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Yoshifan823
Feb 19, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

BlackIronHeart posted:

It's a bit more complicated and hosed up than that. The Detroit Free Press has written about it quite a bit.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/01/16/president-obama-declares-emergency-flint/78898604/


Basically, our Governor appointed an Emergency Manager to run the city because it was in bad financial straits. The appointed EM, Darnell Earley, went about slashing and cutting costs to try and resolve the financial situation. Not that he wants to admit that now, of course.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/14/in-flint-bad-tap-water-runs-politically-deep/

I feel like it has to be pointed out that, in the WP article here, Darnell Earley is apparently now the Emergency Manager of Detroit Public Schools, which are also in the news as of late because teachers have staged multiple sickouts over the last few months due to the absolutely atrocious conditions of the buildings they work in.

In short, this dude is, at best, tremendously terrible at his job, and at worse, a horribly corrupt shithead who loves to make life harder for children.

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