Flint, Michigan accused of ignoring lead-contaminated water to save $$
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Thanks for waking up. Flint and other cities has been Katrina before New Orleans. No one cares they only care now cause its mainstream and black twitter popular. Soon no one will cry over environmental causes. Environmental causes ain't sexy enough to get real coverage.
Mayor is fucking evil. Cut MI off the map.
stfu with your johnny outrage lately ass. You mean the governor is. The Mayor who is a sista met with Valerie Jarrett today.
Michigan has plenty of fresh water. Cut us off and a lot of states would be hurting for clean fresh water.
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Fam that shit is man... I been to Flint about 14 or 15 years ago.. I was only there for 2 days but man shit felt like 2 weeks being there.. How it looked then is how it looks now. Depressing is not even the word to describe it.
Nigga stufu with your old Vietnam stories. You wasn't shit before You got there and you damn sure ain't shit now.
Old drunk ass nigga.
Some folks just reported they was still drinking the water earlier this week.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/l...people-live-with-flint-water-crisis/78860228/
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/l...people-live-with-flint-water-crisis/78860228/
I've been saying this. They have to still pay for the filthy water. To fix the pipes will cost a billion dollars plus.
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Pamela Battle, 36, of Flint, says her entire household (7 kids) had been drinking the water until earlier this week (Jan 20th, 2016)
“We were drinking it regularly,” said Battle, 36. “The whole family. Everyone here.”
The water in her previous home was discolored and tasted terrible, she said, but when she moved to her house on Chambers in December 2014, the water came out of the faucet clear and tasted fine. She said she didn’t realize there was an issue.
At the urging of her mother, Battle went to Freeman Elementary School on Tuesday with some of her kids to get their blood checked for lead. The school hosted an event where she learned about lead poisoning and its effects on children.
“I’m really concerned now,” she said.
Battle said she has no choice but to stay in Flint with her children and live with the water crisis. Others have had enough and plan to leave.
Kerry Wheeler, 45, of Flint said her 10-year-old dog became lethargic, wouldn’t eat and started vomiting. She took him to the vet and was told to give the dog bottled water. The dog, named Beast, perked up after the change. (Photo: REGINA H. BOONE/Detroit Free Press)
Water in her home has varied from clear or cloudy to brown or yellow. At times, it has been so discolored, she refused to let her daughter bathe in it, opting for wipes instead, she said.
“Nobody should have to be living like this,” Wheeler said.
Paul Lewis said he knew something was definitely wrong with the water when his plants started to die. (Photo: Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press
Paul Lewis, 65, switched his family to bottled water more than a year ago, but continued to use tap water for his plants.
The plants went from being green to looking frumpy. Then they turned brown and died, never responding to the plant food he gave them to try and spruce them up.
“After the water fiasco, I just realized it was the water that I was putting on them,” he concluded.
Paul Lewis said he knew something was definitely wrong
The retired truck driver and his family, including a wife, son, daughter and three grandchildren, use bottled water for everything except bathing. The water costs about $40 every two weeks.
As he loaded up 10 cases of water during a trip to Walmart, a man at the store said, "You can sure tell when people live in Flint."
The least they should do right now is buy all the citizens good and very dependable filters to put on the faucets and showers. Our water may have some kind of poison in it without us knowing it. Hope this is not a test of respond for some things they got planned. I was shocked when I saw a heart attack gun. It is a pistol that shoots a small ice projectile. Like a needle and it is ice so it melts in you. And it is made of various shell fish toxins. They will pronounce the cause of death as heart attack. They have used gay drugs on the public without them knowing it in the past. Strange they have even drugs to make people gay. The public is unaware of it.
What blacks do not know is that the rich and powerful whites are executing plans, as they have always did to finish executing blacks off of the face of the earth.
ALL READY TESTING HOW MUCH WILL THEY TAKE. IF THAT MAYOR AND GOV. WERE BLACK THEY WOULD BE UNDER JAIL. Remember
Kwame Kilpatrick
What blacks do not know is that the rich and powerful whites are executing plans, as they have always did to finish executing blacks off of the face of the earth.
