Remember this name Pete Buttigieg - South Bend, IN Mayor - Black problem? Corporatist??
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JoogJoint
In my own league.
It's not difficult to do because Beto is lacking a platform. Actually he doesn't have one at all and he doesn't even know why he's running for president.
Because a lot of very rich people think they can make him the white Obama.
Buttigieg is going to pull a Beto on Biden 
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
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His time at Harvard really bothered me. Dismissing protesters who wanted workers to get better wages. No mention of the homelessness at Harvard. Wanting to goto war and being upset others weren’t.
And he worked at McKinsey.
His time at Harvard really bothered me. Dismissing protesters who wanted workers to get better wages. No mention of the homelessness at Harvard. Wanting to goto war and being upset others weren’t.
And he worked at McKinsey.
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he demoted the 1st black police chief in his city's history for recording evidence against racist officers then turned him in on federal wiretapping laws to make it look like a scandal (which was tossed by federal judges) 
Former Police Chief Darryl Boykins files discrimination complaint with EEOC
South Bend police wiretapping dispute continues
Former Police Chief Darryl Boykins files discrimination complaint with EEOC
South Bend police wiretapping dispute continues
All About Pete | Current Affairs
His time at Harvard really bothered me. Dismissing protesters who wanted workers to get better wages. No mention of the homelessness at Harvard. Wanting to goto war and being upset others weren’t.
And he worked at McKinsey.
he demoted the 1st black police chief in his city's history for recording evidence against racist officers then turned him in on federal wiretapping laws to make it look like a scandal (which was tossed by federal judges)
Former Police Chief Darryl Boykins files discrimination complaint with EEOC
South Bend police wiretapping dispute continues
Grand opening...grand closing, not enough Batty Bucks in the world to turn this one around
JoogJoint
In my own league.
All About Pete | Current Affairs
His time at Harvard really bothered me. Dismissing protesters who wanted workers to get better wages. No mention of the homelessness at Harvard. Wanting to goto war and being upset others weren’t.
And he worked at McKinsey.
he demoted the 1st black police chief in his city's history for recording evidence against racist officers then turned him in on federal wiretapping laws to make it look like a scandal (which was tossed by federal judges)
Former Police Chief Darryl Boykins files discrimination complaint with EEOC
South Bend police wiretapping dispute continues
Damn, it sounds like he's the gay White Male version of Harris.
thatrapsfan
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@GnauzBookOfRhymes damn props on this call. Its played out as you predicted.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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Pitfalls0117
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In Coli speak... This guy is such a fukking plantAll About Pete | Current Affairs
His time at Harvard really bothered me. Dismissing protesters who wanted workers to get better wages. No mention of the homelessness at Harvard. Wanting to goto war and being upset others weren’t.
And he worked at McKinsey.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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the pushback on the race/police issues begins tomorrow...
he's going to deliver a big fancy speech sometime within the next week to try and win over the black community...will touch on commonalities between urban/rural areas (poverty etc)....will talk about how being gay was so difficult and alienating, how he's not trying to draw a direct comparison with being black (which is exactly what he's actually doing). all dems will be forced/shamed into praising his openness/vulnerability blah blah and how we know his heart etc...black people being as forgiving as we are, he won't be severely punished but he will be chastened. usually the youth would be really driving this, but all of his gay allies will be working overtime to try and shame anyone who seems like they're going too hard
media will be all over it...they're going to call it his "Obama Jeremiah Wright moment"....literally they will draw that same connection....partly as a way to try and blunt any criticism...obama and 'em might even come out to give him a hand from afar (tweets and shyt)
he's going to deliver a big fancy speech sometime within the next week to try and win over the black community...will touch on commonalities between urban/rural areas (poverty etc)....will talk about how being gay was so difficult and alienating, how he's not trying to draw a direct comparison with being black (which is exactly what he's actually doing). all dems will be forced/shamed into praising his openness/vulnerability blah blah and how we know his heart etc...black people being as forgiving as we are, he won't be severely punished but he will be chastened. usually the youth would be really driving this, but all of his gay allies will be working overtime to try and shame anyone who seems like they're going too hard
media will be all over it...they're going to call it his "Obama Jeremiah Wright moment"....literally they will draw that same connection....partly as a way to try and blunt any criticism...obama and 'em might even come out to give him a hand from afar (tweets and shyt)
JoogJoint
In my own league.
Pete doesn't believe in policy specifics, he believes in "philosophy."
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JoogJoint
In my own league.
He's on that
apparently. This was only 4 years ago. Let's see how he addresses this in 2019...
Rising Dem star Pete Buttigieg said 'all lives matter' in 2015, putting his record on race in focus
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Rising Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg said ‘all lives matter’ in 2015, putting his record on race in the spotlight
PUBLISHED WED, APR 3 2019 • 11:26 AM EDT UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Tucker Higgins@TUCKERHIGGINS
KEY POINTS
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 presidential candidate, pauses during the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg in 2015 addressed two local police controversies in South Bend, Indiana, by saying in an official speech that “all lives matter,” a comment that could land him in hot water with his party’s increasingly energized progressive base.
It could also bring new attention to his record on race as the city’s mayor. Activists say that the phrase “all lives matter” misses the point of the Black Lives Matter movement or dismisses it.
Buttigieg was apparently referencing his administration’s refusal to hand over tape recordings of South Bend police officers that remain the subject of legal dispute, as well as the city council’s request that a local police officer stop selling t-shirts that seemed to make light of the 2014 police killing of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York.
