GOP Poisons Flint Michigan

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Were it not for the obstinacy and evasiveness of the Michigan DEQ and other Snyder minions, not to mention their deliberate attempts to discredit those who blew the whistle on this malfeasance (EPA, local health officials and the nation's preeminent researcher on lead contamination of municipal water supplies) and poo-poo customer complaints, I'd say you'd have a point. However, they did and therefore you don't.

This mess was avoidable and deliberate decisions by Snyder and his minions to circumvent the EPA Lead and Copper Rule led to it (and their subsequent behavior prolonged it). EPA warnings about the necessity to add phosphate to protect from the known corrosive nature of the Flint river water were ignored (as the Michigan DEQ actively tried to discredit the EPA source of these warnings).

For a guy from the party of personal responsibility, you're pretty quick to run cover for malfeasance in your state's government.

If any post of mine attempted to excuse the State from culpability, you'd have a point. However I didn't, and therefore you don't.