Detroit TV Reporter in Hot Water on MSNBC
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 11th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Detroit TV Reporter in Hot Water on MSNBC
A Detroit activist and a TV reporter got into a shouting match on MSNBC Tuesday as they discussed how thousands of the city’s residents have been left with no water. In March, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department announced plans to stop water service for customers who were behind on their bills; since then, it has shut off water for more than 12,000 people, according to The New York Times. Addressing claims by Hank Winchester, a reporter for Detroit’s WDIV, Maureen Taylor of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization said, “”Let me say shame on Hank, shame on him for putting that lie and that mess and that disinformation out on the air. To suggest that people don’t want to pay for a water bill is scandalous,” Taylor said.
Want Sentencing Reform? Throw Republicans in Jail
A former Republican member of Congress is ready to join the fight for sentencing reform and rolling back harsh mandatory minimums for drug crimes. Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.), 72, is now a free man after a federal judge ended his supervised release early following seven years in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on corruption charges. “Unfortunately, some of my Democrat colleagues were right and I was wrong on some issues as far as criminal justice,” Cunningham said, specifically regretting votes for mandatory minimums for drug crimes that take discretion away from federal judges and give federal prosecutors a tremendous amount of leverage over defendants.
