And how long do you suppose we will have to watch and wait before the Busy Shovelers get down to that particular layer of excrement?
...not to mention how much diggin' we'll get to do.
(Don't volunteer for much but I'd go for some of that duty. Got a big Getback List.)
Mayor Butt-gag calls for an “American Spring”. Like the Arab Spring. Overthrow of the government. He’ll deny he was calling for the overthrow of the United States government, but that’s what he meant. Doing it for the children, you know.
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Buttigieg calls for ‘a new American spring’ in campaign launch
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., on Sunday officially launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, calling for a “new American spring.”
“You and I have the chance to usher in a new American spring,” he told a crowd of supporters at a rally in South Bend. “So with hope in our hearts and with fire in our bellies, let’s get to work and let’s make history.”
Buttigieg, 37, made the announcement almost three months after launching an exploratory committee.
“My name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete,” he said. “I am a proud son of South Bend, Indiana, and I am running for president of the United States.”
Buttigieg was introduced Sunday by several mayors, including Austin’s Steve Adler, who called Buttigieg a “mayor’s mayor” and “a mayor among mayors.”
“I am standing here today with other mayors because we know something that this country needs to know, and we are in a unique position to know it. We can answer the question that many in America are asking. Yes, America, Mayor Pete is really that special,” Adler said.
The Afghanistan veteran in recent months has seen his poll numbers climb and his campaign raised more than $7 million in the first quarter of 2019, emerging as a serious candidate in the presidential race.
Buttigieg has placed third in recent polls in both Iowa and New Hampshire, which will host the two earliest major presidential nominating contests in 2020.
The mayor has also seen his favorability ratings increase by more than 30 points since February, according to a recent poll.
Buttigieg said his campaign will center around three main principles: freedom, security and democracy.
Buttigieg, who is gay, said “you are certainly not free if a county clerk” gets to determine whether you can get married. He added that “you’re not free if your reproductive health choices are dictated by male politicians.”
The South Bend mayor took a shot at President Trump when he shifted to “security,” saying that there is “a lot more to security than putting up a wall from sea to shining sea,” a reference to Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the southern border. Buttigieg also said the U.S. “should have nothing to fear from children fleeing violence.”
“I’m here today to tell a different story than ‘Make America Great Again,’” he said, without naming Trump. “I do believe in American greatness. I believe in American values.”