Michigan inmates pledge to donate a third of their monthly incomes to help Flint

[KamaAina]

http://fusion.net/story/264532/michigan-inmates-donate-flint/

Across Michigan, people are mobilizing to support the struggling city of Flint and its residents, who are stuck with lead-contaminated drinking water. Bottled water and filters are collected every week at churches, and radio ads urge people to give what they can.

That effort is also happening behind bars: At a prison a hour and half drive west of Flint, where many men who grew up in the town are now held, inmates are organizing their own donations for the city’s residents.

Inmates at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia have pledged to donate money for bottled water and filters. Shaka Senghor, a former Michigan inmate who visited the prison on Wednesday to give a talk for a Black History Month event, described the effort in a Facebook post and an interview with Fusion....

“What he said is that we all come from cities like Flint, if not from Flint,” Senghor told me. “He said our responsibility is to do whatever we could on our end to ensure that the mothers and children and family members left behind would have adequate water.”

Come to think of it, prison may be too good for Snyder.

[Octafish]

1. More class than the Snyders.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder threw his wife Sue a birthday party at the West End Grill last week, and this cake, designed by Heather Anne Leavitt, was one of the stars of the evening. (courtesy photo)

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/02/see_the_cake_michigan_governor.html

[beac]

3. What did he tell Leavitt when he ordered that cake?

"I want a confection that encapsulates all of my wife's vapid consumerism."?

And good on those inmates. True class-- unlike Snyder's tacky designer label-worshipping fondant.

[Octafish]

4. ''A little blue box from Tiffany's...''

...and a bag from Nordstrom's."

I'd think any educated person would want more than that, even a Republican.

[gratuitous]

2. Gov. Snyder still hasn't died of embarrassment

Earthlings question anew the existence of a just God.

[Blueguyinthesky]

5. Prisoners doing more to handle this than the govt.

Wow.