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  • Pete Buttigieg Provincetown campaign stop ignites LGBTQ voters: 'It's history in the making'

    07/06/2019 4:22:01 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 60 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | 06 July 2019 | Beth Greenfield
    PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Presidential hopeful and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg — who has made history as the first openly gay presidential candidate — hosted a town hall-style meeting and attended a private fundraiser in Provincetown, Mass., known as one of the gayest ZIP codes in America. And the importance of the moment was not lost on the many LGBTQ fans who showed up to give him a hero’s welcome. “In my lifetime — as someone in his 50s who came out at 18 — I never thought I’d see a viable, openly gay presidential candidate,” Jay Coburn, who...
  • Pete Buttigieg's knee-jerk compulsion to scold Christians pops up again at second debate

    06/28/2019 8:12:20 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/28/2019 | Monica Showalter
    If you ask me to pick a winner at the Democratic debate on night two in Miami, I would have said Pete Buttigieg.  He came off as reasonable, clear-thinking, pithy, and pleasant.  He respected time limits.  I didn't agree with him on anything, but he gave a sense of coming from rational grounding.  Maybe his leftie ideas could be tempered with real-world realities.  Maybe he could be persuaded... But then, then, then, then...he couldn't stop himself.  The transcript: We have to talk about one other thing, the Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion. Now, our party doesn't talk about that as much, largely for...
  • Buttigieg town hall devolves into shouting amid anger [TR]

    06/23/2019 6:33:22 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 44 replies
    FOX NEWS ^ | 23 JUNE 2019 | SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN
    A town hall featuring South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg devolved into chaos Sunday as the city struggled to respond to a deadly police-involved shooting last week. In his opening remarks, the 37-year-old Buttigieg, a Democrat and candidate for president, said he would send a letter to the Justice Department requesting that its civil rights division look into the June 16 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was black. The mayor added that he would notify the local prosecutor that he'd like an independent investigator appointed.
  • Buttigieg says he won’t be the first gay president if elected

    06/16/2019 9:41:05 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 99 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 16, 2019 | 9:02pm | Chris Perez
    Mayor Pete Buttigieg doesn’t believe he’ll be the first gay president if elected in 2020. “I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” he told “Axios on HBO.” “I mean, statistically, it’s almost certain.” Asked if he possibly knew which commander-in-chief was playing for the other team, the Democratic hopeful said: “My gaydar even doesn’t work that well in the present, let alone retroactively. But one can only assume that’s the case.”
  • Buttigieg doubles down on scrapping Electoral College: 'It's undemocratic'

    06/13/2019 6:45:25 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 105 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/13/19 | Rachel Frazin
    Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg doubled down on his support for getting rid of the Electoral College in an interview that aired Thursday on NBC News, calling the institution "undemocratic." "Twice in my young lifetime I've seen the American people overruled by the Electoral College," Buttigieg said. "It's time for that to go because it's undemocratic." Pressed by NBC's Harry Smith on whether Republicans would back scrapping the institution, Buttigieg suggested making the reform years down the road. "So maybe when we make this reform, we set it to take effect in the 2030s, when...
  • Buttigieg: So many Democrats running for president ‘we might as well carpool’

    06/09/2019 6:24:50 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 55 replies
    KPAX-TV ^ | June 9, 2019 | CNN News
    South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said on Saturday that there were so many Democrats in the race, they “might as well carpool.” Buttigieg was speaking at an education-focused meet-and-greet on the back porch of a home in Des Moines, Iowa, as he and much of the nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates swarmed the state, whose caucuses top the 2020 primary calendar. Buttigieg offered a unifying tone at the event, saying he did not view the massive field “as having opponents so much as competitors.” “You would be surprised how often we are in dialogue with each other,” Buttigieg...
  • Buttigieg says Trump slandering troops by mulling pardons for those accused of war crimes

    05/26/2019 10:05:44 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 87 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | May 26, 2019 | Adam Shaw
    Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, in an interview that aired Sunday, said President Trump had slandered American troops by considering pardoning servicemen accused of war crimes -- and said the proposal threatened to undermine the country’s “legal and moral” foundations. “When you serve, you are agreeing to serve the Constitution and uphold the law and, frankly, his idea that being sent to fight makes you automatically into some kind of war criminal is a slander against veterans that could come only from somebody who never served,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor said on ABC News’ “This Week.” Buttigieg, an...
  • Buttigieg takes on Trump, pitches four new tax hikes in Fox News Town Hall

