Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says

cnn.com ^ | 5/9/16 | Sara Ganim, Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley and Lorenzo Ferrigno,cnn

[ColdOne]

(CNN)The mayor of Flint, Michigan, reacted to a federal lawsuit which claims donors were directed away from a charity for victims of the city's water crisis and toward a fund sharing a name with her campaign fund Wednesday, calling the allegations "outrageously false." In the suit filed Monday, fired administrator Natasha Henderson claims that in February 2016, Flint's current mayor, Karen Weaver, directed a former city employee and a city volunteer to stop directing potential donors to a charity called Safe Water/Safe Homes. That charity was run by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint and had been approved by the city for water-crisis donations. Instead, the lawsuit claims city employee Maxine Murray was directed by Weaver to begin directing donations to "Karenabout Flint." According to the

[Steely Tom]

... calling the allegations "outrageously false."

Should be easy enough to prove or disprove. Someone's not telling the truth.

[PROCON]

... calling the allegations "outrageously false."

IOW, "Oops, I got caught...Deny, deny, deny."

[refreshed]

That’s funny. By the way, if you go to her karenaboutflint.com website and you click on the donate button, it wraps back around to the homepage. Interesting.

[Billthedrill]

But...that would be dishonest...

[VTenigma]

No, it’s the governors’ fault Michael Moore said so.

[CMailBag]

I’d bet that the pipes were in the ground before the Governor was born.

[Bullish]

The folks responsible for poisoning the citizens of Flint should be lined up against a wall and shot.

[SunkenCiv]

[Chode]

[Arm_Bears]

But . . . but . . . I thought everything in Flint was the fault of the Republican governor.

[familyop]

Local government: now more communistic than federal government.

OpenSecrets.org
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] $94,708,977
[To Dems & liberals:] $93,739,954
[To Repubs & Conservs:] $671,755
[Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99%
[Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%

[familyop]

The big picture. In politics, there's really no "conservative" now.

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...and pensioners from the same.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts

[Rumplemeyer]

I’d bet that the pipes were in the ground before the Governor was born.

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[sergeantdave]

Hope this winds around, goes back and ensnares that filthy, thieving commie bitch Jennifer Granholm. She owes many, many Michiganders, including me, a ton of money.

[PGR88]

Is it Loretta Lynch’s sister? Sure looks like it. Probably thinks like her too

[vetvetdoug]

Race of professional victims creating more victims.

[Gritty]

Are there any cities run by blacks that aren't corrupt?

I suppose I could extend that to "Democrats" as well...

[GOPJ]

The press will NOT be interested in this story..

[ColdOne]

Thank you for link.