Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) opened the Democratic debate Sunday night in Flint, Michigan, by declaring that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder needed to step down or be recalled over the water crisis.
It was the first time Clinton had called for Snyder to resign. Sanders had previously called for Snyder’s resignation.
“I agree the governor should resign or be recalled and we should support the efforts of citizens attempting to achieve that,” Clinton said. “But that is not enough. We have to focus on what must be done to help the people of Flint. I support 100 percent the efforts by your senators and members of Congress to get the money from.”
Sanders argued that the federal government should have taken a bigger role in cleaning up the area’s drinking water. When asked if he would fire the head of the EPA, Sanders responded that he would fire “anyone who knew what was happening and did not act appropriately.”
“President Sanders would make the point that how does it happen in the wealthiest country in the history of the world?” Sanders said. “How did we have so much money available to go to war in Iraq and spend trillions of dollars, but somehow not have enough money not just for Flint, the secretary is right. There are communities all over the country. Not just infrastructure, but education. Detroit’s public school system is collapsing.”
I wish. But it will never happen in this red state. Snyder been lying since day one.
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
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.
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.
Calling for resignation is too kind —