'Snyder Not Welcome': Has Flint's Smoking Gun Finally Emerged?

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/02/snyder-not-welcome-has-flints-smoking-gun-finally-emerged

As evidence against the state government continues to accrue, Michigan House Democratic leader Tim Greimel on Wednesday became the first member of the state legislature to join a growing call for Gov. Rick Snyder's resignation over Flint's water contamination crisis.

"It's now clear that for over a year the governor's top aides and advisers wrote thousands of emails relating to the Flint situation, and that they held many meetings and had many conversations about Flint," said Greimel. "It is inconceivable that the governor wasn't aware of what was going on. In fact, the governor's own chief of staff came out last week and indicated that he had been keeping the governor informed all along the way."

What's more, the Michigan Democratic Party revealed on Wednesday, records obtained under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act suggest that the Snyder administration "forced Flint residents to continue drinking poisoned water due to a dirty deal it signed with the city's Emergency Manager in April 2015."

According to the Detroit Free Press, the state of Michigan blocked Flint from returning to Lake Huron water from the Detroit water system when it agreed to grant the city an emergency loan of $7 million in April 2015.

The deal was signed off on "even after alarm bells were going off all over the Governor's office that lead and Legionnaires’ disease were poisoning families," said Brandon Dillon, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.

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1. Snyder will resign

He should be sent to prison

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2. He should definitely do plenty of time.

Not so much because he is important, but because the next dipshit to get elected will think about it.

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3. +1,000

For profit policies that kill and injure will not be tolerated