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amborin

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 07:25 PM Mar 2016

Chelsea Tapped to Launch Transparently Political Effort to Help Flint


Chelsea Clinton tapped to launch transparently political effort to help Flint, Michigan



Raise your hands if you didn’t see this one coming.

After making several trips to Michigan to bolster her numbers there against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton seemed to be all in on the Flint water crisis as a tool to help bolster her campaign. The original idea to have a debate there supposedly came from Team Clinton and she’s been pounding the issue as hard as she can.

But all of the lip service in the world can’t replace good old fashioned hard cash, so daughter Chelsea has now been deployed to start up a new effort to distribute water to the citizens affected by the lead poisoning crisis. (Detroit Free Republic)

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver and former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced a new program Sunday — the Flint WaterWorks initiative — which will provide the city’s youth with jobs to directly help families affected by the water crisis.

Through the program, young adults will be given jobs distributing clean water, healthy food and nutrition information and services to families. They also will help make “Flint’s water infrastructure safe,” Weaver said, by aiding her Fast Start initiative to remove all lead and lead-tainted serv.....

J.B. Pritzker is known as “The Other Mayor of Chicago” and he’s no stranger to the Clintons’ inner circle. A bit of quick checking will show you that he was the national co-chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign during her first run in 2008. And strangely enough, his sister is part of the whole Obama – Clinton cabal as well.

Clinton’s second Chicago fundraising stop Wednesday evening also comes with some Obama-related history. It’s being hosted by billionaire J.B. Pritzker, who supported Clinton in 2008, even though his sister, now Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, was leading Obama’s national fundraising drive.

Oh… he’s also been a long time, major donor to the Clinton Foundation, so I suppose one hand washes the other.


http://hotair.com/archives/2016/03/07/chelsea-clinton-tapped-to-launch-transparently-political-effort-to-help-flint-michigan/
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Chelsea Tapped to Launch Transparently Political Effort to Help Flint (Original Post) amborin Mar 2016 OP
wonder what her pay will be? 2pooped2pop Mar 2016 #1
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