but the city council was just window dressing at that point. they were just a reminder of what democracy used to be, because the real person in charge of flint by then was the emergency manager appointed by governor rick snyder to run the town instead of its elected official ps. when they took that vote to go back to their clean water source, the emergency manager called that decision, that vote, quoting incomprehensible. he said, quote, it s incomprehensible to me that seven members would woont to send more than $12 million a year to the system-serving southeast michigan. even if flint payers could pay it, water from detroit is no safer than water from flint. wrong! wrong a billion times over. but of course, he was the emergency manager. he got to decide what flint did, not the juster-for-show city council. so they may have voted to switch back and save the kids of flint, but that was dead on arrival with rick snyder s emergency manager who kiboshed the whole thing. in this disas erk
emergency manager appointed by governor rick snyder to run the town instead of its elected official ps. when they took that vote to go back to their clean water source, the emergency manager called that decision, that vote, quoting incomprehensible. he said, quote, it s incomprehensible to me that seven members would woont to send more than $12 million a year to the system-serving southeast michigan. even if flint payers could pay it, water from detroit is no safer than water from flint. wrong! wrong a billion times over. but of course, he was the emergency manager. he got to decide what flint did, not the juster-for-show city council. so they may have voted to switch back and save the kids of flint, but that was dead on arrival with rick snyder s emergency manager who kiboshed the whole thing. in this disas erk counting that guy, and the guy who signed the order to switch the water and assigned the assurance that the water from to the new source would be safe, all in all, we have trac