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I followed this closely as I live close to Flint. The handling of Flint in the aftermath was an example of partisan politics that went horribly wrong. For example, the state supreme court, which leans left/democrat, ruled that the attorney general office (democrat led) was doing illegal things in the prosecution of the state officials from the time of the incident (who were right/republican). It was quite a mess from numerous angles. The people targeted for prosecution were state level employees (republicans/right) while the people close to the water systems operations (democrat/left) were never really looked at by prosecution that leans democrat/left.

As a local person following the situation, it was hard to tell what was really going on and where opinion pieces (like this and many of the linked articles) were pointing. I suspect people screwed up at all levels and want to just defer blame to the other political party.