The mayor of Flint, Mich., has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the wake of the water crisis in her city.
“She has been the only candidate, Democrat or Republican, to say ‘What can I do and help?,'” Mayor Karen Weaver, a Democrat, told the press on a conference call Tuesday. “We need a fighter in the white house … and Hillary Clinton has said that she will take that on.”
When further pressed if that meant she was endorsing Clinton, Weaver responded “It does seem like it, doesn’t it?”
Following the discovery that the water was contaminated and the declaration of the state of emergency in the city, Clinton spoke of Flint in her closing statement of the Democratic debate on Sunday. She criticized the state’s lack of responsiveness to working-class and African-American Flint residents, saying, “If the kids in a rich suburb of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it, there would have been action.”
Clinton also claimed that she successfully convinced the governor of Michigan to take action on the water crisis, something that his office later disputed.
