Flint residents will be hired to help test water

Just weeks after Michigan’s governor issued an apology for the state’s handling of the Flint water crisis and petitioned the Obama administration to declare a state of emergency, he reportedly threw a secret, lavish party for his wife.

Snyder’s representative, Dave Murray, said that the Governor was busy with a budget presentation that he is supposed to give to the state legislature that day and will not be available to attend the hearing. Democrats also invited Michigan’s Republican Governor Rick Snyder to appear but he passed on the invitation.

The situation arose after a state-appointed emergency manager directed Flint to move away from the Detroit water system and tap the polluted Flint River for the city’s drinking water.

Their mission: to bring clean water and hope to the people of Flint.

Separately, the family of a 2-year-old girl from Flint, who tested high for lead levels, has filed a federal lawsuit against various officials in MI and Flint, including Snyder.

The Flint water crisis has been going on now for far too long and residents of the MI city still have no end in sight for their potential healthcare problem. Many residents now have to use filters before consuming water in their homes.

Great Lakes Water Authority CEO Sue McCormick told The Detroit News she’s “extended an offer for conversation” to Flint, which is facing a crisis with lead-tainted water.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced January 5 that it was assisting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a Flint drinking water investigation and Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman, said federal prosecutors are “working with a multi-agency investigation team on the Flint water contamination matter, including the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, EPA’s Office of Inspector General, and EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division”. It alleges that the lead-laced water caused a number of problems for Sophia, including an inability to sleep, excessive irritability, skin rashes, digestive problems, and chronic anxiety.

State regulators never required that the river water be treated to make it less corrosive, causing lead from plumbing and pipes to leach into the water supply.

Meanwhile, Snyder has fired the first official tied to the water crisis.

In December of 2015, then-director of the DEQ Dan Wyant resigned.

On Sunday, Democrat presidential candidate left New Hampshire for a campaign stop in Flint, where she told the packed House of of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church that “what happened in Flint is immoral” and that “the children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any part of America”.

In recent days, she has used the state as a testing ground for new campaign messages targeted at specific groups, with pledges to break “the highest and hardest glass ceiling” and promising young voters that she would “be for them” even if they support Sanders.