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Flint water protesters: Snyder should resign, face charges
Source: Detroit Free Press
Flint water protesters: Snyder should resign, face charges
Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press 8:34 p.m. EST January 8, 2016
LANSING — About 200 people — many of them calling for Gov. Rick Snyder to resign or face criminal charges over the lead contamination of Flint drinking water — chanted and hoisted signs Friday in a cold rain outside Flint City Hall.
Flint resident Sharon Owensby, a retired GM worker who attended the peaceful demonstration with her husband, James, said she believes Snyder had knowledge of a health risk to Flint residents long before the state acted to address it, and the governor needs to be held accountable.
"We haven't seen the worst yet, with these children coming up," Owensby said, referring to brain damage and other health effects that children can suffer as a result of lead poisoning.
"There's been a nice apology that's been way too late," said Lora Durham, a retired mathematics professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Although Snyder has appointed a task force to determine how the drinking water contamination took place, "if he was in jail and we served him nothing but this water, he'd be looking into it a lot quicker."
Snyder, a Republican who began his second and final four-year term in 2015 and pushed for a controversial strengthening of Michigan's emergency manager law that was used to place Flint under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager at the time the contamination took place, has twice apologized for the state's role in the catastrophe but has urged people to await the results of ongoing investigations.
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Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press 8:34 p.m. EST January 8, 2016
LANSING — About 200 people — many of them calling for Gov. Rick Snyder to resign or face criminal charges over the lead contamination of Flint drinking water — chanted and hoisted signs Friday in a cold rain outside Flint City Hall.
Flint resident Sharon Owensby, a retired GM worker who attended the peaceful demonstration with her husband, James, said she believes Snyder had knowledge of a health risk to Flint residents long before the state acted to address it, and the governor needs to be held accountable.
"We haven't seen the worst yet, with these children coming up," Owensby said, referring to brain damage and other health effects that children can suffer as a result of lead poisoning.
"There's been a nice apology that's been way too late," said Lora Durham, a retired mathematics professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Although Snyder has appointed a task force to determine how the drinking water contamination took place, "if he was in jail and we served him nothing but this water, he'd be looking into it a lot quicker."
Snyder, a Republican who began his second and final four-year term in 2015 and pushed for a controversial strengthening of Michigan's emergency manager law that was used to place Flint under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager at the time the contamination took place, has twice apologized for the state's role in the catastrophe but has urged people to await the results of ongoing investigations.
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Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/08/crowd-protests-water-contamination-flint-city-hall/78517054/
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