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Buttigieg's star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts toward him
ABC News ^ | 11/14/2021 | HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press

Posted on 11/14/2021 6:21:38 AM PST by Scarlett156

WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact — the promise of more electric cars, intercity train routes, bigger airports — when a pointed question came.

How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure?

The 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate laid out his argument that highway design can reflect racism, noting that at least $1 billion in the bill will help reconnect cities and neighborhoods that had been racially segregated or divided by road projects.

“I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a Black neighborhood ... that obviously reflects racism,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; corruption; infrastructure; transportation
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More good news!

There are lots of good quotes in this: "Nina Smith, Buttigieg’s former traveling campaign press secretary, said as Biden's top lieutenant on the bill, Buttigieg has the opportunity to lead an effort to “eradicate past injustices.""

Because that's what transportation is all about!

1 posted on 11/14/2021 6:21:38 AM PST by Scarlett156
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To: Scarlett156

So the assclown from south bend over is moving forward eh?


2 posted on 11/14/2021 6:23:22 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Don’t get me started about that....guy. I’ll get banned.


3 posted on 11/14/2021 6:24:58 AM PST by Scarlett156 (11/11/2021 Thank you, veterans! )
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ROTFLMAO!!!

Goebels would be impressed by today’s liberal media. Germany could have won the war with them.


4 posted on 11/14/2021 6:27:36 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Scarlett156

The fakebook and tweety police are already on the look out for you. LOL! I didn’t even get dinner either.


5 posted on 11/14/2021 6:27:51 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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This acclaim is a bit much for a man who hasn’t yet mastered breast feeding.


6 posted on 11/14/2021 6:27:59 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Scarlett156

Purse strings? Are they making a vieled dig or what.


7 posted on 11/14/2021 6:29:05 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Scarlett156

He’ll be the D nominee in 2024.
Losing to DeSantis in Nov.


8 posted on 11/14/2021 6:30:12 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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! trillion in infrastructure spending? Someone has to tell him he has to come off maternity leave before he starts pissing it away.


9 posted on 11/14/2021 6:30:24 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Scarlett156

Hell....give them Uber passes to pick up the baby food while they’re on family leave.


10 posted on 11/14/2021 6:31:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Person 1) “Supply chain problems? Hey, whoever is in charge of that stuff is totally incompetent!”
Person 2) “Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be that guy! Hey, have you heard about Pete Buttigieg?”
Person 1) “I sure have! He’s a rising star!!”


11 posted on 11/14/2021 6:31:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure?

So, it's not really about infrastructure. It's more about racial equity.

When you start out with the wrong premise, you end up with failure.

It's really a reparations bill disguised as infrastructure.

Who's going to get the most benefits? Likely, not Americans in general.
12 posted on 11/14/2021 6:33:09 AM PST by adorno
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So Pete...where are all these workers coming from to spend the 2 trillion dollars worth of work?


13 posted on 11/14/2021 6:33:35 AM PST by Mashood
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Hmmm. Are they rehabilitating him and Kamala because of sagging poll numbers. OR are they getting ready (after Joe’s mysterious “soon” physical) to “25” him? So Kamala takes over and appoints Buttigeg her VP. Something is in the air, that’s for sure.


14 posted on 11/14/2021 6:34:27 AM PST by Toespi ( )
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Who's going to get the most benefits?

Dem controlled states and union projects.

15 posted on 11/14/2021 6:34:36 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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“I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a Black neighborhood ... that obviously reflects racism,” he said.

Is that a long term delusion for Pete, or just his hormones kicking up during his maternity leave?

16 posted on 11/14/2021 6:34:51 AM PST by Bernard (If a school can offer varsity sports, it should also offer varsity (honors) academics.)
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Somehow I knew the source of this crap would be one of the failing channels.

Poor Walt Disney


17 posted on 11/14/2021 6:35:03 AM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: All

😂😎


18 posted on 11/14/2021 6:36:22 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Scarlett156

They’re trying to groom this nobody with no resume as a future Presidential candidate. And this country is so screwed up they may succeed.


19 posted on 11/14/2021 6:37:02 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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First Buttplug will get his hair and nails done and then it’s PARTY TIME


20 posted on 11/14/2021 6:37:21 AM PST by butlerweave
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