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Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by audiophile » Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:31 pm

Calley is a good guy!


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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:11 pm

OK - so we have one mention so far. :)



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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by TC Talks » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:58 pm

audiophile wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:31 pm
Calley is a good guy!
Calley was likely not as capable as Muchmore to be in the center of this issue.


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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by fuzzpower » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:10 pm

What about Flint City council voting for this? I know they had an EM, but why is their role ignored?



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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by MWmetalhead » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:32 pm

I'm more curious about former mayor, Wayne Walling, who seemed perfectly willing to ignore his citizens who raised concerns regarding the taste, color, and abrasiveness of the water. He was also a big proponent of making the switch (even though the water treatment plant was ill-prepared to properly treat the water it was sourcing from the Flint River, something he arguably should have been able to determine).

I'm unsure if the council members sat silent or pleaded for the EMs to take action to correct the water quality issues.



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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by fuzzpower » Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:35 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:32 pm
I'm more curious about former mayor, Wayne Walling, who seemed perfectly willing to ignore his citizens who raised concerns regarding the taste, color, and abrasiveness of the water. He was also a big proponent of making the switch (even though the water treatment plant was ill-prepared to properly treat the water it was sourcing from the Flint River, something he arguably should have been able to determine).

I'm unsure if the council members sat silent or pleaded for the EMs to take action to correct the water quality issues.
Could it be because they are Democrats? That shouldn’t make a difference but to an extreme party hack like Nessel it may indeed.



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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by paul8539 » Sat Jan 23, 2021 6:19 pm

It has been known for years that water in rivers is more acidic than water from lakes. When Flint switched, they should have known that they were getting more acidic water, and put in a treatment plant.

On the other hand, if you build a treatment plant, it would cost more than getting the water from an outside source.

Many of the politicians do not understand scientific issues, so they thought that water from the Flint river would be the same as water from Detroit. 'Water is water'.

Snyder just appointed a hack to run Flint; that is all he is guilty of. Had the emergency manager and city council known of the acidity, they would not have switched.



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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by TC Talks » Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:40 pm

paul8539 wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 6:19 pm
It has been known for years that water in rivers is more acidic than water from lakes. When Flint switched, they should have known that they were getting more acidic water, and put in a treatment plant.

On the other hand, if you build a treatment plant, it would cost more than getting the water from an outside source.

Many of the politicians do not understand scientific issues, so they thought that water from the Flint river would be the same as water from Detroit. 'Water is water'.

Snyder just appointed a hack to run Flint; that is all he is guilty of. Had the emergency manager and city council known of the acidity, they would not have switched.
that's only where Snyder's problems started. He is guilty of much more has the project started to fall apart and he chose to ignore it.


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Re: Report: Rick Snyder to be indicted

Post by km1125 » Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:07 am

Flint's problems are 100 years old.

Blaming the last administration is like blaming the last doctor of a morbidly obese smoking diabetic with cancer for "killing him". Maybe, just maybe if that last doctor did something slightly different the patient would have lasted a couple more months or a couple years, but nowhere with the "quality of life" of a normal human, and most of it would have been due to their own actions, not the doc.

Sure, there are several folks who could have handled things better, but Flint was (and had been) in very poor shape for ~40 years. The residents of the area continued to support their politicians who were doing nothing to improve the area or take care of issues that have been there for 100 years. They had been using the Flint River for their water source up until just about 40 years ago when they switched to the DWSD, but had done nothing of substance for any of their own infrastructure that had been there for 100 years.



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