Mark my word - Snyder will resign

[malaise]

This Flint disaster is getting way too big for him.
Come on Michigan if it could be we're all French, it can be we're all from Flint.

[Proserpina]

1. I want him in jail

Resignation is not enough.

[malaise]

6. We may get both

They should all go to prison - jail is short term.

[daleanime]

34. +1

[yeoman6987]

51. Mayor too

I can't believe someone running the city didn't know what was going on. Both must resign and maybe charged.

[Proserpina]

56. The mayor had been relieved of duties, by the emergency Manager

that Snyder appointed. Said manager is now busy demolishing Detroit's public schools...and yes, he belongs in a long-term penitentiary, too.

The mayor had nothing to do with it. The whole city's population were enslaved to the governor's whims. They had no democracy; they were under Occupation.

[RKP5637]

79. Exactly!!! Heads need to roll on this one. They willfully poisoned people!!! n/t

[Hortensis]

72. +100.

Reform of governance can't happen without accountability and punishment for betrayal of duties.

[postulater]

2. Word - marked!

And I'm holding you to it.

I hope he asks Scotty Walker to go with him.

[n2doc]

3. I hope this wakes the good people of Michigan up

And they kick the R's out in the next election, regardless of how much money DeVos spends on ads .

[Proserpina]

10. Not likely, not yet

There's no buzz, no awareness....

Trouble with Michigan is it's a bunch of little fortresses, not a unified state. Very provincial in many ways. People who can afford cottages are a little less blinkered, but not much.

Grand Rapids couldn't care less about Flint, Detroit, or Alpena. And vice versa.

There aren't any state-wide programs to build unity and equal interest. Everything is local, and falling apart.

[saltpoint]

4. Encouraging prediction, malaise. What is

the mechanism there for replacement? Would the Lt. Gov. automatically take over?

[malaise]

17. I'll have to look it up

Don't know enough on the replacement side.

[saltpoint]

19. Ok. But I am grateful for the

outcome you've set up for us. The people of your state deserve a public servant in that officed and not the guy who's in there now.

[snpsmom]

29. Yes, we'll go from bad to worse n/t

[Siwsan]

5. We will still have his minions to deal with, and they are no better

We need to weed out his whole administration because I suspect they are all complicit.

[joeybee12]

7. Hmm...you may be confusing Snyder with someone who has a conscience

But I hope you're right.

[malaise]

12. You ssee those emails that show they changed data to continue poisoning African-

Americans and poor whites - there are going to be arrests

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2003843!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/usa-justice-lynch.jpg

[safeinOhio]

23. Ricky boy is worth $200 million.

Lets start with half of that to show he has a conscience. $100 million aught to be enough for his kids that don't have a led problem.

[hollysmom]

52. I think he should be personally sued along with his city managers and all their wealth stripped and

then they should be moved to live in Flint.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Watch for a P.R. campaign similiar to what went down

in Wisconsin with The Snotie. All those ALEC folks are not going let this happen. Koch Brothers have way to much to lose on this one.

[malaise]

13. They are going to lose this one

It's going to be huge. Don't miss a beat of this one. This specific shit is over.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Hopefully so

but it will be a long drawn out show.

[malaise]

30. Rachel got a 'big up' from the mayor and Chris Hayes

Michael Moore will be on Chris Hayes tomorrow night.

[Wellstone ruled]

36. Good on for Michael Moore.

Bring it big time pal.

[Katashi_itto]

9. Senator material or something more important, a Lobbyist.

[Proserpina]

11. NO way!

And not President, either.

[Katashi_itto]

15. Be nice to think something will happen, but I've gotten to cynical.

[Proserpina]

20. As Lily Tomlin said

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."

She's a Detroiter, so she should know.

[Katashi_itto]

22. :)

[HereSince1628]

16. OK, got it marked... so we'll see. I'm less confidnent than you...

Outside of MI we find this abhorrent. Inside MI I'm not so sure what Snyder's base feels.

[babylonsister]

18. Probably not too happy if he's managed to poison them also. nt

[malaise]

21. 41% of Flint residents are poor white people

50+% African-American

[safeinOhio]

24. How many bottles of water purchased by

Rickies friend Dick DeVos?

[malaise]

31. You tell me

Always follow the money - I want to know who's making money off the filters.

[demmiblue]

25. No, he won't. n/t

[tularetom]

26. He should and so should Rahm Emanuel and for basically the same reason

They both knew something wrong was going on and instead of taking action to stop it, they organized a conspiracy to cover it up.

[Facility Inspector]

27. It's because none of these assholes

have a soul.

They are morally and ethically bankrupt. The apotheosis of alienation vis-a-vis cold, calculating, imperial corporatism.

[malaise]

28. Agreed n/t

[TIME TO PANIC]

38. Absolutely. n/t

[paleotn]

32. Exactly....

if you live in a community not wealthy enough to buy politicians, it can also happen to you. We are all from Flint.

[hopemountain]

33. he should also be arrested, charged,

convicted and sentenced to drink and bathe in lead contaminated water for the rest of his life.

