Clinton calls Flint water crisis ‘immoral’ in break from NH

The trip also turned attention away from New Hampshire, where she’s lagging in the polls.

Only I have zero faith that something like the Flint disaster can’t happen in IN, where every action by the current governor and his predecessor has been weighed against political consequences, where the slightest possible imposition on business (read: contributors) immediately renders worthless any environmental-protection proposal.

“This to me a personal commitment”, Clinton said.

Yet Democrats including campaign advisers to Clinton and Sanders likely would find it hard not to view the Flint saga as a political bonanza for their party – or, as The Washington Post described it – a “potent symbol of the perils of Republican governance” that is likely to be invoked many time throughout the 2016 campaign.

Like Clinton, Sanders is also looking past the Granite State. On Saturday night, he left the state for an appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” with comedian Larry David, whose imitations of Sanders on the show have quickly gone viral.

By Sunday afternoon Sanders was back in the Granite State talking to voters, and he headlined a rally that attracted 1,200 at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth.

His group, which represents non-appointed state officials, supports the suggestions to the EPA and wants to see the Flint revelations incorporated into the agency’s proposal next year, Taft said.

His stump speech was interrupted periodically by chants of “Feel the Bern”.

“I’m having the best time”, she replied. When he introduced a well-worn anecdote about corporate welfare, audience members recognized it centered on Walmart and called out the name of the company.

The Union Leader asked Clinton how, if she does not win Tuesday, she can meet or exceed expectations. The state was slow to act, it’s true. Meanwhile, Pence has criticized President Obama’s Clean Power Plan-a response to climate change-but is making no visible headway toward deciding if the state should write its own plan.

Clinton aides argue that the heavily white and liberal electorates of New Hampshire and Iowa, where Clinton barely eked out a win, make them outliers in the Democratic primary race.

On Sunday, congregants rejected the idea Clinton was using the issue.

But Flint residents have long complained that state officials ignored their pleas for months – a sentiment Clinton has used to rail against Snyder and make Flint’s water crisis a presidential campaign issue. But by dumping his small-minded, ideological, budget-whacking policies on the people of this largely poor community, he did, in fact, poison them.

The school counselor told her it would shave just a few points off her child’s IQ. “My commitment to this primary and to this state is absolutely rock solid”.