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Mayor Pete and the Order of the Kong: How Buttigieg’s Harvard pals helped spur his rise in politics
Boston Globe ^ | 5/18/19 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 05/18/2019 6:57:03 AM PDT by madprof98

When Buttigieg . . . broke through as a candidate during a CNN town hall in March, he . . . questioned the merits of the fixation among religious conservatives with sexuality in paragraph-length answers that his friends from his Harvard years recognized immediately as quintessential, undergraduate Pete.

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Whether he’s arguing that Democrats should take back God, morality, and freedom from Republicans or that liberals too often play on conservatives’ political turf instead of articulating their own vision and values, Buttigieg’s rhetoric as a candidate sounds nearly identical to his political musings when he was at Harvard, according to interviews with more than a dozen of his former classmates.

That’s in part because Buttigieg honed these very ideas for years with a group of like-minded Harvard students he met through the Institute of Politics, or IOP, who endlessly discussed, over late-night Chinese food and beer, how the Democratic Party could make its way out of its Bush-era malaise.

The six young men sometimes jokingly referred to themselves as “The Order of the Kong,” after the Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square called The Hong Kong where they began meeting as freshmen over dumplings and scallion pancakes.

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“Whether or not it was spoken, all [of us were] oriented towards a life of service in some form or another,” said Ryan Rippel, a member of Buttigieg’s group who is now a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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One of Buttigieg’s hobbyhorses was that conservatives managed to “own” moral and religious issues, according to former classmates, while the left missed out on opportunities to reframe issues such as health care and the social safety net as moral.

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His friends said it never occurred to him at the time he might be gay.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: butthead; buttigieg; democrats; harvard; indiana; massachusetts; mikepence; petebuttigieg; southbend
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To: madprof98

This long and flattering portrait of the mayor of South Bend offers an inside glimpse of the expensively miseducated liberal elite who control our lives in the name of “service.” The swamp is full of them.

Yes the swamp is full of these elitists From Stanford and USC on the west coast to the Ivy League lawyers/thugs onow the East Coast.

They control liberal towns/counties/states from ocean to ocean.

They hate us because we stand in their way of normalizing the sick and abnormal behavior and lifestyles they live and stand up for.

Please check my tagline!


21 posted on 05/18/2019 8:09:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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To: madprof98
The six young men sometimes jokingly referred to themselves as “The Order of the Kong,” after the Chinese restaurant in Harvard Square called The Hong Kong

Yeah, right.


22 posted on 05/18/2019 8:10:46 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: Grampa Dave

Buttwipe was only elected mayor thanks to the students and faculty of “Catholic” Notre Dame University.


23 posted on 05/18/2019 8:11:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

“Buttwipe was only elected mayor thanks to the students and faculty of “Catholic” Notre Dame University.”

Thanks for the above info.


24 posted on 05/18/2019 8:13:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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To: NorthMountain

Donald Trump
Class of 1968
Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania


25 posted on 05/18/2019 8:31:25 AM PDT by RogueOne
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To: dfwgator

Notre Dame is not in South Bend, it is in Note Dame, IN, a separate entity, and residents there are not allowed to vote in South Bend elections.. Only Seniors (around 2,000) and post grad students can live off campus, and less than half of those live in South Bend itself. The same for the 1,300 faculty.


26 posted on 05/18/2019 8:49:43 AM PDT by RogueOne
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To: RogueOne

< shrug >

If you have a point, make it.

I’d gladly trade Trump for getting rid of all the Ivy League leftists in The Swamp.


27 posted on 05/18/2019 9:02:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: madprof98

re: “questioned the merits of the fixation among religious conservatives with sexuality “

Gimme a break! It’s in the Bible ...

So, that raises the question, WHAT BIBLE DOES MAYOR PETE USE?

Or, does he disavow the Bible, or parts thereof?


28 posted on 05/18/2019 9:15:11 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: RogueOne

I stand corrected, then. Still, no doubt he still has a lot of fanbois at Notre Dame.


29 posted on 05/18/2019 9:18:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Sure does. And you don’t have to live in a voting district to influence an election. Enthusiastic young supporters from the nearby college, campaign funds from well-paid profs, it all adds up. Notre Dame gave us Pete Buttigieg, and that is the truth.


30 posted on 05/18/2019 9:28:44 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: keving

I call him Mr.Fister.


31 posted on 05/18/2019 10:09:52 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: madprof98

(After Buttplug wins the presidency)

Secret service official asks, does the president have a duck in the oval office?


32 posted on 05/18/2019 10:22:48 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Spurred his rise, with spurs, and buttless chaps.

33 posted on 05/19/2019 11:07:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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