Flint water crisis: residents say Hillary Clinton ‘coming for the entertainment’
by Lucia Graves in Flint, Michigan from on (#13788)
While some praise the candidate's visit for bringing attention to the city as its water crisis continues, others see a candidate plying a cause 'just to get votes'
Hillary Clinton has made every effort to make Flint her own. The water crisis afflicting this predominantly black Michigan city - ignored by Washington politicians for years - has become another battlefield in a progressive war between Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Race, class and the environment matter again in an issues-based, neck-and-neck race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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