From the time Flint moved to a strong mayor in 1975 they don't appear to have ever had a Republican mayor, nor can I find any evidence they ever had a majority (or substantial minority) Republican city council. Refuted.
Not refuted: IRRELEVANT.
Sigh. You claimed I didn't and couldn't show decades of Democratic control of Flint, to which I showed 40 years of single party Democratic control and your response is that it's irrelevant? Seriously? Where did you learn to debate, in the school of, "nuh uh"?
And Pyrtolin, if you want to argue about the make up of the council more than 40 years ago maybe you should do a little bit of research and relate your findings.
Bad faith, I said the DWSD was controlled by Democratic appointments - the mayor of Detroit - not that elected officials did anything.
So, it's therefore irrelevant what happened over those past decades, especially since the DWSD was not under the control of the Mayor. I posted the professional backgrounds of all of the 7 members of the DWSD board. They're mostly engineers with broad and deep experience, the others are community leaders with an orientation toward the welfare of their community. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHO APPOINTED THEM?
Since your
entire argument for why Republicans are to blame is based on an appointment, don't you get how your outrage undermines your argument?
In any event, your citation to professional qualifications is misplaced. No one has honestly asserted that the Flint termination occurred when it did because of technical or engineering reasons. It was always nothing but political hardball, for which I'm not aware a degree in Engineering has relevance.
I'll say for the last time (as Pyrtolin also pointed out), that was a "positioning" exchange, not a final determination of anything.
Not clear why you said it the first time, since it doesn't refute in any way my claim that it was coercion and an illegitimate negotiation tactic. It's absolutely laughable that you're going to bat for the power of a corrupt water authority to threaten a poor community with the termination of their water supply, if the poor community doesn't cave to their punitive demands.
There's a bunch you could be right about on this issue, this is not part of it, and your absolutely inability to make any concession, even when you're clearly in the wrong, just further demonstrates that this is nothing but partisan posturing on your part.
It's not clear from the article I cited back to you that any offer was actually made by the DWSD or rejected by Flint. Why do you not want to understand that?
And? What is clear is that the DWSD terminated Flint's water spitefully as a negotiating tactic.
And Pyrtolin, the fact that the termination was done is accordance with the agreement has no real bearing on why it occurred. It didn't occur for any legitimate purpose.
You just have to have a brain. There is absolutely no secret about who ran Flint and Detroit into the ground.
Which has NOTHING to do with Flint changing water systems or failing to ensure the safety of the operations during the sequence of events!
It actually has a lot to do with Flint changing water systems. Flint was stuck for decades paying excessive fees to the corrupt DWSD. A community on the rocks getting the shaft when they should have been protected. Sure it wasn't the only fiscal mismanagement its Democratic officials participated in, but it was part.
You are correct about one thing! It has nothing to do with the duty to ensure the safety of the water supply. That seems to have boiled down to one single decision not to add an additive to the processed river water. Who made that one decision? Do you even know? Was it even a decision? The additive was called for in the plan.
If Flint had added the necessary chemicals to the Flint River water none of this would be a discussion topic. Then the history of Democratic politics and Administration would have nothing to do with the crisis.
Well we wouldn't be talking about it in this way. If we talked about it at all, it would be the same way we've been talking about Detroit. You know as evidence of what the implementation of the policies favored by the left does to a community over time (drive it into the dirt).