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.
he is a liar.
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.
"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."
“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.
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.