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DURHAM, N.H. — Both Democratic presidential candidates said that the federal government should intervene in the crisis in Flint, Mich., where mismanagement by state and local authorities allowed toxic lead to enter drinking water on a massive scale.
“Of course the federal government comes in, and of course the federal government says, ‘You’re not going to be poisoning little kids and ruining their entire lives,’ ” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) during Thursday night’s presidential debate. He called for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), whose administration has been widely blamed for allowing the crisis to escalate. Sanders added: “One wonders, if this were a white suburban community, what kind of response there would have been.” Flint is largely poor and has a significant number of African American residents.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton agreed with Sanders’s call for federal interventon, saying that the federal government ought to intervene, both to give residents clean water and to allow children affected by lead poisoning to have extra health-care and educational assistance.
Clinton said she would seek to bill the state for these federal services if the state is too slow to provide them.
“There have to be ways that we can begin to move, and then make them pay for it, and hold them accountable,” Clinton said.
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“Of course the federal government comes in, and of course the federal government says, ‘You’re not going to be poisoning little kids and ruining their entire lives,’ ” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) during Thursday night’s presidential debate. He called for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), whose administration has been widely blamed for allowing the crisis to escalate. Sanders added: “One wonders, if this were a white suburban community, what kind of response there would have been.” Flint is largely poor and has a significant number of African American residents.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton agreed with Sanders’s call for federal interventon, saying that the federal government ought to intervene, both to give residents clean water and to allow children affected by lead poisoning to have extra health-care and educational assistance.
Clinton said she would seek to bill the state for these federal services if the state is too slow to provide them.
“There have to be ways that we can begin to move, and then make them pay for it, and hold them accountable,” Clinton said.
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This was a great debate between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, top rate.