While some compliment the candidate’s visit for bringing attention to the city as its water crisis continues,others see a candidate plying a cause ‘just to acquire 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, and neck-and-neck race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Source: theguardian.com