Michigan DEQ Procured Flint Water Crisis Propaganda Training From Former DEQ Flint Water Crisis Director

As of right now, I am just going to drop this one and let the U.S. Oversight Committee handle it.

You can not make this stuff up.

Congressional Hearing Of The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform On Flint Water Crisis, February 3, 2016.

The matter is currently being criminally and civilly investigated by the U.S. DOJ.

There will be future congressional hearings.

  

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Ex-Flint water spokesman paid to train state ag workers

A former spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality who resigned in the wake of the Flint water crisis provided media training this year for state employees, according to a contract obtained by Bridge Magazine.

Brad Wurfel is listed as “key personnel” in the three-year, $49,000 contract between the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Devleopment and Kandler Reed Khoury & Muchmore, a Lansing consulting firm where Wurfel served as director. KRKM partner Deb Muchmore also is listed as key personnel in the contract.

Wurfel resigned from the MDEQ in December 2015 after a state task force criticized the state’s “dismissive and disrespectful tone” to data from researchers outside of state government who discovered elevated levels of lead in Flint's water and the bloodstreams of the city's children.

Wurfel is no longer with KRKM, but launched his own “communications consultancy” in June, Muchmore said.

The firm secured a contract with the Agriculture department earlier this year for media and communications workshops, Muchmore said. Wurfel participated in in the April and June workshops, the latter of which took place after he had left the firm.

The first training was in Frankenmuth and the second in Grand Rapids.

“Any future workshops we provide will be delivered by KRKM, and without Brad’s role,” Muchmore said.

When contacted for this story, Wurfel said his line was breaking up and he would call back. He has not returned subsequent calls for comment.

A call and email to the state Agriculture Department were not immediately returned.

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