ALL READY TESTING HOW MUCH WILL THEY TAKE. IF THAT MAYOR AND GOV. WERE BLACK THEY WOULD BE UNDER JAIL. Remember
Kwame Kilpatrick
Fuck Kwame, and fuck You too. He's done wrong and he needed to be in jail.
Kwame stole from Black citizens. Original O I know you can't comprehend that. All black folk are innocent in your toxic mind.
Instead of giving contracts to the long standing Black construction companies he gave the contracts to his friends. Fuck Kwame, fuck fake nation, and fuck synder with his no responsibly taking ass.
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They reverted back to the original water source but the pipes have already been damaged.
How do you even begin to fix this problem?
How do you even begin to fix this problem?
you cant..
you would have to replace EVERY pipe at the same time, otherwise if you replace the city pipes, the back wash from the home pipes would simply reinfect it.
or until everyone died off
You'd have to tear out all the old ass water pipe structure. That costs billions of dollars .
Don't get confused The Governor ran a platform on being a nerd. He knew good and well what he was doing. He got in and gave tax breaks to big corps and some family. This water issue would not have been brought to Ann Arbor , Birmingham, Grosse Pointe etc these are cities with money and residents me included when I'm home wouldn't have it.
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He called himself saving money by taking short cuts not putting the money where it needed to be Why because the residents in Flint are working-class and poor.
He wouldn't pull this in Ann Arbor where he was a resident why? The university of Michigan, tech companies and other businesses are there.
He wouldn't pull this in Ann Arbor where he was a resident why? The university of Michigan, tech companies and other businesses are there.
@D Kline and @JamesATL ..props for you guys for the info and updates....this is a damn shame. The fact that one man/city council would dare threaten thousands/hundreds of thousands of peoples lives...all to save a few pennies on the dollar, its fucking criminal. I know the Pres is busy, but I just hope that behind the scenes he is ripping somebody a new one over this
D24OHA the Pres is still in town. Its a direct correlation between FLINT WATER and Detroit Public school systems. They both are majority black although You do have poor whites and other young people of color in these schools,
Someone had mentioned this mismanagement has been going on for years. I remember doing a science project on the toxins in three local waterways in the 4th grade. I remember even way back then You had horrible chemicals in the water.
Breaking News
In a local paper they are folks are now publishing teachers name, address etc in the paper bringing a lawsuit saying their own walk out for the sake of these kids and better working conditions doesn't make sense on tax payer dollars
Someone had mentioned this mismanagement has been going on for years. I remember doing a science project on the toxins in three local waterways in the 4th grade. I remember even way back then You had horrible chemicals in the water.
Breaking News
In a local paper they are folks are now publishing teachers name, address etc in the paper bringing a lawsuit saying their own walk out for the sake of these kids and better working conditions doesn't make sense on tax payer dollars
Damn Hillary won some points in my book with her efforts on this issue
TL;DR, Bernie said the Gov should resign, gave it lip service then moved on. Hillary said more needs to be done to help the people first and foremost, sent 2 of her aides to the Governor's office to work on a solution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-flint_us_569e66c3e4b04c8137617f05?1tgfogvi=
Flint Water Response Perfectly Captures The Difference Between Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton
Flint's mayor endorsed Clinton on Tuesday.
01/19/2016 03:58 pm ET | Updated 18 hours ago
David Becker/Associated Press
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have taken different approaches to addressing the Flint water crisis.
On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) to resign over the lead poisoning crisis in Flint.
Three days later, Snyder remains in office, and Sanders has moved on after generating a fair amount of media attention.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton went on national television and chastised Snyder for refusing to ask for federal assistance in order to help the affected residents.
Two hours after that interview aired on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, the governor did just that.
Clinton had also already dispatched two of her top aides -- including one with years of experience working for a Michigan senator -- to the state to assist Flint Mayor Karen Weaver (D) with whatever she needed.
