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I wish. But it will never happen in this red state. Snyder been lying since day one.
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I do not believe Michigan is a red state. He may not resign although he should but I prefer to see him go to prison. He poisoned an entire city. Straight to prison
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Glad to see Hillary join Bernie in calling for the governor to resign. While Republicans would like to pretend otherwise, the buck stops squarely on the governor’s desk in this case.
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Michigan is a blue state in Presidential election years. We’ve voted for a Democrat in the WH since 1992. We have two Democratic Senators. The gerrymandering killed us and allowed the Republicans take over our legislature however. The Republicans that used to come from MI to DC used to be moderate GOPers…not anymore.
OOOOOooo…gotta go. My show’s on.
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Calling for resignation is too kind —
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The water crisis is still ongoing and should have been fixed a long time ago. Actually it should have never happened. I think they sent the water to peoples homes with no treatment at all. But that’s just my opinion based on images of some very foul looking water in jars.
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Did Sanders just say only African Americans know how it feels to be poor, really? There are more white people on welfare, unemployment and SNAP then African Americans. As a white person, I do know what it is like to be poor.
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No, he said white people don’t and can’t ever fully know what it’s like to be black. Which, of course, is true.
I thought both candidates were quite eloquent on that point.
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I would have called for Snyder to resign a long time ago, if I was running.
Resigning would not seem enough. Poisoning a water supply, even if unintentional, should not be excused. It seems to me that taking a year and a half to do anything about it makes it criminal, perhaps even a crime against humanity…
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Bernie did months ago. Hillary joined him tonight.
Naturally, none of the Republican candidates have called for the person who is most responsible for this mess, the Governor, to be held accountable. If the Governor was a Democrat, they’d be calling for his head on a platter.
So it goes
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Just another reason why we need the Supreme Court - gotta start chipping away at the gerrymandering.
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True, my comment was mainly directed at Hillary, who won’t say anything unless it’s approved by the DNC first.
Bernie 2016
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I agree that was what they were saying, but Sanders included that white Americans do not know what it is like to be poor in his list of issues that African American have that white American cannot understand. I take offense to that issues, as more whites are poor, that is a class issues, not just a race issue.
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It is precisely these sort of frankly ignorant comments by some Bernie supporters that turn off many voters (undecideds or Hillary supporters who would still support Bernie if he was nominated). It is vile to show such a complete lack of critical thinking by simply regurgitating what someone has told you and what you want to believe. Very “Fox News-like”. smh
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Republicans hate Hillary. I don’t hate Hillary, but you’d have to have your head in the sand to not realize that she’s pretty much bought and paid for.
She’s way better than Trump or Cruz or any other Republican running so she’ll get my vote in the General regardless. Don’t put all Bernie supporters in the same box.
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Because we tax for military spending at a rate greater than most the rest of the world combined.
I did not interpret it that way. But perhaps that’s just because I already know he doesn’t feel that way. Bernie’s homestate of Vermont has plenty of poor people, overwhelmingly white, many rural, but also in state’s small cities and towns.
And of course Bernie grew up poor in Brooklyn. Whether his family would have been considered “white” at the time (being Jewish immigrants from Poland) is another question. But there’s no question he understands that poverty is not just an African-American issue. If he misstated something to make it sound otherwise, I must have missed it.
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A piece of good news was announced at the end of the debate – a labor union (Anderson Cooper didn’t specify) – has committed $25 million to help replace lead pipes in Flint.
Of course the state should be footing the entire bill – they created the problem. But since the state is basically acting like an absentee slumlord, it falls to others to pick up the slack, and I applaud the union’s generous contribution. But in the end, the state should be sued for every penny the city, and the federal government and anyone else are forced to spend to make up for the state’s error, and for the state’s ongoing neglect and mismanagement of the situation.
And when that bill comes due, if Snyder hasn’t already resigned, he may wish he had. Either way, he will probably leave his successors to clean up the mess and pay the tab. Seems like that’s always the way it goes with Republicans (see Bush, George W.).
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