Why should the Michigan state government care about this? Flint is a bunch of liberals, and the State government is Republican. The Snyder administration will

Why should the Michigan state government care about this? Flint is a bunch of liberals, and the State government is Republican. The Snyder administration will certainly pay a heavy price for "giving free handouts" to the Democrats in Flint, all to remedy a problem that many Republicans don't believe exists. EDIT: wording