The different approaches are emblematic of the ways the two Democratic presidential candidates respond to problems -- and would perhaps continue to do so if they win the presidency. Sanders goes big, not always worrying about whether what he's proposing is politically realistic. Clinton, meanwhile, focuses on the pragmatic instead of the aspirational, using her experience as a guide to what can get done.
Their approaches on health care have exposed this rift as well. Sanders has continued to push for a single-payer health care system -- a dream for many Democrats -- while Clinton has slammed his proposal as too vague and politically unrealistic.
Since October, officials have told Flint residents not to drink the brown stuff coming out of their taps, which they had previously been assured was safe even though it caused rashes. The state admitted it made a mistake when a local pediatrician reported unusually high lead levels in Flint children's blood.
The former secretary of state's approach has won over Weaver, who came out and endorsed Clinton during a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning.
"As far as what Hillary Clinton has done, she has actually been the only -- the only -- candidate, whether we're talking Democratic or Republican, to reach out and talk with us about, 'What can I do? What kind of help do you need?'" Weaver said.
Amanda Renteria is the Clinton campaign's national political director and one of the staffers who went to Flint last week to talk with the mayor. She has experience in the state, having previously served as chief of staff to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D- Mich.).
"When this came about and [Clinton] read about it, her immediate response has been, 'Let's see what's going on, and what can we do to help?'" Renteria told reporters during Tuesday's conference call.
Snyder, for his part, has denied that Clinton and her appearance on Maddow had anything to do with his decision to ask for federal funds.
"Gov. Snyder announced the state was coordinating with FEMA days before and [was] dealing with the crisis on Thursday, not watching political talk shows," Snyder spokesman Dave Murray told the Washington Examiner.
Last week, the Clinton campaign also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct an "expedited review" of Flint's water infrastructure and said the Obama administration should immediately set up a "health monitoring and surveillance system" to test residents for lead poisoning. It's less exciting and headline-grabbing than getting Snyder to resign, but also more likely to happen.
Clinton was also the first candidate to bring up the Flint water crisis during a presidential debate. On Sunday night in South Carolina, Clinton said the crisis had its roots in race and class issues.
"We've had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority African-American, has been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water," she said, adding, "I'll tell you what -- if the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it there would've been action."
In his statement Saturday, Sanders did go further in trying to hold Snyder accountable.
"There are no excuses," he said. "The governor long ago knew about the lead in Flint’s water. He did nothing. As a result, hundreds of children were poisoned. Thousands may have been exposed to potential brain damage from lead. Gov. Snyder should resign."
Erin Brockovich, the legendary environmental activist and lawyer, endorsed Sanders' approach Saturday, saying she hadn't yet called for the governor's resignation because she believed "we need to focus all of our energy on helping the people of Flint." But she changed her position after seeing the seriousness of the situation.
"I will be speaking with the campaign over the next few days to help him understand just exactly how this is truly a National crisis beyond Flint," Brockovich said in a statement.
Weaver didn't seem particularly impressed with Sanders' comments Tuesday, telling reporters, "A lot of people said the governor should step down."
The Sanders campaign did not return a request for comment on what else the senator has done on Flint.
This piece has been updated with comments from Erin Brockovich and Snyder's office.
TL;DR, Bernie said the Gov should resign, gave it lip service then moved on. Hillary said more needs to be done to help the people first and foremost, sent 2 of her aides to the Governor's office to work on a solution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-flint_us_569e66c3e4b04c8137617f05?1tgfogvi=
Flint Water Response Perfectly Captures The Difference Between Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton
Flint's mayor endorsed Clinton on Tuesday.
01/19/2016 03:58 pm ET | Updated 18 hours ago
- Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post
David Becker/Associated Press
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have taken different approaches to addressing the Flint water crisis.
On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) to resign over the lead poisoning crisis in Flint.
Three days later, Snyder remains in office, and Sanders has moved on after generating a fair amount of media attention.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton went on national television and chastised Snyder for refusing to ask for federal assistance in order to help the affected residents.
Two hours after that interview aired on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, the governor did just that.
Clinton had also already dispatched two of her top aides -- including one with years of experience working for a Michigan senator -- to the state to assist Flint Mayor Karen Weaver (D) with whatever she needed.
