Mich. Guv Had ‘No Knowledge’ State Offered Staff Bottled Water Starting In 2015

Members of the Michigan National Guard load bottled water at a fire station, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 in Flint, Mich. The Michigan Legislature voted Thursday to direct another $28 million to address Flint's water emer... Members of the Michigan National Guard load bottled water at a fire station, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 in Flint, Mich. The Michigan Legislature voted Thursday to direct another $28 million to address Flint's water emergency, allocating money for bottled water, medical assessments and other costs in the city struggling with a lead-contaminated supply. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) MORE LESS
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says he wasn’t aware that the state offered fresh bottled water for state employees in Flint starting in January 2015, although residents were told that tap water was safe to drink until last fall.

Snyder told WWJ-AM in an interview Friday morning that he had “no knowledge of that taking place.” He says his understanding is that the use of bottled water at the state building in Flint was because of warnings by the Flint officials that were issued at the time.

Flint residents are now warned to drink only filtered or bottled water because of lead contamination.

The agency that manages state buildings said Thursday water coolers were introduced at the building after Flint flunked some drinking water standards that weren’t related to lead.

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  1. Avatar for bckrd1 bckrd1 says:

    he is a liar.

  2. Is Synder serious? He is the former CEO of Gateway. He has run the state like it’s a business. There’s no way he didn’t know.

  3. "The agency that manages state buildings said Thursday water coolers were introduced at the building after Flint flunked some drinking water standards that weren’t related to lead."

    Naturally an enterprising reporter at WWJ-AM asked the obvious question of the agency that installed the water coolers: "You state the coolers were not installed due to the presence of lead in the water, but due to an issue with some other drinking water standard. What was that issue?"
    
    Waiting....waiting.......
  4. Avatar for gajake gajake says:

    “The agency that manages state buildings said Thursday water coolers were introduced at the building after Flint flunked some drinking water standards that weren’t related to lead.”

    Oh, no, that wasn’t about lead at all! That was about an entirely different failure to supply safe drinking water in Flint.

  5. Of course he knew. He said as much right here.

    Snyder told WWJ-AM in an interview Friday morning that he had “no knowledge of that taking place.” He says his understanding is that the use of bottled water at the state building in Flint was because of warnings by the Flint officials that were issued at the time.

    He had an understanding that bottled water was being sent to the state building in Flint, at precisely the time warnings were being raised. That is completely incompatible with saying he had "no knowledge of that taking place:

    So not only is he lying, he is doing a very poor job of lying.

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