Post by Logan on Feb 7, 2016 21:58:12 GMT -6
In Flint, Hillary Clinton Prods Congress and Calls Response to Crisis ‘Immoral’
FLINT, Mich. — In the midst of a public health emergency over lead-tainted water, Hillary Clinton, speaking at a black church here on Sunday, implored Congress to pass a bill that would deliver aid, calling the city’s contaminated water supply and the delayed response to it “not merely unacceptable or wrong” but also “immoral.”
“I am here because for nearly two years, Flint’s water was poisoned,” Mrs. Clinton said at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church. “I am here because for nearly two years, mothers and fathers were voicing concerns about the water’s color, about the smell, about the rashes it gave to those who were bathing in it.”
She continued, “For nearly two years, you were told — Flint was told — the water was safe.”
Mrs. Clinton visited 48 hours before voting begins in the New Hampshire primary. Her political rivals used the trip as evidence that Mrs. Clinton, facing a possible loss in New Hampshire, needs to shore up support among African-Americans heading into South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Feb. 27.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/us/politics/in-flint-hillary-clinton-prods-congress-and-calls-response-to-crisis-immoral.html
FLINT, Mich. — In the midst of a public health emergency over lead-tainted water, Hillary Clinton, speaking at a black church here on Sunday, implored Congress to pass a bill that would deliver aid, calling the city’s contaminated water supply and the delayed response to it “not merely unacceptable or wrong” but also “immoral.”
“I am here because for nearly two years, Flint’s water was poisoned,” Mrs. Clinton said at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church. “I am here because for nearly two years, mothers and fathers were voicing concerns about the water’s color, about the smell, about the rashes it gave to those who were bathing in it.”
She continued, “For nearly two years, you were told — Flint was told — the water was safe.”
Mrs. Clinton visited 48 hours before voting begins in the New Hampshire primary. Her political rivals used the trip as evidence that Mrs. Clinton, facing a possible loss in New Hampshire, needs to shore up support among African-Americans heading into South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Feb. 27.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/us/politics/in-flint-hillary-clinton-prods-congress-and-calls-response-to-crisis-immoral.html