Ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Elijah Cummings was justifiably pissed off at the debacle that is Flint, Michigan’s water crisis. The first hearings, held last week, starred Joel Beauvais, acting deputy assistant administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Keith Creagh, director, Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan; Marc Edwards, Virginia Tech professor, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, and a Flint resident LeeAnne Walters. Representative Cummings spent the opening parts of his statement going in on Keith Creagh—director of Michigan’s Environmental and Water Resources.
Creagh, in his defense, is a foil here for the fire that Cummings is about to unleash. That fire is directed at Governor Snyder—whom Cummings says he “hopes is watching this” at the beginning. Elijah Cummings has no time for Snyder’s excuse that the city council of Flint is at fault here, pointing out that the city council of Flint did not vote to change the water source for Flint, nor does the city council have any power in this regard.
Why would Governor Snyder try to blame the city council for this decision when it was his own appointee who made it and you have a city council that has no authority! There is something wrong with that! That’s why I interjected here because I want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!
Clapping and agreement from the audience.
He proceeds to ask whether the residents of Flint are still having to pay for this water. This water they cannot wash in or drink from.
This is not American! This is not a third world country!
Watch as the truth comes blazing down from on high, below the fold.