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In 2011, Snyder ordered a state takeover of Flints government amid the citys mounting financial woes. During its time in receivership, a series of Snyder appointees served as emergency managers, overseeing Flints government functions and finding ways to cut spending.
Two years later, one of those managers, Darnell Earley, implemented a plan to switch Flints water supply from the Detroit system to a new consortium and to use water from the Flint River in the interim. He claimed this would save $6 to $8 million, one city council member recalled to the Associated Press. The Flint River water proved toxic and Snyder has said it will require a long-term, decades-long financial commitment to attempt to mitigate the damage to Flint children who drank the water.
But an email obtained by the Bill Johnson group and first reported by Motor City Muckraker suggests that the move might not have been necessary to reduce Flints water costs. Then-Detroit Water and Sewerage Department Director Sue McCormick proposed to continue providing water to Flint at a savings of $800 million over 30 years, or 20 percent less than the switch. In other words, Flint could have kept the Detroit water and still saved more money than it did. A spokeswoman for McCormick confirmed the email and reporting to ThinkProgress on Monday.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/01/25/3742625/documents-michigan-contradict-flint-narrative-snyder/
These Republicans are criminals and must be prosecuted and jailed!
randys1
(16,286 posts)None will be indicted, let alone imprisoned, none.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)and I don't think you are gifted with the sixth sense.