Aretha Franklin offered free hotel rooms and meals to Flint residents, Mark Wahlberg and Sean Combs sent a million water bottles and Snoop Dogg parlayed with Flint’s mayor while wearing a “Flint Lives Matter” T-shirt. Every day brings a new celebrity. Not all the attention helps. As if Flint hasn’t already suffered enough -- what with water so bad, GM stopped using it because it corroded their auto parts -- the industrial town an hour northwest of Detroit has become a national flashpoint of political discourse.
Imagine what happens when the Democratic candidates show up next month to debate.