Flint Mayor Karen Weaver wrote a letter to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz bashing President Trump and commiserating over their treatment by the federal government.
The mayor of Flint, Michigan, still enduring a polluted-water crisis, sent a letter of solidarity to the mayor of hurricane-battered San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week in which she commiserated over their treatment by the government and bashed President Donald Trump.
“I am utterly disappointed and outraged by the lack of active engagement and support from this administration during the recent visit,” Flint Mayor Karen Weaver wrote to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz on Wednesday.
Weaver said she felt a “special sisterhood” with Yulin Cruz because both women felt forced to publicly challenge the federal government to do more to help their communities.
Weaver was elected in 2015 on a promise to solve her city’s water crisis, which dates back to 2013, when the city started drawing improperly-treated drinking water from the Flint River. After denials from government officials, it was revealed that the new system was leaching lead.
