Unofficial campaign advisers to Hillary Clinton wanted to use a chemical safety bill passed in early 2016 and tie it to Flint, Michigan, where water was tainted with lead.

The two issues are not related, but the Clinton supporters were giddy to use the issues as one to capitalize on the Flint water crisis and hammer Republicans in the process.

“Hitting House R’s for making it easier for Monsanto to get away w/ poisoning people with PCB’s may resonate after what happened in Flint.”

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“You guys are probably all over this, but hitting House R’s for making it easier for Monsanto to get away w/ poisoning people with PCB’s may resonate after what happened in Flint,” wrote Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank founded by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

PCBs were manufactured by Monsanto and still plague many rural and suburban areas. But Clinton has strong ties to the agribusiness giant.

The email chain was part of a fourth email dump of Podesta’s emails by Wikileaks on Wednesday.

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Tanden was referring to a Feb. 29 story in The New York Times, which said Congress acted to update unworkable chemical regulation rules.

“The House and the Senate last year both passed versions of legislation to replace the 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act, a law that the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged had become so unworkable that as many as 1,000 hazardous chemicals still on sale today needed to be evaluated to see if they should be banned or restricted,” The Times wrote.

Inside that bill was a paragraph protecting Monsanto from legal claims related to PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls. PCBs are banned but were widely used in manufacturing as recently as the 1970s.

That issue has nothing to do with Flint, Michigan, whose finances in the Democratic-run city were so poorly managed that the state took over from 2011 to 2015. The state managers opted for river water over more expensive lake water, but did not know that city pipes in the river were leaching lead. The issue was discovered in 2015.

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But despite the two issues not being connected, longtime Democratic official Ron Klain thought Tanden’s advice to Podesta and Jake Sullivan was “great.”

The water issue was soon taken up by Clinton and her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. One of the Democratic primary debates was later held at Flint on March 6.

But Clinton focused mostly on calling for Gov. Rick Snyder, the Michigan Republican, to resign — in tweets on the Flint issues.

At the March 6 debate, she remained mum on Monsanto. That’s likely because Clinton represented Monsanto when she worked at the Rose Law Firm and because the Democratic nominee has agribusiness advisers who worked for Monsanto.