    05/19/2019 6:46:59 PM PDT · by Innovative · 97 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 19, 2019 | Gregg Re
    Insurgent Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg acknowledged at the Fox News town hall in Claremont, New Hampshire Sunday evening that he needs to do more to appeal to "black and brown" voters, even as he confidently parried a series of policy questions -- and, on several occasions, went directly after President Trump. Buttigieg argued that minority voters are "skeptical of people who seem to come out of nowhere," after moderator Chris Wallace noted that he was polling at one-percent support among nonwhite primary voters according to a recent Fox News poll. On fiscal policy, Buttigieg pushed for four distinct tax...
  • Buttigieg seeks to reclaim American values for Democrats

    05/18/2019 4:50:30 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 64 replies
    The Gazette ^ | 5/18/19 | James Q. Lynch
    “So whatever we do now will decide not just what the next four years looks like, but what like but the next 40 years will look like,” Buttigieg told more than 500 people at the Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon. “That’s why we’ve just not got to win an election, but win the era for our values.” Republicans have made claims on those values and Buttigieg is reclaiming them, said Sarah Prineas, who introduced him. Buttigieg “doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the giant, orange elephant in the room,” she said. “He is a uniter. He makes us feel...
  • Pete Buttigieg says Pence is advancing 'homophobic policies'

    05/17/2019 3:31:16 PM PDT · by madprof98 · 62 replies
    NBC "News" ^ | 5/17/19 | Josh Lederman
    CHICAGO — Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg on Friday accused Vice President Mike Pence of advancing “homophobic policies,” saying that while he doesn’t know whether Pence is truly homophobic, his policies are “hurting other people” just the same. “I don’t know what’s in his heart,” Buttigieg told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview airing Friday. But, he added, “if you’re in public office and you advance homophobic policies, on some level it doesn’t matter whether you do that out of political calculation or whether you do it out of sincere belief.” “The problem is, it’s hurting other people,”...
  • ‘He’s white, male and gay’: Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters

    05/15/2019 8:17:45 AM PDT · by C19fan · 48 replies
    Politico ^ | May 15, 2019 | Daniel Strauss and Elena Schneider
    Joe Darby, a prominent pastor in Charleston, S.C., was discussing the Democratic presidential field with fellow clergymen when Pete Buttigieg’s name came up. A fellow pastor quickly interjected. “Isn’t that the dude who kissed his husband on TV?” the person asked skeptically, according to Darby. The exchange highlights a major obstacle for Buttigieg, who’s vaulted into the top tier of Democratic candidates without gaining traction among African Americans, according to recent surveys of national and South Carolina Democrats. But as the mayor of South Bend, Ind., devotes more effort to campaigning for black votes in the South and elsewhere, he...
  • Pete Buttigieg Confronts Race and Identity in Speech to Gay Group

    05/12/2019 7:39:03 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 32 replies
    New York Times ^ | May 12, 2019 | Jeremy W. Peters
    LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Saturday directly confronted one of his biggest vulnerabilities as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination: running as a white man who has led a life of relative privilege at a time when many in his party are eager for a woman or a minority candidate to become their next leader. Speaking at a fund-raiser for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes, Mr. Buttigieg drew on his own experiences as a gay man in a predominantly straight society. But he also rejected the idea that “there are equivalencies”...
  • Buttigieg takes shot at social conservatives, describes coming out during Vegas LGBTQ gala

    05/12/2019 4:36:47 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 46 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/12/19 | Louis Casiano
    The South Bend, Ind., mayor also spoke of the need to overcome divisions during a swing stop at a gala for an LGBTQ civil rights group. He said that LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, people of color and with disabilities and workers are experiencing a “crisis of belonging in this country.” "What every gay person has in common with every excluded person of any kind is knowing what it's like to see a wall between you and the rest of the world and wonder what it's like on the other side," Buttigieg said during his keynote address for the Human Rights...
  • Buttigieg sells out fundraiser at iconic West Hollywood gay bar

