let's move on to the subject of water
now whether it's Slynt detroit public
schools line five of the Mackinac
Straits the Nestle deal or the increased
alarm over what we're hearing about pea
Foss Michiganders have been boiling mad
about water of the many water issues in
the state viewers and commenters on our
social media sites are most upset here
recently about Nestle's 200 a year D
$200 a year deal to bottle Michigan
water what would you do about it and
more generally which of you will be the
better custodian for Michigan's most
precious natural resource
mr. Attorney General we'll start with
you you know stewardship of our Great
Lakes is something that's etched in our
DNA
whether you like fishing as I do you
want to walk along the Lake Michigan
Beach and see a sunset or they'll watch
the Sun Rise on Lake Huron we have this
responsibility and that's why I'm
opposed to any diversion of Great Lakes
water
that's why support the ballast discharge
rules we have in Michigan that are
tougher than federal standards and with
respect to Flint I'm the only person
here on this stage the made sure we
provided justice for families of Flint
because I know families in Flint right
now that only drink water from a plastic
bottle and only wash vegetables from
water with the plastic bottle and I made
sure there's an independent
investigation in Flint water crisis is
about accountability and it's about
justice for families of Flint now
senator Whitmer has done nothing about
the environment and her 14 years in the
legislature only passed three bills and
has done nothing in her economic
programs would shut down our economy
providing less resources to help us with
the environment and make sure we keep
our beaches clean and that is that I'm
Senator Whitmer well my opponent is
confusing recreation with a fundamental
right to clean drinking water I think
about the families in Flint every time I
turn on my tab but the scary truth is
that the state that is home to 21
percent of the world's freshwater has
dozens of communities that have high
lead in their water right now coming out
of their tap and dozens more that have
PFS that is leaching into our drinking
water the fact of the matter is we need
to create a Department of the Great
Lakes and fresh water that
tasked with overseeing the stewardship
of this resource that is all of ours the
drinking water Ombudsman at the cabinet
level is something that I am committed
to because when their problems arise we
need to take action we need to shut down
corporate threats to our water we need
to hold polluters accountable and get to
work cleaning up the drinking water in
the state of Michigan it is appalling
the state of the state of water and the
state of the lack of safety in our water
and our Attorney General hasn't done
anything and that is time Attorney
General shooter you have 30 seconds for
a rebuttal and I want to remind you that
we do want to know what you would do
about Nestle you know the situation in
Flint is such that you know pastors feel
their gut blunt gut punched by the state
and Gretchen Whitmer has done nothing in
terms of environmental policy in her 14
years in the legislature the only bill
she passed concerning water was
something about regulating swimming
pools that doesn't help families in
Flint and with respect to Nestle all
these issues need be done on solid
science is the 21st century we can have
economic development and we can have
water that is produced at Nestle senator
Whitmer well that's exactly the kind of
gobbledygook answer that people are so
tired of when it comes to Nestle I don't
believe that they should be taking the
water out of our ground and selling it
and I want to stop that I also want to
get the oil out of the Great Lakes I'm
gonna get to work
suing on behalf of communities that have
PIPA
governor Snyder asked the Attorney
General to initiate that suit last July
he still has done nothing just like he
didn't step up and answer calls from
people for Flint for two years while
their kids were brushing their teeth
with leaded water we got to move on to
the next question I'm afraid if you want
to come back to that on on your own on
your own time you'll have to do that
later well