Columnist trashes Harvard for hiring ex-Michigan governor: 'Especially perverse' to hire toxic peopl

[turbinetree]

Published 1 min ago
on July 1, 2019
By Matthew Chapman

Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) has become synonymous with disaster and neglect. He presided over the Flint water crisis, endangered thousands of people, and is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. But none of this deterred Harvard’s Kennedy School from announcing he would be granted a year-long paid fellowship, with Taubman Center for State and Local Government director Jeffrey Liebman touting his “expertise in management, public policy, and promoting civility.”

It is this last supposed skill of Snyder’s — “promoting civility” — that drew scorn from New York Magazine’s Zak Cheney-Rice.

“Snyder was responsible for appointing the head of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality, who ensures water safety statewide, and the emergency manager who oversaw the city when Flint’s water source was switched in 2014,” write Cheney-Rice. “The former governor also appears to have lied about when he first became aware that Flint’s water was unsafe. His administration did not implement emergency procedures until months after they knew about the crisis, while officials continued to insist that the water was safe despite its foul odor, rust color, and the fact that it was causing hair loss and rashes in people who bathed in it.”

Apparently, none of this is matters because Snyder firmly believes in people with differing political views getting along.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/columnist-trashes-harvard-for-hiring-ex-michigan-governor-especially-perverse-to-hire-toxic-people-in-name-of-civility/

Hey Harvard did you read this bullshit about your new employee or fellow getting a lot of money:
Check out these brainy quotes.....................

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rick_snyder

[empedocles]

1. Hired during summer, with fewer students around to protest?

[elleng]

2. I agree, synonymous with disaster and neglect.

WTF is he doing at Harvard? Maybe we should think again what we think of Harvard.

[LisaM]

3. There's more....

His government led the way in partisan gerrymandering. Worse, when MSU first became embroiled in the Nasser scandal, they disastrously chose GOP ex-Michigan governor as the Michigan State interim president because it was though Snyder wouldn't work with a Democrat to investigate (Engler has since, of course, had to resign in disgrace).

I don't call either of those things civil.

[Cartaphelius]

4. Harvard exposes its value

for people.

Since when is hiring a criminal republican businessman illegal? All the qualities necessary to abandon the need to vet.
Especially as such is now considered, openly, acceptable.

I would protest then realize they could give a rip.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Gee. Chelsea Manning's Harvard Fellowship got rescinded.

All she did was expose US government war crimes against brown people.

Snyder poisoned a city of mostly brown people with lead.

Who gets a medal of freeeeeedom?