Snyder Defends Emergency-Manager Law Despite Flint Water Crisis
- Michigan governor puts blame on state environmental officials
- 'Total lack of common sense' as lead tainted municipal supply
Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington on March 17, 2016.
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Though Flint’s municipal water supply was poisoned under the watch of a state overseer, the disaster is no reason to scrap Michigan’s emergency-manager law, Governor Rick Snyder said.
“There’s ways to improve” the legislation, which allows governors to appoint officials who take over the functions of local government, Snyder, a 57-year-old Republican, said Friday in an interview at Bloomberg News headquarters in New York.