[ErikJ]

35. His excuse "There IS a good market for it"

what does that meaN?

[RoccoR5955]

37. Jail is too good for him.

He needs his future generations pay for his crimes.

[silvershadow]

39. One can still hope that this also unravels the illegal takeover scheme as well. nt

[Jim Beard]

40. Is this the city that the state took away local control of a few years ago?

[jhart3333]

41. I believe that's Detroit

[Leith]

44. And Detroit Schools,

and Benton Harbor, and Pontiac, and a few others.

Wouldn't it be great if Obama said he would appoint an emergency manager for the state to clean up Snyder's mess?

[Proserpina]

45. Both Flint and Detroit and many more

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/michigan-emergency-manager-law-cities_n_2876777.html
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced Tuesday (March 15, 2013) that the state would appoint an emergency financial manager to Detroit. Beginning Monday, Washington D.C. bankruptcy lawyer Kevyn Orr will begin examining the city's finances in the hopes that in the next 18 months he can make a dent in its massive debts.

Detroit is only the latest city (and Michigan's largest) to come under control of an emergency financial manager.

Other cities have fallen under control of EFMs since PA 72 was introduced in 1990, with the aim of allowing the state to intervene in municipalities and school districts facing financial emergencies. Snyder strengthened the law when PA 4 came into effect in 2011, giving an emergency manager extended powers. State voters repealed PA 4 last year, but another law goes into effect in late March that gives an emergency manager the power to dismiss elected officials, abrogate labor contracts, sell off public assets and impose new taxes on residents.

Detroit will be one of six cities under an EFM, leaving nine percent of the state's population without democratically elected leadership, according to census figures. However, most of the cities are majority African-American. Orr's appointment in Detroit will put 49 percent of the state's African-American population under EFMs. African-Americans make up about 14 percent of Michigan's population.

Financial emergency in Michigan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_emergency_in_Michigan

The financial emergency status, along with the Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) position, was first created in Public Act 101 of 1988 for the specific emergency in Hamtramck. Public Act 101 was amended by Public Act 72 of 1990, allowing an Emergency Financial Manager to be appointed for any local governmental unit. PA 72 in turn was replaced by Public Act 4 of 2011, which renamed the position to Emergency Manager (EM) and gave the Manager additional authority.

When the Referendum petitions were approved by the Michigan State Board of Canvassers on August 8, 2012 under orders from the Michigan Supreme Court, PA 4 was suspended and the previous version, PA 72, was reinstated.[2] All current EM except for Michael Brown in Flint were reappointed as EFM by the Local Emergency Financial Assistance Loan Board. Brown was previously a Flint City employee in the past five years and was not eligible under PA 72 to be an EFM.[3] The Sugar Law Center filed to challenge PA 4 and PA 72. PA 4 was repealed by Michigan voters in the 2012 general election,[4] and the Michigan Legislature subsequently passed Public Act 436 of 2012 to replace the revived Public Act 72.[5]

On May 1, 2013, the City of Ecorse was moved from under an emergency manager to a transition advisory board, which includes the previous emergency manager.[6] On July 2, a school district dissolution provision was passed into law allowing financially struggling school districts to be dissolved.[7] On July 18 with the Governor's authorization, Detroit's manager filed Chapter 9 bankruptcy.[8] In August, a transition advisory board was appointed for the City of Pontiac which included the then emergency manager.[9]

For the City of Detroit, the state legislature passed a separate law forming a financial review commission to exercise financial check on city government as it exited bankruptcy and emergency management.

Dissolved school districts
Buena Vista School District (Michigan), July 30, 2013[24]
Inkster Public Schools, July 25, 2013[26]

List of Emergency Managers

Local Government Term Manager Governor

Allen Park October 2012–September 2014 Joyce A. Parker Rick Snyder

Benton Harbor Apr 2010 - Jan 2013 Joseph Harris Jennifer Granholm
Benton Harbor January 2013–March 2014 Tony Saunders Rick Snyder
City of Detroit Mar 2013– December 10, 2014 Kevyn Orr Rick Snyder
City of Ecorse Oct 2009 - Apr 2013 Joyce A. Parker Jennifer Granholm
City of Flint Jul 2002 - Jun 2004 Ed Kurtz John Engler
Dec 2011 - Aug 2012 Michael Brown Rick Snyder
Aug 2012 - July 2013 Ed Kurtz Rick Snyder
July 2013 - October 2013 Michael Brown Rick Snyder
October 2013 - January 2015 Darnell Earley Rick Snyder[35]
January 2015–April 30, 2015[36] Jerry Ambrose Rick Snyder[37]
Hamtramck City 1988-?
December 2000[38]- Feb 2007 Louis Schimmel John Engler[39]
July 2013 – Dec 2014 Cathy Square Rick Snyder [40]
Highland Park Dec 2000 - Mar 2005 Ramona Henderson Pearson John Engler
Mar 2005 - Apr 2009 Arthur Blackwell Jennifer Granholm
Apr 2009 - Jul 2009 Robert Mason Jennifer Granholm
Pontiac Aug 2010 - Oct 2011 Michael Stampfler Jennifer Granholm
Oct 2011 - August 2013 Louis Schimmel Rick Snyder
Three Oaks Village December 2008 - December 2009 Pam Amato Jennifer Granholm
Detroit Public Schools Mar 2009 - May 2011 Robert Bobb Jennifer Granholm
May 2011 – January 2015 Roy Roberts Rick Snyder
January 2015 - present Darnell Earley Rick Snyder
Muskegon Heights School District April 2012 - present Donald Weatherspoon Rick Snyder
Highland Park Schools Jan 2012–present Jack Martin Rick Snyder
October 2012 - present Donald Weatherspoon Rick Snyder

