The GOP's Criminal Treatment of Flint, MI

A good run down of the problems created by the removal of accountability in government, through the Reign of the Emergency Managers, which was imposed on Michigan's cities by the Republican Party.

Flint was one of the first cities to be assigned an emergency manager in 2011, and over the course of four years had four such managers. One of the first manager's first acts was to suspend local government, and this remained essentially in force until the departure of the last emergency manager in 2015. Even today, Flint is under the scrutiny of a "transition advisory board" that has veto power over any local decision, and that has frequently overstepped its professed limited mandate to assure fiscal restraint.