Posted on 08/31/2019 9:55:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pete Buttigieg has tapped into the New York fundraising scene better than any other 2020 Democratic candidate — and he’ll be back this Labor Day weekend to rake in more big bucks.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor already brought in $3.7 million from New York state — including $2.9 million just from New York City, according to donor data provided by the Center for Public Integrity and analyzed by The Post.
He bests all other Democratic White House hopefuls in the Big Apple — by a landslide — including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who raised $885,000 in New York with $658,000 coming from NYC; New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who brought in $2.3 million statewide with $1.6 million from NYC residents before dropping out Wednesday; and former Vice President Joe Biden ($2.5 million/$1.6 million from NYC), who has the powerful endorsement of New York’s well-connected Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Buttigieg took on Gotham thanks to early strong support from the LGBTQ community, high-profile media appearances, staff with NYC ties and enthusiasm in the acting world.
He’s already had more than 15 events in New York, ranging from a high-dollar fundraiser hosted by Broadway executive Jordan Roth and his husband Richie Jackson April 18 in the West Village to a $25 grassroots event at Brooklyn Bowl on April 15.
“The early core has been the LGBTQ community,” said former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, president of the Victory Fund, a LGBTQ bundling group that endorsed Buttigieg at a Brooklyn event earlier this year. “I think we were a very key constituency in allowing him to get early traction.”
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Buttplug has no chance whatsoever. He will never get the black vote.
Cue techno music with multi-colored rainbow drinks served by shirtless guys in their early 20s.
I think Mayor Pete’s agenda is simply to get a cabinet post...Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of Labor (neither is a job that he’s really qualified for). He may be hoping that Warren wins the nomination, and that she might consider him as a VP possibility.
You are correct....for black voters, he’s a big zero.
Don’t know why, but fags always seem to have lots of money.
“Buttplug has no chance whatsoever. He will never get the black vote”
That is why I want him a President Trump’s opponent in 2020
Mayor Pete has a fatal problem.
The Mexicans and Blacks will never turn out for a white gay man, not in the numbers needed to win national elections.
Not going to happen.
I think we should all send him money, (once the freepathon is done*..)
“Don’t know why, but fags always seem to have lots of money.”
Because many are very good at what they do.
Que Freddy Mercury
queue
...or Elton John or Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.
Mean Little Pete has virtually zero support from blacks. He will also not get the evangelical vote.
NY nmoney, thrown away on a nobody LOL!
The main reason is because most of them have disposable income. Most are (officially) single and without children.
Even those who “get married” tend to do this after they have worked as an adult for a couple of years. That is but one reason some entertainment industries like Disney cater to them so much.
Excellent point—but will it come to fruition and are you sure they will not change their mind in hatred for the president?
Lots of money because:
1. In the major metropolitan centers, a lot of them work in industries that have a lot of money flowing through them (i.e., banking, fashion, entertainment, education, law, etc.) and salaries are good (and even better).
2. The concentration creates a synergy that reinforces group identity and the promotion of identity politics.
3. They are willing (and let’s not be subtle here) to flood the Democratic Party and its candidates with money and other assistances to promote the LGBTQ agenda.
4. They also relentlessly promote “equality,” “tolerance,” and “education” in the courts and schools to establish a web of laws to confound those who reject them and their lifestyle and the propagandize the rising generations of public school students to docilely accept the mental shackles they are being fitted with.
That Buttigieg out raised all other Dem 2020 candidates in NYC is hardly surprising. He will probably do as well in any other big city with a significant LGBTQ population.
That’s good, because money in his coffers isn’t helping the other Dem 2020 candidates. Buttigieg’s fund raising is unlikely to translate into wins in the primaries for reasons others have stated. But, as long as he stays in, the continuing likelihood of a LGBTQ candidate on the ticket will probably depress general giving to the DNC. A poorly funded DNC effort might, and this is a mighty iffy might, impede DNC and Democrat state party staffing up, organizing, and advertising for the general election.
Might.
One can hope that the Democrats will be driven so far to the left ideologically during the primary season that they actually are compelled to compound a ticket that is political poison in the general election. The party convention in Milwaukee (!) is going to be a spectacle of grievance mongering.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_National_Convention)
To that end, conservatives should encourage every Democrat candidate to build a powerful record of radical, ultraliberal statements and positions as they struggle during the primaries. That way the opposition research files on them will all be overflowing with juicy tidbits to be exploited when things get serious next summer.
Buttplugers Unite!
Anyone donating this heavily to Democrats is probably a straw donor for China.
Fags have a lot money. BFD.
“Free ice cream”, and I’m in!
;)
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