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.
