Very proud of my home town, Flint, Michigan, tonight. Thank you Rachel Maddow, for the spotlight

[Siwsan]

As I watch the town hall meeting, I've seen people I know, in the audience, and people I so admire, on the panel. The participants love for their city and it's children and their resentment toward Rick Snyder is palpable, even through the TV air waves.

I want to thank Rachel Maddow for bringing this wonderful human representation of my home town into livingrooms across the nation. People are angry, but not defeated.

And Rachel is right - the people of Flint are strong.

[oldandhappy]

1. an excellent program

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[Blus4u]

3. Rachel became passionate for their cause.

She will keep at it and keep it in the public eye.
I don't think I've ever seen her so emotional about an issue before.

Peace

[Tanuki]

4. Rachel's reporting on this has been exemplary investigative journalism and I hope she

receives a major award. She previously reported other abuses related to the Michigan GOP's utterly undemocratic takeovers of cities with high minority populations via the "emergency manager" program. Gov. Snyder has hired a PR firm for damage control and has issued statements trying to deflect blame, but Rachel relentlessly points out that this was the direct cause of the catastrophe.

[Siwsan]

5. Snyder's so tone deaf that he even outsourced his PR disaster!

He overlooked any PR firm located in Michigan to hire a very expensive, international firm. What I want to know is, are we, the citizens of Michigan paying for that, or is it coming out of his pocket? Ok, I just cracked myself up.

[monmouth4]

6. Since no one in Flint is going to pay their water bill (I would hope not), he better watch his money