Patterson suggests Flint water crisis may be overblown

[KamaAina]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/19/flint-water-detroit-economic-club/79007136/

Two of the top issues in the state — Flint’s lead-tainted water and Detroit's troubled schools — were at the top of the discussion today as southeast Michigan’s Big Four political leaders appeared before the Detroit Economic Club luncheon.

The often-controversial Oakland County executive, L. Brooks Patterson, suggested the Flint water crisis may have been blown out of proportion, citing a radio interview on Paul W. Smith’s and Frank Beckmann’s show on WJR-AM (760) with Bill Ballenger, a longtime political observer and former state lawmaker who lives in Flint.

Patterson said Ballenger told Beckmann that the water crisis is overblown, and that tests on Ballenger’s blood found no elevated lead levels. Patterson said Ballenger’s remarks offer “the other side” to the story of what’s happening in Flint, where testing has found dangerously elevated lead levels in children after the city switched from getting water from Lake Huron through Detroit's water department to water from the Flint River.

Patterson said Ballenger “was adamant that he lives in Flint, he drinks the water, he showers in that water,” and that blood tests found no evidence of lead in his system. He said Ballenger called the water crisis a hoax and “one of the most overblown scandals in the history of the state."

I wonder if he also believes Obama was born in Kenya, and that no plane hit the Pentagon on Nineleven(TM).

[Vinca]

1. Ballenger needs to have a bone biopsy.

Lead clears the body in a relatively short period of time, but remains in the bones for about 10 years.