    05/10/2019 10:30:00 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 71 replies
    NBC "News" ^ | May 10, 2019 | By Gwen Aviles (D-NBC)
    Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg drew a sold-out crowd to a fundraiser at an iconic West Hollywood gay bar on Thursday. Attendees at The Abbey each paid about $25 to attend the grassroots event for Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was introduced by his husband, Chasten. “If anybody tells you whether they’re not sure if America is capable in these twisted and dark times of delivering or vindicating our hopes,” Buttigieg told the crowd, “tell them you saw at The Abbey in West Hollywood the top tier presidential candidate on his way to the White House, moments after...
  • Mayor Pete says God would NEVER be a Republican like Trump as he reveals [tr]

    05/07/2019 7:46:12 AM PDT · by C19fan · 101 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 7, 2019 | David Martosko
    Pete Buttigieg said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he and his husband Chasten want to be fathers one day – but 'maybe' he'll have to finish his historic run for president first. And he told a 'Today' show audience that he plans to keep emphasizing his religious faith in the face of hecklers who berate him for being a gay Christian. The 37-year-old Democrat takes the almighty seriously, and claimed that while God isn't likely a partisan, he would never be a Republican in the mold of Donald Trump. He said it's 'important that we stop seeing religion used...
  • Buttigieg, husband attend Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class

    05/05/2019 11:18:27 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 65 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 5, 2019 | Jay Reeves
    Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) and his husband, Chasten Glezman, joined the large crowd at former President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class in rural South Georgia. At Carter’s invitation Buttigieg stood and read from the Bible as part of the lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. “You know him?” Carter had said earlier in reference to Buttigieg, drawing a laugh from the crowd. Carter told the audience that two other Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, had previously attended his classes. Scores of people arrived before dawn for a chance...
  • PETE BUTTIGIEG, BETO O'ROURKE RESPOND AFTER PROTESTERS HURL ANTI-GAY SLURS . . .

    05/04/2019 7:28:03 AM PDT · by madprof98 · 62 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 5/4/19 | Gillian Edevane
    Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg did his best Friday night to ignore a small but vocal group of protesters who yelled anti-gay slurs and told him to "repent" during a speech in Dallas, Texas. Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was speaking at an event for the Dallas County Democratic Party when he was interrupted several times by a handful of protesters who hurled, among other anti-gay remarks, "marriage is between a man and a woman" and "what about the babies?" Part of the interruption was caught on video by CNN reporter DJ Judd. Rather than confront the...
  • This Fawning NBC News Article on Pete Buttigieg is Worse Than a Glorified Press Release....

    04/29/2019 5:06:16 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 27 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 29 Apr 2019 | Caleb Howe
    Data geek Mayor Pete is a leader. He is data-driven. Really smart. He’s brash. And dynamic. Bold. Has the best education in the world. He has fancy degrees, but the confidence to govern with heart, and the brain to govern with data. It may seem like that is an exaggerated description, but all of that is taken from this single NBC News article about 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg. And those are just the words in isolation, they can’t really convey the depth of the hagiography posted as news by NBC on this candidate. It would be passé, even quaint,...
  • Media Darling Buttigieg Accused of Sexual Assault

    04/29/2019 10:44:10 AM PDT · by TexasGurl24 · 217 replies
    BigLeaguePolitics ^ | 04-29-2019 | Peter D'Abrosca
    The mayor of South Bend, Indiana and an upstart 2020 presidential candidate has been accused of sexual assault. “My name is Hunter Kelly. I am 21 years old. This is by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do. For the past three nights, I have not slept even a single hour. I have vomited eight times,” Kelly said in a Medium blog post.
  • Pete Buttigieg says impeaching Donald Trump is the only way to get Republicans to abandon [tr]

    04/23/2019 7:36:31 AM PDT · by C19fan · 95 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 23, 2019 | Katelyn Caralle
    Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg said Republicans made a 'deal with the devil' in working with President Donald Trump, and the only way to end that deal is impeaching the president. During a CNN town hall Monday night, the South Bend, Indiana mayor doubled down on his calls for Trump's impeachment. 'I think he's made it pretty clear he deserves impeachment,' Buttigieg said during the town hall. 'I'm also going to leave it to the House and Senate to figure that out, because my role in the process is to try and relegate Trumpism to the dustbin of history. There's...