Only One Of The 23 Presidential Candidates Has Gone To Flint This Year. People There Want Them To Know The Crisis Isn’t Over.
to Flint in February last year and met with local leaders working on the recovery. He often brings up his time in Flint on the campaign trail this year."One of the most emotional meetings I ever had in my life was in Flint, Michigan, talking to the parents whose kids were poisoned by the lead in the water there," he said at a May stop in South Carolina."Very hard meeting to deal with.
Of those, 21,617 have been checked so far, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver told BuzzFeed News, and 8,496 of those needed replacing and were replaced. The city still has around 7,000 pipes to examine. But even when that process is done, there is no organized process for replacing the pipes actually inside people’s homes.
“I joke about not having kids. This is the first time I will admit it’s because I’m scared that I have lead in my bones,” she said, adding that she knows there are other young women in Flint who feel the same way, especially after seeing the spike in miscarriages. “I was out today in the city taking pictures and checking on the contractors that were out there changing pipes, and when people were saying, ‘Well, my pipe has not been checked, how can you sign off and say it’s safe?’” Weaver said.
“I’m kind of mad that you’re even calling me right now,” said Nayyirah Shariff, another resident and activist. “Because candidates are coming through now, suddenly, ‘Oh yeah, Flint’s still there.’”
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