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Buttigieg’s Untenable Vow of Silence (about McKinsey consulting work)
New York Times ^ | December 5, 2019

Posted on 12/06/2019 4:35:40 AM PST by karpov

Pete Buttigieg worked nearly three years for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and he has presented that experience as a kind of capitalist credential — distinguishing him from some rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, and inoculating him against Republican attacks.

“They’ll try the socialist thing,” Mr. Buttigieg told an Iowa audience in September, referring to a likely line of attack by President Trump and his allies against whichever Democrat emerges as his opponent in next year’s election, “but the thing is, I got started in the private sector.”

The thing is, Mr. Buttigieg has said precious little about his time at McKinsey. He has not named the clients for whom he worked, nor said much about what he did. He says his lips are sealed by a nondisclosure agreement he signed when he left the firm in 2010 and that he has asked the company to release him from the agreement. It has not yet agreed to do so.

This is not a tenable situation. Mr. Buttigieg owes voters a more complete account of his time at the company. Voters seeking an alternative to Mr. Trump should demand that candidates not only reject Mr. Trump’s positions, but also his behavior — including his refusal to share information about his health and his business dealings. This standard requires Mr. Buttigieg to talk about his time at McKinsey. It similarly requires Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders to stop dragging their feet and release their health records to the public.

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The McKinsey experience also looms large because Mr. Buttigieg is running on a short résumé. Those three years account for fully 20 percent of his post-college career.

And working at McKinsey is not quite the résumé booster it used to be.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; mckinsey
The Times later cites its article How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments.
1 posted on 12/06/2019 4:35:40 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

He is not a capitalist. He is a globalist who are really happy to have a cozy relationship with socialists and fascists. It’s actual freedom loving constitutionalist free market capitalists that his crowd cannot abide.


2 posted on 12/06/2019 4:41:37 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Already being asked by other democrat candidates. He will be asked next debate.


3 posted on 12/06/2019 4:48:31 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: karpov

he’s mentally defective (faggot) why does his work experience even matter? He’s already disqualified.


4 posted on 12/06/2019 5:12:26 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: karpov

i guessing that The Slimes is seeking additional avenues to try to attack President Trump by exhorting his opponents to be more transparent so that they can then better attack Trump by claiming that he isn’t transparent enough ...


5 posted on 12/06/2019 5:14:36 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: napscoordinator
This standard...similarly requires Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders to stop dragging their feet and release their health records to the public.

A glaring precedence in this nondisclosure protocol is that William Clinton never released his medical records; the records that revealed he had had mumps at the age of fourteen and it left him sterile..

6 posted on 12/06/2019 5:50:40 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: karpov

When McKinsey consultants walk into the company you work for, there are two obvious questions:

1) How many jobs will be eliminated or outsourced?
2) Will I be one of the cuts?

Likely Mayor Pete participated in consulting projects resulting in the elimination of thousands of American jobs and possibly the outsourcing of American jobs to other nations.

He may have also worked on projects for corrupt foreign governments.

It is amusing to see the New York Times demanding Mayor Pete open up his life for scrutiny when the same paper had no interest in Barack Obama’s life.


7 posted on 12/06/2019 5:55:16 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: karpov

My niece worked for McKinsey for a year, then left. She said she was disturbed how many globalist initiatives that later appeared in the halls of Congress, in the U.N. or in street demonstrations were being concocted in those v very offices. She said she would not be surprised if the “Greta Thunberg” movement was a McKinsey creation, following a PowerPoint demo and funding. Pretty scary stuff.


8 posted on 12/06/2019 5:57:08 AM PST by montag813
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To: Thommas

Wow. That’s telling!


9 posted on 12/06/2019 7:41:00 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: karpov

Any dirt about Buttigieg’s father?


10 posted on 12/06/2019 4:00:28 PM PST by gasport (The dung beetle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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