Post by Logan on Mar 19, 2016 23:51:06 GMT -6
Watching Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testify before Congress about the Flint water crisis was, for all the world, like watching everyone trying to explain what happened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
It was all somebody else’s fault: The levees weren’t strong enough. The emergency notice didn’t come soon enough. The amount of emergency transportation was woefully lacking. Plenty of people shared blame after the fact. But who’s ultimately responsible for a city before and during a crisis: The mayor.
And if the mayor has been supplanted by an emergency manager, then the governor.
Snyder's Department of Environmental Quality, which knew but refused to address resident complaints or accept research that children were being poisoned, put the Flint water crisis in his lap.
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2016/03/19/gov-snyder-needs-emergency-manager/81974704/
It was all somebody else’s fault: The levees weren’t strong enough. The emergency notice didn’t come soon enough. The amount of emergency transportation was woefully lacking. Plenty of people shared blame after the fact. But who’s ultimately responsible for a city before and during a crisis: The mayor.
And if the mayor has been supplanted by an emergency manager, then the governor.
Snyder's Department of Environmental Quality, which knew but refused to address resident complaints or accept research that children were being poisoned, put the Flint water crisis in his lap.
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2016/03/19/gov-snyder-needs-emergency-manager/81974704/