Michigan governor will be called to congressional hearing on Flint water crisis

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-water-idUSKCN0UZ2RR?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other officials will be called to testify next month to a congressional panel about the crisis over lead-contaminated water in the city of Flint, a congressional office said on Thursday.

U.S. Representative Brenda Lawrence, a Democrat, requested the Feb. 3 hearing of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week, said her communications director, Tracy Manzer. The invitation will be specifically for the governor and he cannot send a representative on his behalf, Manzer said.

Susan Hedman, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 5 office in Chicago, and Dan Wyant, former director of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality, are among the other invitees. Wyant resigned in December over the growing crisis in Flint.

...Snyder, a Republican, has rejected calls from critics for his resignation over the crisis. He asked the Michigan state legislature this week to approve $28 million to assist Flint and said there would be additional funding requests. The Michigan House approved the funding unanimously on Wednesday and the bill was in the Senate on Thursday.


so it begins...the wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine, if nobody blocks them!

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1. That Committee is chaired by Jason Chaffatz, so I'm guessing the witness requests went as follows...

1. Jason Chaffatz subpoenas everybody in the EPA to roast them about why they knew about the poisoned water in Feb, but didn't go public with it (despite telling the Michigan DEQ for months, and the Michigan DEQ insisting they didn't have to treat the water), and thus attempts to blame the whole thing on the Federal Government.

2. As a counterweight to the show trial of the EPA, Lawrence asked for Snyder to be subpoenad as well.

This is going to be quite a spectacle.

My guess is that the next thing to happen will be Daryll Issa calling Lois Lerner from the IRS back before HIS committee, and asking her "Did YOU poison the water in Flint Michigan!?" To which she'll reply "I plead the 5th," and they can all say "THERE YOU GO! It WAS the Federal Government that poisoned the water!"

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2. I have a question

Is Rick Snyder human? Because . . . he isn't acting like a human being.

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3. He's a tool. A GOP tool

Don't yet know if he's in the DeVos or the Koch toolbox, or if they are one and the same....