Flint, Michigan, is sending out notices to residents who haven’t been paying for their city water services. The notices say that services could be cut off if payment isn’t received. This is a normal civic administrative practice except for one thing: Flint’s water is so badly poisoned that the National Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency have been called in to manage the situation, which has left residents drinking bottled water that’s being given out as an emergency measure.
In a matter that, remarkably, appears unrelated to the problems involving the toxic elements in the water, the city had been enjoined last year from sending overdue notices because of a lawsuit accusing it of raising service rates improperly. But with that restriction lifted, and after a break from issuing notices over the holidays, “officials say they will again start sending warnings to those behind on their bills,” the MLive site reported Thursday.*
As MLive notes in dry fashion:
Some residents have expressed outrage over the fact they are being billed for water they cannot drink without filtration due to elevated lead levels found in water in some Flint homes.
Sounds about right.
Police in Flint also confirmed this week that a break-in was reported over the Christmas holiday at an office in City Hall where documents related to the water crisis were kept. “At this point it’s hard to tell if any files were taken,” the city’s mayor says, but no other offices were apparently targeted by the burglary.
Federal authorities announced on Jan. 5 that they will investigate whether the water crisis, which you can read more about here, involved any criminal activity. As Daily Kos puts it, “It’s probably just a coincidence that this break-in occurred in the mayor’s suite, in the one office containing the documents relating to the lead poisoning of residents, with no other offices burglarized, just days before confirmation the federal government is officially investigating.”
This has been on going for 2 years. Not only does Flint owe its residents refunds on 2 years of water bills it owes huge damages for poisoning. I don’t understand why they are acting like this is new. Fir 2 years I have been avoiding restaurant s on Flint water.
It’s getting hard to read the news, because more and more articles provoke the same question: “When do the heads start rolling?”
That piece of Jew schit known as “Snyder” intentionally poisoned his constituents, and now wants to bill them for it?
Is there a suitable reaction to this that doesn’t involve a head dropping into a basket?
Actually, do you remember the whole let’s start booting out mayors and in stalling emergency managers appointed by the state bandwagon that Snyder and Scott Walker was on a few years back? This is the result. Flints emergency manager made this call and Snyder, city officials, county officials….every other surrounding county….all knew about it
“Actually, do you remember the whole let’s start booting out mayors…”
Therein lies the problem.
Traitors need to be hung, not ‘booted’.
“We deserve a response when we ask a question of our local officials,”
and if we get Bullshit or Lies.. or misdirection.. it should be a hang-able offence .. at the least immediate removal never to “serve” in government again at any level
“Is there a suitable reaction to this that doesn’t involve a head dropping into a basket?”
Lock & load comes to mind, JR.