Admitting your mistakes, and then doing what you can to rectify them, takes integrity and strength. And in the end, I felt the governor cared—and was truly sorry. This gave me hope, because a man who cares and feels sorry might do more for Flint kids, to rectify his mistakes, than a politician with less at stake. Even if he didn’t care and wasn’t sorry, he knew that the balance of his political career would be judged by his response to this crisis.
