Category: Rick Snyder

Asked about #FlintWaterCrisis FOIA revelations, Gov. Snyder goes into full-on Palin Mode™ word salad

Asked about #FlintWaterCrisis FOIA revelations, Gov. Snyder goes into full-on Palin Mode™ word salad

“Wharrgarbl” – Gov. Rick Snyder At a recent visit to a Flint food kitchen, Gov. Snyder was asked by a reporter about revelations that have come from FOIA requests by various media and watchdog groups like Progress Michigan. “Getting back to those FOIAs, what has disturbed YOU most about what has come out of those?” she asked. What transpired after […]

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#FlintWaterCrisis protest rallies planned today and tomorrow in Flint & Lansing (2/18/16 and 2/19/16)

#FlintWaterCrisis protest rallies planned today and tomorrow in Flint & Lansing (2/18/16 and 2/19/16)

There are two rallies planned to protest the Snyder administration’s lack of effective response to the catastrophic poisoning of the drinking water in Flint. Today, there will be a rally starting at 11 a.m. that being organized by UlltraViolet, MoveOn.org and Democracy for America: A number of organizations are set to protest in Lansing this week in hopes of getting […]

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#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: State House (committee) finally approves money to offset residents’ water bills (and more)

#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: State House (committee) finally approves money to offset residents’ water bills (and more)

NOTE: With so much news coming out of the Flint water crisis, it’s simply not feasible for me to write a separate post about each of them. Therefore, I am putting many of the stories together into a single news round-up post every day or two. You can read all our coverage of the Flint water crisis HERE or by […]

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Number of days since Gov. Snyder admitted there’s a #FlintWaterCrisis: 139. Number of lead water lines removed: ZERO (updated)

Number of days since Gov. Snyder admitted there’s a #FlintWaterCrisis: 139. Number of lead water lines removed: ZERO (updated)

Relentless Positive Procrastination On October 2, 2015, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder admitted that there was a problem with lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint. That was 139 days ago. So far, exactly ZERO lead water lines have been replaced in the beleaguered city. That is about to change. Well, eventually: The state of Michigan announced on Tuesday a […]

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GUEST POST – Joe DiSano: Snyder needs to focus on solutions not PR (updated)

GUEST POST – Joe DiSano: Snyder needs to focus on solutions not PR (updated)

The following guest post was written by Joe DiSano, the principal of DiSano Strategies, a Lansing-based political consulting, lobbying, and public relations firm. DiSano can be reached at joe@joedisano.net and you can follow him on Twitter @joedisano.

Enjoy.

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#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Gov, Snyder releases new emails & things are looking VERY bad for him and his administration

#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Gov, Snyder releases new emails & things are looking VERY bad for him and his administration

“Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Political Suicide” by DonkeyHotey Gov. Snyder releases over a gigabyte of new emails, still none from 2013 and before Gov. Syder released 1.02 GB of emails in pdf form from various departments in his administration. However, none of them are pre-2014, a time period when many of the decisions regarding Flint’s move to the Flint River […]

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Gov. Snyder moves to privatize mental health services in latest budget proposal

Gov. Snyder moves to privatize mental health services in latest budget proposal

Crain’s is reporting that, buried in Governor Rick Snyder’s budget proposal is a section that will shift public funding and delivery of mental health services to private corporations. The move is being fought by patient advocates and the Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards. Gov. Rick Snyder’s $54.9 billion fiscal 2017 budget calls for privatizing the $2.4 billion public […]

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Snyder recall petition language approved but is it a tea party sham?

Snyder recall petition language approved but is it a tea party sham?

After over a dozen attempts by several people to have petition language approved for the recall of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, the State Board of Canvassers finally approved one this week. This one is based on Snyder’s creation of the the State School Reform/Redesign Office which he later moved from the Department of Education to the Department of Treasury, a […]

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#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Even the Emergency Manager knew about Legionnaires’ Disease spike nearly a year ago

#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Even the Emergency Manager knew about Legionnaires’ Disease spike nearly a year ago

NOTE: Those of you who tried to access the site yesterday likely encountered slow load times, frightening “account disabled” warnings, or just a non-loading website. Please accept my profound apology for that. My sodomy post went rapidly viral and overloaded our shared server, taking down all the other sites with it. We have now moved to a new, dedicated (and […]

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#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Let them drink lead, we’re eating very, very expensive cake (and much more)

#FlintWaterCrisis news round-up: Let them drink lead, we’re eating very, very expensive cake (and much more)

While Flint contends with poisoned water, Gov. Snyder throws an opulent party in Ann Arbor Mark Maynard has an explosive post up at his site that starts with a description of a party he had gotten wind of: I got word this past weekend that there was a secret party taking place in downtown Ann Arbor, a posh event inside […]

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UPDATED: Snyder administration knew of huge spike in Legionnaires’ Disease in Flint TEN months before making it public

UPDATED: Snyder administration knew of huge spike in Legionnaires’ Disease in Flint TEN months before making it public

Governor’s point person in Flint knew about Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak for nearly a year before telling his boss An email obtained by Progress Michigan and released today shows that high-level advisors and department heads knew about the spike in Legionnaires’ Disease in Flint in March of 2015, a full nine months before they released the information to the public. The […]

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