Cenk Uygur
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Governor's Office KNEW Flint's Water Was Toxic Over A Year Ago
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February 27, 2016
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6:52Now PlayingEmails reveal that aides inside Governor Rick Snyder's office knew about the Flint water crisis over a year before the story broke. They even provided bottled water for government workers there. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Jimmy Dore hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“The emails in question were sent by Valerie Brader, then the governor’s environmental policy adviser, and Mike Gadola, then his chief counsel. The governor himself was not a recipient, but his closest advisers were, including his chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, and communications director. Snyder staffers told the News they did not take their concerns directly to the governor until October 2015, when the water supply was switched.
On October 14 2014, after General Motors said it would stop using Flint water because it was corroding auto parts, Brader advised that Flint reconnect to the Detroit water supply. Gadola concurred, adding a sense of personal urgency—he grew up in Flint, and his mother still lived there, he wrote.”
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