[jhart3333]

47. Okay, it becomes clear to me now. They showed up with the austerity program from Hell

and poisoned those kids?

[Proserpina]

48. and put Detroit's Water Works in jeopardy too

Everybody wins! Big chance to privatize all that water....when the system goes bankrupt for loss of income.

[MoreGOPoop]

42. K & R

Got on his mailing list after petitioning him. In his emails you get the
feeling he's pushing his creds in the 'comeback state', as if the koch
roaches might try to run him as the repug candidate, since Walker is
compromised. Speaking of kochs, does anyone know where their
mountain of mercury-containing pet-coke on the Detroit River got
moved to?

[Proserpina]

46. Chicago area

[MoreGOPoop]

49. Thank you!

And, heads up, people of Chicago.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

54. the kochs were required to build building to enclose that crap.

And to prevent any leaching.
Time will tell, as will the good citizens of Indiana. The prevailing winds blow directly into their state.

[malaise]

62. The fuckers lose over and over

Snyder will resign - the Feds are not going to allow him to turn a self made disaster into a major federal disaster.

He's lied his ass off tonight.

Michael Moore on Chris Hayes

[ChairmanAgnostic]

63. You betcha.

OUCH! Too much Sarah Palin on the gnus today.

[MoreGOPoop]

84. Thank you!

Something tells me it's downwind from wherever the kochs are.

[Live and Learn]

43. This cannot be tolerated. It must be investigated and those responsible must be prosecuted. nt

[KamaAina]

50. Avvie changed

Back to Bernie when this is fixed.

[Kalidurga]

55. Good idea

I changed my avatar in "honor" of Snyder and put my home state in my sig line.

[Skittles]

53. I will hold you to that, malaise

JAYSUS, he's a bigger piece of shit than my governor

[KamaAina]

57. As my Scots grandfather from Detroit would say, "I hae me doots."

I'm sure Slick Rick will find someone, or a few someones, to fall on their swords instead.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

58. Why, is he caught on tape eating a child?

Because that's about the only way any Republican will ever resign for anything.

Being a conservative: You never have to say sorry for anything.

[ViseGrip]

59. He will not resign.....

[Liberal_in_LA]

60. He should

[Shankapotomus]

61. MSNBC

was showing Snyder as a Democrat. $&@#ers had a big D next to his name.

[malaise]

66. Are you serious?

Didn't see that.
Michael Moore is brilliant - this is a excellent interview.

[Stellar]

64. His oss should be in f**king Jail!

If not...

[malaise]

65. I hope Obama flies into Flint tomorrow

That would be great

[Stellar]

67. So can he just pick up and fly there...I don't know how that works.

I know the major is going to the Whitehouse tomorrow.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-expected-to-meet-with-flint-michigan-mayor-at-the-white-house/

[malaise]

68. He'll be in Detroit some time tomorrow for a car show

He can helicopter over as suggested by Michael Moore.

[malaise]

70. Obama is meeting with the Mayor of Flint in DC

this morning.

[tblue37]

71. Mayor? nt

[Stellar]

74. arrgh! yep...what was I thinking?

Of course.

[tblue37]

75. It probably wasn't you. Autocorrect is so darned hyperactive that it will turn the

most thoughtful post into gibberish if you don't watch out. It has certainly happened to me often enough!

[Stellar]

78. I'll look out for that...LOL

But, I'm sure that might have been a brain fart on my part.

[edhopper]

69. He won't

But if this were Japan he would kill himself.

[MrScorpio]

73. Don't underestimate the resilience of the RWNJs in this state

These fuckers are almost impervious to reality.

[Gothmog]

76. Resignation will be nice but I would like to see him prosecuted

[hatrack]

77. Never happen - sociopaths don't feel shame or responsibility

.

[lonestarnot]

81. Sadly not even for kids they lead poison.

[Stellar]

80. Oh, please don't let him resign...

He should be kicked out of office first, brought up on charges and then throw his monkey ass in jail for a 100 years and a day.

[B Calm]

82. The state comes in and takes over local government and looks for ways to save money.

One of the first things the Governor does is change where Flint gets it drinking water. Yesterday he takes blame and in the next breath points his finger at national and local government. He needs to be impeached and removed from office. He should face a prison sentence for this, but like most Republicans will get away without taking any personal responsibility!

[bermudat]

83. Republicans never resign, never apologize

That takes the ability to feel shame, which requires a soul.