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Originally Posted by astronaut x
Once again, shooting your mouth off with shit you are completely clueless on. A republican mayor in Flint? Since fucking when?
Flint hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1973, that's when. Even that was a short lived experience. The teamsters and the UAW have owned the political influence on that city for 3/4 of a century.
100% authority? Try no authority. The decision to switch from Lake Huron to The Flint River was a state decision. A state with a Republican governor and a house of representatives controlled by........ Republicans.
Republican Gov Rick Snyder and his cronies have been a cancer on that state since taking office. Job one was undermining any democratic or union authority they had access to. Passing the "right to work" law that was solely aimed at dismantling the power of unions, drew huge protests not only from union members, but from average citizens as well.
This is just another shameful example of the war on middle class and working families. So, there is plenty of reason to be calling for the arrest of those responsible, and that responsibility just so happens to fall at the foot of the Governor.
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you dumbfucking shitstain-
the previous fucking mayor, Dayne Walling, was a democrat and lost due to his mismanagement of Flint, up to and including the current water crisis.
"His tenure as mayor included a succession of four emergency managers appointed by the state to run the city and most recently saw a public health crisis swell after lead was found to be leaching into the Flint water system."
Karen Weaver unseats Dayne Walling to win Flint mayor | MLive.com
"On November 8, 2011, Walling defeated Buchanan 8,819 votes (56%) to 6,868 votes (44%). That same day, the Michigan State review panel declared the City of Flint to be in state of a "local government financial emergency". His authority as Flint Mayor was superseded by the appointment by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder of Michael Brown as the city's Emergency Manager on November 29 effective December 1. After a series of emergency manager on April 30, 2015, the state moved the city from under from an emergency manager receivership to a Receivership Transition Advisory Board."