The charges call into question the efficacy of the emergency manager role, which enables the governor to appoint a representative to help balance a budget of economically failing cities. Other states have similar roles, but Michigan's is the most expansive: Emergency managers have the power to cancel city contracts, unilaterally draft policy, privatize public services, fire elected officials, and more. Flint was one of the first cities in Michigan to be assigned an emergency manager, in 2011.

We're just about to find out how the obstruction of democratic norms and processes works out for us as a nation. Flint's experience does not bode well…

/FFS

Flint isn't the [worst of it.] Public works? Who needs that socialist claptrap. I buy bottled water, and shit in yours.

Yeah, I was gonna say Jeb! drumpf can fix it…