The editor of the Detroit News declared Hillary Clinton was abandoning her work in Flint since the Michigan primary passed.
The newspaper claimed that Clinton left Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to learn “a tough lesson about the political spotlight — it switches off quickly once you no longer serve its purpose.”
“Clinton even cut a national commercial that claimed once she found out what was going on in Flint and gave Washington the what-for, federal funds began flowing to the city,” the Detroit News wrote of Clinton’s former involvement in the city. “And then the campaign moved on. With New York and other states on her mind, Clinton forgot about Flint and Weaver.”
In early 2016, Clinton helped bring the Flint water crisis to the national stage, highlighting it in debates and in her campaign ads, but after losing the Michigan primary to Bernie Sanders, she’s moved on from the issue and no longer brings it up on the trail.
The Detroit News claims that Clinton left the mayor struggling without the “intense national attention” the city received before the primary, and that this will hurt Flint’s chances of capturing “those federal funds Clinton boasted delivering but still haven’t arrived.”
The Democratic front-runner will return to Detroit in May to headline the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner, an opportunity the Detroit News hopes Clinton will use to “dust off Flint.
Clinton lost the Michigan primary to Bernie Sanders.
