Former Flint mayors object to water crisis settlement, ask to speak at fairness hearing Updated 4:33 PM; Today 4:33 PM Woodrow Stanley, former Flint mayor and state representative, speaks before Rev. Jesse Jackson, a known civil rights leader, as they discuss the ongoing Flint water crisis on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, at Heavenly Host Full Gospel Baptist Church on Flint's north side.The Flint Journal Facebook Share FLINT, MI -- Nearly five dozen objections to the Flint water crisis settlement have been logged in U.S. District Court this week, including two from former mayors Karen Weaver and Woodrow Stanley. Stanley’s form-letter objection to the settlement was filed with the court Wednesday, April 21, and part of it says he plans to appear at a July 12 fairness hearing on the $641-million settlement, which has received preliminary approval in federal and state courts.