Posted on 01/23/2019 5:18:02 AM PST by jaydubya2
Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid, according to a video and email announcement obtained by The Associated Press.
... Buttigieg is a Rhodes scholar who was first elected mayor of his hometown in 2011 at age 29 — making him the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents. A lieutenant in the Navy Reserve, he served a tour in Afghanistan in 2014.
... Amid his campaign for a second term, Buttigieg came out as gay in a column in the local newspaper. He went on to win re-election with 80 percent of the vote. In 2018 — three years to the day after the column ran — he married his husband, middle school teacher Chasten Glezman.
Well, well, he’s got the check list for their platform...
I’m trying to be mature, and get past the name.
I don’t know how to say it.
Maybe he could change it for the duration of his campaign.
Give him this, he is the clear winner of buzzword/check the box bingo!
Dem
Liberal
Vet
Gay
“Married” gay
Young
For the Dems what’s not to like? This should be fun as they all race to get so far to the left they might end up on the right?
Why, are you worried he could be the butt of crude jokes?
I’m Block Captain of Cut and Shoot, TX, population 1290 people. This makes me eminently qualified to be President so I am announcing I plan to start an exploratory committee. We, me and my dog (chairman of the committee) will be hanging out at The Gas Station / Taco Stand / laundromat / lottery retailer / Post Office downtown (well you know at the stop sign in town) to discuss my platform and drink beer. Come on by to talk but bring your own beer, I’m not like the Democrats who pay for votes.
Hey, Buttwipe, we already had our first gay president!
You are correct. Gay Catholics are only prolific within the Catholic church.
And there seems no limit as to their numbers.
What a perverted situation.
Talk about egos? Who/what is this guy? If he wins, I will literally eat my hat.
99.9% of these wannabes will fall by the wayside almost immediately when there is no money flowing their way from the campaign financiers.
Imagine the democRATic primary debates though. They'll have to have them at a zoo to accommodate all of the weird and bizarre creatures who are throwing their hats in the ring.
I think your hat is safe.
Is South Park still on the air? They’ll have a field day if so. Can even LBGTBBQ voters envision “gay President Peter Buttigig?” They won’t be able to keep a straight face.
It used to be every governor and senator thought they had the right stuff to be president.
Now every mayor, Hollywood star, and rich guy - and every dirty-talking female - thinks they will be president if they announce they are available.
This is not good. It looks like over half the people in our country don't think too well.
The proof of that is that The Greatest Fraud Ever got elected to two terms.
36-year-old politician Peter Buttigieg is now married! South Bend, Indiana mayor
Buttigieg (pronounced Boot-edge-edge) married his comedian boyfriend Chasten
Glezman this past weekend. 6-20-2018
Pronounced “Butt itches”?
(which is entirely understandable given the strange things he pushes up there)
Boot-edge-edge? Does his family pronounce the name that way, lol? Sounds a little strained. Makes me think of an old coworker, Pakistani, his surname was Butt. He’d get so irate whenever anyone pronounced it in the obvious manner. His accent would suddenly get very strong and he’d yell “Is BOOT dahmeet BOOT”
Nope, not the Onion but true. His announcement was reported with film on WNDU Channel 16 TV in South Bend, Indiana, yesterday evening. I watched it. My immediate reaction: Publicity seeker with -Zero chance, which was close to the actual temperature in South Bend yesterday.
Lol!
The Obama’s wink
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