Snyder Concedes Flint is His “Katrina,” a Failure of Leadership Michigan governor vows to earn back

[kpete]

Source: National Journal

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder con­ceded Monday that his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s hand­ling of the Flint wa­ter crisis is a stain on his leg­acy, re­flects poorly on his lead­er­ship, and is aptly com­pared to Pres­id­ent Bush’s mis­hand­ling of Hur­ricane Kat­rina.

“It’s a dis­aster,” he said when asked about the com­par­is­on some crit­ics have made to the 2005 nat­ur­al dis­aster in New Or­leans that be­came a sym­bol of gov­ern­ment mis­man­age­ment—city, state, and fed­er­al. “It’s clearly a neg­at­ive on what we’ve ac­com­plished since I’ve been gov­ernor.”

In a wide-ran­ging in­ter­view on the eve of his state of the state ad­dress, Snyder said he knew last sum­mer about his top aide’s con­cerns that Flint res­id­ents were “get­ting blown off” by the Michigan’s De­part­ment of En­vir­on­ment­al Qual­ity. The MD­EQ waved off his of­fice’s con­cerns, Snyder said. He ac­cep­ted re­spons­ib­il­ity for the lack of ad­equate fol­low up, but the twice-elec­ted GOP gov­ernor said he would not heed calls for his resig­na­tion.

“I want to solve this prob­lem,” Snyder said. “I don’t want to walk away from it.” Both MD­EQ’s dir­ect­or and chief spokes­man were forced to resign, and Snyder has taken sev­er­al steps—al­beit be­latedly—to help Flint identi­fy the ex­tent of the con­tam­in­a­tion and to re­spond to it. He said more ac­tion will be re­vealed in Tues­day night’s ad­dress.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/352793/snyder-calls-flint-his-katrina-catastrophic-failure-leadership?mref=home_top_side_2

[DarthDem]

1. Amazing That . . .

. . . electing know-nothings who hate government to, y'know, govern has these sorts of consequences.

[atreides1]

2. Anyone from Michigan???

“It’s clearly a neg­at­ive on what we’ve ac­com­plished since I’ve been gov­ernor.”

Exactly WTF has he accomplished that didn't hurt the people of Michigan???

[Johonny]

3. +1

[Takket]

9. I'm from michigan, and the answer to your question is...

eom

[sufrommich]

14. He made us a "right to work" state and created

a tax on pensions. In republicanland,that's "progress".

[SamKnause]

4. "I want to solve this problem".

I don't give a flying f**k what he wants.

He needs to be in jail.

Can they recall his slimy criminal ass ???

He did all this damage and destruction to save 15 million dollars.

He refused to seal the lead pipes because it would cost $100.00 per day for 90 days.

$9,000, 00 measly dollars.

To repair the damaged pipes is estimated to cost $1.6 billion.

10 deaths and counting, 10's of thousands poisoned, and $1.6 billion dollars

needlessly wasted.

JAIL is the only justice for this slime !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Initech]

5. Agreed, Synder should be sent to Supermax.

Anything else and it's too light of a punishment.

[SamKnause]

7. Maybe someone could plant a joint on him.

That seems to be a fast track to the big house.

The justice system in this country is a cruel joke !!!!

[Mendocino]

6. An ounce of prevention

is worth a pound of cure. In this case an ounce would have been worth about 80 tons.

[Katashi_itto]

8. Have him drink the water. Him and his family. For the next five years.

[cheyanne]

10. Can Snyder be impeached?

[jeff47]

12. All governors can be impeached.

But you'd have to get the Republican-majority statehouse to do it.

[cheyanne]

16. how about recall?

thanks for the info.

[jeff47]

17. Probably not.

Very few states have recall elections. I have no idea if MI does.

[jeff47]

11. Lead poisoning can not be solved.

Leaving punishment the only option.

[sarisataka]

13. The difference being

Katrina began as a natural disaster. Flint was intentionally caused by human action by people who knew exactly what they were doing

[elias49]

15. The scoundrel's first response: blame someone else.

Fire a couple of underlings, and move on.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Irony hits the GOP's top up and comers.

Synder as well as Walker were considered Vice Presidential probables in this election cycle by many of the Pundit Class just a couple of years ago.