Flint: Governor Snyder Covers Up

From the Toledo Blade:
EDITORIAL
More sunshine in Michigan
Published: Sunday, 2/7/2016
http://www.toledoblade.com/Editorials/2016/02/07/More-sunshine-in-Michigan.html

... A recent report by the Center for Public Integrity ranks Michigan dead last in government transparency. One big reason: The governor’s office and Legislature are both legally exempt from the state Freedom of Information Act. In Ohio and nearly all other states, the executive and legislative branches are subject to “sunshine” laws.

After his office was engulfed by the Flint water scandal, Governor Snyder made a show last month of releasing his emails on the crisis from 2014 and 2015 — a move reminiscent of tactics employed by a desperate President Richard Nixon to prevent disclosure of the Watergate tapes. Some of the Snyder emails were heavily redacted.

The governor did not release communications involving his executive-office point person on Flint. Nor were any emails disclosed from 2013, when crucial early decisions may have been made.

Michigan passed its open records law in 1976, in the wake of the Watergate scandal. With the tainted-water scandal a national embarrassment, the state needs a new law that makes the executive and legislative branches as transparent as possible, with exemptions only for matters of personal privacy.

Mr. Snyder took office vowing to support transparency in government — a pledge he has done nothing to fulfill. Extending the Freedom of Information Act to those who do the people’s business in Lansing would be an ideal way to start.

Mr. Snyder was a successful businessman. This is yet another of the millions of examples that success in one field does not necessarily nor often easily transfer into another field. People who support candidates, saying that they think business-like please take note.

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The "Friendly Fire" Damage Of Michigan's Republican Administrations

 Governor Snyder of Michigan

You may have heard about the lead poisoning that stems from decisions made about the City of Flint's water supply:

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2015/12/21/water-flint-michigan-safe.html

http://www.metrotimes.com/Blogs/archives/2016/01/09/curt-guyette-discusses-the-flint-water-crisis-with-rachel-maddow

http://www.eclectablog.com/2016/01/breaking-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-finally-declares-a-state-of-emergency-in-flint-over-water-poisoning-by-state.html

The controversy continues about Republican governor Snyder's response to the lead poisoning of children.
I mean, you can't sell a house constructed before a certain time period without a certified test that there is no lead paint in it. Yet the Republican government of Michigan saw fit to deliver lead wholesale to Flint. Of course, Flint, rather like New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, is largely a poor city with a large black population.

The contempt that threads through Ideology becomes habitual and comes to the fore when circumstances permit. The pagan and heathenish Ideology of the present age will kill everyone, if given it way. Of course, the rich will be the last to die.


Forty years ago, fire-retardant PBBs were dumped into Michigan's cattle feed, and the crisis was handled by the then Republican administration in pretty much the same way: they looked the other way while meat and milk and cheese were tainted with PBBs and worked their way into the food supply and were consumed, where they were stored in fat cells and became difficult to remove from the body.
PBB is one of just six substances — along with lead and mercury — banned by the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive.

Except, of course, in mothers' milk, in which the PBB laden fats were transferred to the children.

Yesterday's Memories and other Useless Thoughts
http://ymaout.blogspot.com/2013/03/pbb-disaster-of-1970s-poisons-all-of.html

... a vet in Big Rapids was threatened by the government if he went public about the ordeal. The government realized that people have been infected with the bad meat and there wasn't much they could do about it at that point. Products were quietly pulled off store shelves leaving many wondering what was going on. Think about it. You had milk, butter, cheese, eggs, chicken, pork and beef products pulled off the shelves. Farmers who were using manure to fertilizer their crops now had traces of PBB on the vegetables. It was literally everywhere. Food from outside states were quickly shipped in while Michigan grown food was destroyed. The PBB laced manure eventually soaked into the water supply poisoning some of the farmers wells...

The children, again. Open season on children yet again. The rest of us are damage due to friendly fire, I guess. I mean, we did vote for them.

PBB Affected Cows Being Killed in Michigan

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Michigan Becomes a Republican Trash Receptacle

After the news came in from Newton, Connecticut, we learn that the gang of imbeciles referred to laughably as the Michigan Senate and House have passed a law allowing concealed weapons to be carried in schools, churches, and restricted areas.

In their minds, they conceive of this as the answer to shootings is to arm elementary school children, teachers, choirmasters, and choristers. Each and every individual not only has the right, but apparently has the ability to be a dead-eye shooter. Even a second-grader can do a quick-draw and drop a gun-toting mad man from 100 paces, then spit tobacco into the spitoon.

"If you have pistol free zones they are actually mass murderer empowerment zones," said Steve Dulan, attorney for the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners, who represents sportsman clubs throughout Michigan backing the bill. "If you actually look at the history, even over the past 10 years in the U.S., you find that maybe all but one mass shooting has occurred in a so-called gun free zone."

If there are no pistol-free zones, it is due to the machinations of people like Steve Dulan. He must be held responsible when, in the near future, it is our turn in Michigan.

Michigan is now an official Republican Trash Dump for the wretched ideas of the monstrous idiots of extremism.

Impeach Snyder!
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