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The first to elevate that issue of democracy. you were on the story before it was a water crisis story. so thank you, we would be nowhere without you. in 2011, flint lost democracy overnight. we had a state appointed emergency manager in charge and their only job was to save money. no matter what the cost. and it was too expensive, i guess, for us to get great lakes treated water. instead we got it from the flint river and it wasn't treated properly. all of this happened because of usurped democracy. it was taken away from people. at one point in michigan half of our african-american populatio...

9,000 to go. until the infrastructure work is complete, people need to stay on filtered and bottled water. >> the way we got to the story in the first place on this show way back in the day, was that we had been covering the emergency manager law in michigan where your locally elected officials can be pushed aside, taken out of all decision making process and the government, the governor specifically can say we're not going to recognize the results of your local elections anymore, we're going to do it our way because we know what's best. that's part of the flint water crisis story because it w...