Gov Snyder's Office To Flynt Mother: "It is just a few IQ points....It Is Not The End Of The World"

[kpete]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/us/flint-weighs-scope-of-harm-to-children-caused-by-lead-in-water.html

[FLPanhandle]

1. Republicans making more republicans.

IQ and learning are just fancy liberal things anyway.

[Brickbat]

2. (The email was not to a Flynt mother.)

[ErisDiscordia]

5. It was what a public health nurse told a mother

[Brickbat]

6. Correct.

The headline made me think that Synder had written an email to a mother saying that. He did not.

[kpete]

7. fixed it?

[wordpix]

25. yes, that nurse needs more training

terrible thing to say

[Highway61]

10. What?

regardless of the delivery….the fact that this was said at all is despicable!

[Rex]

27. (Yes it was.)

[Brickbat]

28. There is no email from Rick Snyder or his office to a mother saying a few IQ points isn't the end of

the world. The email was from Meegan Holland to Rick Snyder and others, referencing this blog post:

http://flintwaterstudy.org/2015/12/michigan-health-department-hid-evidence-of-health-harm-due-to-lead-contaminated-water-allowed-false-public-assurances-by-mdeq-and-stonewalled-outside-researchers/

DHHS’ engagement in the Flint water crisis, started in early 2015 with two phone calls from Lee-Anne Walters to a state lead poisoning nurse in Lansing identified only as “Karen.” When asked about the phone call last night, Walters said she was at first expressing concern over high lead in water measurements in Flint, but on the second call she was in tears because her son’s blood lead had increased to 6.5 ug/dL.

According to Walters, “Karen” stated that “He is barely lead poisoned. If CDC had not changed their lead poisoning standard from 10 down to 5, we would not be having this conversation.” Angry, Walters protested that Karen was minimizing the problem, at which point “Karen” cut her off and said “I am working with kids in their 40’s and 50’s. It is just a few IQ points…it is not the end of the world.” FOIA e-mails do reveal a “Karen” at DHHS who acknowledged receiving phone calls on the dates Walters called (the caller’s name is redacted in the FOIA), but elsewhere this person reveals to colleagues that the last time she actually worked with a child who had blood lead above 45 ug/dL was in 2009.

The email is page 248 of this file:

http://somcsprod2govm001.usgovcloudapp.net/files/snyder%20emails.pdf

[a kennedy]

3. HE NEEDS TO BE DISGOVERNED......or whatever the people of Michigan can do to him.

"It is just a few IQ points.....It is not the end of the world." WTF???

[nilesobek]

15. When they handcuff Snyder

they should clamp them down supertight. And no bail for such an archcriminal.

[ErisDiscordia]

4. It ought to be the end of HIS world!

[yeoman6987]

8. If he wrote it, he'd be done for sure

Since he didn't, I hope they find something to make resignation or fired happen.

[ErisDiscordia]

9. He ignored it, buried it, ridiculed the parents

and started it all in the first place, against the wishes of the voters!

[yeoman6987]

12. Lord I hope he had the nurse fired

I didn't see what action he took or he took it as so over the top that it couldn't be true. The sooner he is out of office the better for the state.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. There's a solution to a guy like Snyder. . .

. . .unfortunately it's not fit to be elaborated here.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Jail would be nice

But, thanks to a trend going back to Nixon, he will be investigated, he will resign, and they will drop it. These guys keep doing what they want because we never make them pay.

[Des Moines De Mon]

13. Was the nurse named Palin?

[phantom power]

14. More conservative sociopaths in the halls of power.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

16. DOJ right? I mean, how can this not be a matter...

for the DOJ to act immediately?

Someone explain why the DOJ isn't involved?

[wordpix]

24. agree, we need DOJ and FBI, too NOW

get in there and seize Snyder's documents and computers before he smashes and burns them

[Octafish]

17. It's NAZI when a child's duty is to live a smaller life...

...so the rich can have more. Take SCAMWAY. Please.

Passing right-to-work in Michigan was more than a policy victory. It was a major score for Republicans who have long sought to weaken the Democratic Party by attacking its sources of funding and organizing muscle. "Michigan big labor literally controls one of the major political parties," Dick DeVos said last January. "I'm not suggesting they have influence; I'm saying they hold total dominance, command, and control." So DeVos and his allies hit labor—and the Democratic Party—where it hurt: their bank accounts. By attacking their opponents' revenue stream, they could help put Michigan into play for the GOP heading into the 2016 presidential race—as it was more than three decades earlier, when the state's Reagan Democrats were key to winning the White House.

SOURCE: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop

[MisterP]

18. the Midwest used to be the home of "sewer socialism": now fascism is piped in!

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

[Octafish]

19. I like the honest government part, too.

Thank you, MisterP. Every time I've read one of your posts I've learned something important to know.

[eShirl]

21. OMFG

no words

[Lil Missy]

22. Oh. my. gawd. they aren't incompetent - they are criminals!

[merkins]

23. Someone get a rope...

[Odin2005]

26. This is a psychopathic level of callousness.

[felix_numinous]

29. He ought to know

or not.