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The emergency managers didn't tell them to save $100/day but failing to adjust the pH, they're just incompetent at their job. Democrats ran Flint into bankruptc
by coryrc 7y ago
The emergency managers didn't tell them to save $100/day but failing to adjust the pH, they're just incompetent at their job. Democrats ran Flint into bankruptcy, but they're off the hook when the state has to try and clean up their decades of mess (including rampant nepotism).
The criminal charges have all been dropped give months ago.
- masonic 7y agoDemocrats ran Flint into bankruptcy, but they're off the hook... No, they aren't. A majority of Democrats voted in favor of the switch away from Detroit water, for very good financial reasons. The vote was 7-2.
- morelisp 7y agoI didn't say anything about Democrats or Republicans - both parties have blood on their hands in this case, and city-level planning decisions are often disconnected from party-defining policy issues anyway. Regardless of which party it was, the executive failures - which is what you agree is the problem when you say "they're just incompetent at their job" - cannot be in any meaningful sense a local problem when the executive is being run by a state appointee and not an official elected locally or appointed by one. The emergency manager system is just another case of the nepotism you mention.