The different approaches are emblematic of the ways the two Democratic presidential candidates respond to problems -- and would perhaps continue to do so if they win the presidency. Sanders goes big, not always worrying about whether what he's proposing is politically realistic. Clinton, meanwhile, focuses on the pragmatic instead of the aspirational, using her experience as a guide to what can get done.
Their approaches on health care have exposed this rift as well. Sanders has continued to push for a single-payer health care system -- a dream for many Democrats -- while Clinton has slammed his proposal as too vague and politically unrealistic.
Since October, officials have told Flint residents not to drink the brown stuff coming out of their taps, which they had previously been assured was safe even though it caused rashes. The state admitted it made a mistake when a local pediatrician reported unusually high lead levels in Flint children's blood.
The former secretary of state's approach has won over Weaver, who came out and endorsed Clinton during a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning.
"As far as what Hillary Clinton has done, she has actually been the only -- the only -- candidate, whether we're talking Democratic or Republican, to reach out and talk with us about, 'What can I do? What kind of help do you need?'" Weaver said.
Amanda Renteria is the Clinton campaign's national political director and one of the staffers who went to Flint last week to talk with the mayor. She has experience in the state, having previously served as chief of staff to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D- Mich.).
"When this came about and [Clinton] read about it, her immediate response has been, 'Let's see what's going on, and what can we do to help?'" Renteria told reporters during Tuesday's conference call.
Snyder, for his part, has denied that Clinton and her appearance on Maddow had anything to do with his decision to ask for federal funds.
"Gov. Snyder announced the state was coordinating with FEMA days before and [was] dealing with the crisis on Thursday, not watching political talk shows," Snyder spokesman Dave Murray told the Washington Examiner.
Last week, the Clinton campaign also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct an "expedited review" of Flint's water infrastructure and said the Obama administration should immediately set up a "health monitoring and surveillance system" to test residents for lead poisoning. It's less exciting and headline-grabbing than getting Snyder to resign, but also more likely to happen.
Clinton was also the first candidate to bring up the Flint water crisis during a presidential debate. On Sunday night in South Carolina, Clinton said the crisis had its roots in race and class issues.
"We've had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority African-American, has been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water," she said, adding, "I'll tell you what -- if the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it there would've been action."
In his statement Saturday, Sanders did go further in trying to hold Snyder accountable.
"There are no excuses," he said. "The governor long ago knew about the lead in Flint’s water. He did nothing. As a result, hundreds of children were poisoned. Thousands may have been exposed to potential brain damage from lead. Gov. Snyder should resign."
Erin Brockovich, the legendary environmental activist and lawyer, endorsed Sanders' approach Saturday, saying she hadn't yet called for the governor's resignation because she believed "we need to focus all of our energy on helping the people of Flint." But she changed her position after seeing the seriousness of the situation.
"I will be speaking with the campaign over the next few days to help him understand just exactly how this is truly a National crisis beyond Flint," Brockovich said in a statement.
Weaver didn't seem particularly impressed with Sanders' comments Tuesday, telling reporters, "A lot of people said the governor should step down."
The Sanders campaign did not return a request for comment on what else the senator has done on Flint.
This piece has been updated with comments from Erin Brockovich and Snyder's office.
D Kline I do not know what all Kwame did. But I am saying that there is a lot of things happening that is strange. I hope you know about some of the things they are doing. I do not want white people trying to show me what we are doing when they are doing real devil shit.
HAVE YOU CHECKED THIS VIDEO OUT?? THEY ARE DOING THINGS LIKE WHAT IS IN THIS VIDEO AND WORSE HERE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.
HAVE YOU CHECKED THIS VIDEO OUT?? THEY ARE DOING THINGS LIKE WHAT IS IN THIS VIDEO AND WORSE HERE AND ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Hey brother I am a man you do not have to talk like that. But I am not sure that is true what you are saying. I use a shower filter that filters out bleach and other contaminants. What powers do lead have that other contaminants that keeps it from being able to be filtered out? And what do you have against blackness?
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