aware a democrat newspaper written by democrats will be trying to protect their fellow failure democrats ho poisoned people.
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...and republicans here will go to great lengths to protect a republican Governor who has admitted his guilt in covering up the poisoning of a city.
The crime here is not the decision to change water sources . The crime is telling people to drink the water when they knew it had been shown to be poisoned for months, as Snyder and his administration did.
Get it?
The feds do.
The governor does.
He knows he and his staff are in some very deep doo doo.
All indictments will be on republicans. Mark my words.
 
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