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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders at Warren rally: Snyder should resign
At a packed rally in Warren tonight, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called on Gov. Rick Snyder to resign in the wake of Flint's water crisis as he looks to draw support for his candidacy.
We are going to win here in Michigan, Sanders told the raucous crowd of more than 1,000 at Macomb Community College. He later drew the loudest applause of the night when he said: I think the governor should do the right thing and resign.
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During tonight's speech, Sanders recounted a visit with parents from Flint, including one woman whose nine-year-old daughter used to be vivacious and outgoing but who has now been placed in special education classes because of her exposure to Flints lead-tainted water. Flint's water became contaminated with lead after a failed effort to switch the water supply. Experts have estimated that as many as 8,000 children under six years old could have been exposed to water with high levels of lead, which can cause brain damage, especially in young people.
I have never left a room as shattered as I was listening to the pain of what was going on in Flint, Sanders told the crowd. I could not believe I was listening to people who are living in the United States of America in the year 2016.
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Sanders also highlighted his longtime opposition to federal trade agreements, which he says Clinton supported. He argued that he was picketing against those trade deals in the early 1990s.
Speaking with the Free Press before the rally, Sanders said that those trade agreements have led to jobs lost in Michigan especially. He added that in Michigan cities, You are looking at community after community that has been devastated by disastrous trade policies.
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http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/03/05/bernie-sanders-rally-rick-snyder-resign/81385654/
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Bernie Sanders at Warren rally: Snyder should resign (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Mar 2016
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. My home state. Gonna vote Bernie next Tuesday!!!
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)3. Go get em, longship!
longship
(40,416 posts)6. Aye, aye! Sir!
putitinD
(1,551 posts)2. I'm in Michigan, and about everybody I know is voting for Bernie,
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)4. What part of Michigan do you live in, putitinD?
Peace to you.