Michigan resident flames AG Schuette

This got sent to me from a 3rd party.. not sure if its real or not, but if it is, THANK YOU JUNE! 

 You hit the nail on the head..


---------- Original Message ----------
From: June Hendricks 
To: miag@michigan.gov
Date: July 28, 2017 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Grand Rapids Home for Veterans

Mr. Schuette,

You're a disgrace to every intelligent person in the State of Michigan.  By charging only the lowest level employees of falsifying records, you have completely ignored the bigger issues.

What about the neglect and abuse of our veterans, some of which has resulted in death?  What about all the money that has just disappeared?  What about the supervisors, managers, and the higher ups? 

You go after the little guy and make headlines.  You protect the bigger guys and no doubt line your pockets and/or campaign chest with the wealth that was stolen from our veterans.

Your office has numerous reports documenting all of this, yet you only have the gonads to go after the little guys.  You should be ashamed!!

I would have supported your run for Governor, but not now.  You have shown your true colors and they are green and yellow.  Green for the greed of the almighty dollar and yellow at the cowardice to seek the truth and prosecute the true offenders.

I will do my best now to make sure everyone knows what you are and I will never support you as a candidate for anything, ever. 

Shame on you, Bill Schuette, SHAME!!

June Hendricks

Allegan, MI

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Lack of Accountability, not Privatization caused the mess at GRHFV.

The privatization experiment should be ended. We now know that  privatization requires extra vigilance and oversight, for it to work properly and Michigan did not provide that oversight at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.

The fiasco at this location was due to economics and again, poor oversight of the Michigan government.  Gov'r Rick Snyder inherited a broken economy, with low revenue streams and lots of welfare bills.  And a dismal veterans care system. We were in last place.

His solution was to create Michigans own version of the VA. MVAA or Michigan Veteran Affairs Agency was created to get Michigan qualified to obtain Federal money which would be used for caring for the vets.

Then the MVAA, state congress, or who ever, decided to skip the rules, ignore the regulations and when the Administrator at the home retired or was ousted (depending on your point of view),  Sara Dunn was pulled out of the kitchens and made top administrator. Kinda stupid, but that's what they did. It was her administration that is the focus of that really bad VA audit, and the group that advocates wanted to see Atty General Bill Scheutte go after, (which he did not)..

Now Gov' Snyder had a juggling act, with the states budget.. The Granholm administration left it in a total mess.

Part of Snyders idea was to run the home as a for profit business. and you cannot do that. It has been a failure.. And the seeds of that failure have been planted into the new authority for the new vets home model. Not a good idea..  This combined with lack of accountability, is what lead to the problems at the vets home. Accountability that is STILL MISSING as the AG office clearly refuses to impose it.


Recently Atty General Bill Scheutte announced criminal charges on some low level employees. Not one higher up administration person has been charged, even when evidence of their wrong doing was given to the AG office which now claims they don't have.

Higher administration officials let things happen at the home and some of them did the atrocities.


Again this page will name names, call for charges, demand justice for our veterans.