How the water crisis in Flint returned to the spotlight

Danielle Green has spent her life in an uphill fight to help her town of Flint, Mich. overcome poverty. The water crisis that has thrown Flint into the national spotlight has set back those efforts — and hit even closer to home, as her own mother has tested positive for lead poisoning

She wasn’t sure who she was going to vote for before sitting down with Bernie Sanders on Feb. 15 — but after seeing his “compassion and sincerity” up close she was won over.

“I just like what he stands for, equality. And he has compassion,” Green, whose mother tested positive for lead poisoning, told me. “When we went in to speak with him. It was he and his wife. They were both extremely concerned and sympathetic about our situation.”
#Flint #water #poverty #leadpoisoning #BernieSanders #election2016 http://mashable.com/2016/02/25/bernie-sanders-hug-flint-michigan/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds#PNGUd.M62Eq9 The plight of Flint, a poor city plagued by aging infrastructure and declining population, has taken center stage on the campaign trail.

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