Hillary Clinton to tour the devastated city of Flint, Michigan

[riversedge]

Source: msnbc.com




02/06/16 09:37 AM

By Tony Dokoupil

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The Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to visit the faded American factory town with the undrinkable taps. Her plan is to tour the city with Mayor Karen Weaver, learning about the state of the crisis and the efforts to fix it.
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Ever since the state declared a man-made emergency in early January, Clinton has hammered the problem and the Republican administration that caused it. Her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has also fired shots at Michigan, calling for the resignation of Gov. Rick Snyder.

But Clinton’s attention has been deeper and more consistent, according to those close to Mayor Weaver.

“She’s the only one actually trying to help Flint,” said Shayne Hodges, a Flint father of three and friend of Mayor Weaver.

“Secretary Clinton has been in touch with the mayor personally and the two staffs have been in consistent contact,” Kristin Moore, the mayor’s communication director told MSNBC. “As far as I know,” she added, “Clinton is the only presidential candidate—Republican or Democrat—who has reached out.
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Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-tour-the-devastated-city-flint

[hoosierlib]

1. And the pander bear is off to Flint...

She has to shore up the PoC vote heading into SC...

[bigdarryl]

10. She was invited by the Mayor so I guess she was supposed to turn the

Invitation into a no.JESUS!!!!!!

[dembotoz]

2. maybe wall street can donate a few miles of gold pipes to replace the lead ones

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. will she give a $200,000 speach and never say...

what Sanders said - the monsters that did this need to be in prison and that this is what America can expect if we keep electing republicans and establishment democrats

[bowens43]

4. is there any tragedy she won't exploit to get her hands on the power she so craves?

[Bernin]

9. Ding Ding Ding

We have a winner!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. No matter what Bernie does the Hillary campaign will claim it's not as good as her photo-ops.

[Geronimoe]

7. Just send some corporate money!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if she delivered a bag of money from Goldman Sachs to help buy drinking water for the children. It seems she and most of the Democrats only took a day or two to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Banksters when they needed help. And the Bankster's children weren't even being poisoned.

[Vinca]

8. I'll believe this is sincere if they DON'T turn it into a commercial.

[Overseas]

12. I think it would be a good commercial about Republican Values-- appointing Emergency Managers who

care more about saving money than saving lives.

[Vinca]

15. It would be a better pro-Hillary commercial.

"I was in Flint and where was my opponent? Doing Saturday Night Live!" It's only a matter of time before it's on your screen. If she's sincere she won't exploit the Flint tragedy.

[Overseas]

11. K&R. I'm glad she's helping keep the spotlight on the Flint Water Crisis.

Hope it reminds voters of the destructiveness of GOP policies. The anti-democratic dangerous appointment of Emergency Managers by the inept Governor Snyder who should have resigned already at the very least.

[hughee99]

13. This seems like exactly the sort of situation the Clinton Global Initiative and it's gobs of cash

could fix.

[LiberalArkie]

14. Results of jury decision on Gman post # 5

On Sun Feb 7, 2016, 11:20 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Where TF is Sanders?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1339808

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Accusing Sen Sanders of racism is over-the-top And this is also racist: "I vote with the NRA so Blacks can have guns"


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Explanation: ugh. whole lot of ugly here.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: "I vote with the NRA so Blacks can have guns" What is this posters problem? I can not believe that this person is a Democrat. We have so many R's here stirring the pot it is really sickening.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: voting to hide this not because it's rude (since most everything in GDP is rude these days) but that several of the assertions are not supported by fact.
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Explanation: Typically I'd vote to let a comment this stand. But this was so far off topic and so blatantly racist that it needs a hide.
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