It helps build the narrative that the black community is in its worst condition “ever, ever, ever”.
It also indicates quite clearly just who wants to keep it that way.
Goodness, what is it about the people of FLint that is so undeserving? Is it their cars? Their choice of entertainment? What could it be that’s different about them? Anyone? Anyone? David Duke?
I heard some random ® dickhead on NPR claiming the people of Louisiana NEEDED the money NOW because the flooding had devastated their lives and that the people of Flint could wait because their situation wasn’t as critical.
Made me wanna puke.
I was just in Flint last weekend for a wedding. The house I stayed at is still using bottled water for drinking, cooking, and tooth-brushing over a year after the problem was officially acknowledged, though my hosts started buying their own water sometime before. Some small percentage of the lead lines to homes in the town have been replaced, and no one can say when the water will be safe, despite some remediation, because of the extent of the damage to the system caused by the State’s “fiscal responsibility”. Who can argue with Kildee that a similar crisis in, say, Grosse Pointe would have been handled with some greater degree of urgency and effectiveness? Brain damage in those kids would focus Republican minds. It’s just like the opioid crisis engendering calls for increased treatment and medical coverage because it’s growing in the white communities; back when it was identified as an “urban” problem, we just called for longer prison sentences.
But the Governor wants us to know that he’s on top of it by bravely drinking a glass of Flint water. Like the Republicans in Congress, he’s there for the residents.
GOP hatred of Flint tells the tale.
Never forget it.
Well, “The Blacks” don’t vote R, so…
Say something less obvious.
“Why Democrats Will Never Pass A Government Funding Bill That Leaves Flint Behind”
…because they’d get killed at the polls?
Also, what the heck is this:
After weeks of negotiations, McConnell’s proposal to fund the government until Dec. 9 included a lot of things Democrats could claim victory on. There was a bipartisan deal to fight Zika in the U.S. and no mention of blocking the transfer of ICANN-an obscure internet domain naming agency– from the U.S. to an international body.
I don’t get it. This seems to indicate that the Democrats are in favor of transferring ICANN out of our control…why?
Re: ICANN
In fact, moving away from US control may be able to preserve free speech by keeping the system free from government control.
Here.
Hmmmm. Need to reflect on that I suppose.
I’m trying to figure out if there is some deeper, smarter political move here and i just can’t see it. What on Earth would posses the Repubs to leave Flint out (from a political stand point in a Presidential Election Year)?
I know they don’t care and only want to cater to their racist base instead of reaching out to African Americans, Latinos, LGBT and Women but, you’d think they would at leaat attempt to fake it.
So once again the Party of Responsibility, Accountability, and Integrity, show that they don’t care twice and never had to begin with.
But isn’t interesting that the Republicans when faced with water problems can’t seem to understand that in both cases the cause of the devastation were both man-made. Flint by a Republican administration and LA by a group of Republicans that deny science.
But apparently the Democrats have no problem leaving behind poor Hispanics – they don’t even bother to vote. Given the water problems are four times worse than Flint in the southern San Joaquin Valley, you’d think the Democrats would be doing everything in their power to get Emilio Huerta elected in a 71% Hispanic district in California (with a 17% Democrat registration advantage!). DCCC never woke up to this race after Huerta won his primary in June.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-or-a-third-world-country_us_57c81ad4e4b078581f1129f5?
Talk about stuff that will make your head spin. Houses can be rebuilt; brains damaged by lead not so much.
Neurotoxins are forever.
GOP grand strategy: lower their IQ’s enough until they vote Republican.
Su vota es su voz.
There is a bigger problem with Huerta’s candidacy: his residence is actually in Majority Leader McCarthy’s district. The Republican incumbent (David Valadao) is a dairy farmer in Hanford. He also faces an uphill fight: in the jungle primary, Huerta and Parra combined for 45% of the vote. Valadao got 55%.
Alll that said, Huerta has a solid pedigree: his mom is UFW organizer Dolores Huerta.
McCarthy is essentially running unopposed, the Democrat isn’t even trying. On the other hand, CA-21 is a very interesting race. Not only can the Dems take it, they can keep it (much like McNerney to the north since the redistricting in 2013)
I wouldn’t worry about that address thing. Huerta’s a Delano boy through and through, and a familiar advocate in Bakersfield courts on cases involving children and poor adults.
The saying here is that Valadao has money, Big Ag and Big Oil (CA-21 is home to 90% of the state’s fracking activity), but Huerta has the people. Valadao is in trouble if the voter turnout exceeds 90,000. Compare that to east coast rep contests where turnout can easily top 250,000. The voters are Valadao’s biggest enemy, and it will be hell for him if they ever figure that out.
I’m a Bakersfield boy: I attended BHS and graduated from CSUB back when we referred to it as “Tufts in the Tules” or “Harvard on the Highway” and it was the only thing out there other than roadrunners, coyotes, oil rigs and the occasional kit fox.
I’d love to see Huerta win: it would be nice to have a 'runner alumnus in Congress who was something more than a cipher. But it’s an uphill fight – and turnout is key.