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“There is no contradiction between respecting the risks that police officers take every day in order to protect this community, and recognizing the need to overcome the biases implicit in a justice system that treats people from different backgrounds differently, even when they are accused of the same offenses,” Buttigieg said at the time.
“We need to take both those things seriously, for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter,” he said.
The comments came during Buttigieg’s “State of the City” address at a local high school in March of that year.
Buttigieg, a 37-year-old, openly gay veteran, has taken the Democratic field by storm since he launched his candidacy in late January. The liberal mayor is credited with the economic turnaround of a Midwestern city in a state that went to Trump by nearly 20 points in 2016, and where Vice President Mike Pence served as governor.
But as voters begin to make sense of where Buttigieg stands on national issues, some progressives have begun to raise concerns about his ties to the controversial global consulting outfit McKinsey & Company and what some describe as a focus, at times colored by his gender, on his perceived intelligence, rather than his beliefs and proposals.
“The Mayor’s comment was in the context of discussing racial reconciliation in his 2015 State of the City speech,” said Lis Smith, a spokesperson for Buttigieg, in a statement. “He believes black lives matter and that has been reflected in his actions as mayor of South Bend.”
Buttigieg, police and race
Some critics of Black Lives Matter use the phrase “all lives matter” as a counter slogan. Black Lives Matter activists oppose America’s disproportionate police violence against black people. When Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley said “all lives matter” in 2015 during the last presidential primary race, those comments earned fierce pushback from progressives.
Buttigieg’s comments about race and policing, as well as his record on race as mayor, could prove to be another lightning rod as voters seek out more information on Buttigieg, the only candidate polling above 1 percent without ever holding federal office.
Some local activists have for years been critical of Buttigieg’s economic policies, which they say have disproportionately benefited white residents while doing little to address a higher unemployment rate among minorities. His critics also say Buttigieg’s comments as mayor don’t always stack up against his progressive rhetoric as a presidential candidate.
“That’s four years ago, but it was not that long ago. It was not a time when ‘all lives matter’ was a smart thing to say, or reflective of someone who is concerned about black people being killed by the police,” said Nate Levin-Aspenson, a local organizer in South Bend.
“What I would say is, take a look at what he is saying now, and compare that to his record as mayor. See what you find,” Levin-Aspenson said.
Buttigieg’s comments could also put a spotlight on one of the more controversial aspects of his tenure as mayor of South Bend, involving secret recordings allegedly made of South Bend police officers at the direction of the city’s first African-American police chief, Darryl Boykins. Buttigieg demoted Boykins, who ultimately obtained a $75,000 settlement from the city after suing over what he described as Buttigieg’s “racial animus. ”
The officers believed to be recorded in the tapes also obtained a settlement from the city, for $500,000.
Buttigieg has maintained that releasing the tapes would violate federal wiretapping laws, and the settlement Boykins reached included a clause that stipulated the city did not admit to any wrongdoing regarding “disputed and doubtful” claims.
But the millennial mayor has noted the effect of the controversy on his standing in the city’s minority communities.
“Overwhelming pressure mounted for me to disclose the recordings, especially from the African-American community,” Buttigieg wrote in his political memoir released this year. Protesters picketed his first State of the City address, he wrote, and the story “affected my relationship with the African-American community in particular for years to come.”
During the 2015 State of the City address, Buttigieg said that he was taking steps to build a more diverse police department and planned to engage the “services of professionals with a proven track record of helping American cities improve diversity and inclusion in their hiring in public safety and beyond.”
Race is an increasingly important issue in the Democratic primary process, with more than 80 percent of African-American voters identifying as Democrats. Black voters accounted for nearly a quarter of the Democratic primary electorate in 2016, according to a CNN analysis of exit poll data.
Clinton, eventually the Democratic nominee, came under fire for her use of the phrase “all lives matter” in June 2015 while speaking at a black church near Ferguson, Missouri. The next month, Martin O’Malley, another contender, apologized for his use of the phrase.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who lost to Clinton in 2016 and is leading the pack of declared Democratic candidates this cycle, also came under scrutiny that summer after appearing to dismiss activists with the Black Lives Matter movement who interrupted one of his events in Arizona.
“Black lives, of course, matter,” Sanders said. “I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity. But if you don’t want me to be here that’s okay. I don’t want to outscream people.”
apparently. This was only 4 years ago. Let's see how he addresses this in 2019...Rising Dem star Pete Buttigieg said 'all lives matter' in 2015, putting his record on race in focus
POLITICS
Rising Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg said ‘all lives matter’ in 2015, putting his record on race in the spotlight
PUBLISHED WED, APR 3 2019 • 11:26 AM EDT UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Tucker Higgins@TUCKERHIGGINS
KEY POINTS
- Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg in 2015 addresses two local police controversies in South Bend, Indiana, by saying in an official speech that “all lives matter.”
- The comment could land him in hot water with the Democratic Party’s increasingly energized progressive base and bring new attention to his record on race as the mayor of South Bend.
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 presidential candidate, pauses during the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg in 2015 addressed two local police controversies in South Bend, Indiana, by saying in an official speech that “all lives matter,” a comment that could land him in hot water with his party’s increasingly energized progressive base.
It could also bring new attention to his record on race as the city’s mayor. Activists say that the phrase “all lives matter” misses the point of the Black Lives Matter movement or dismisses it.
Buttigieg was apparently referencing his administration’s refusal to hand over tape recordings of South Bend police officers that remain the subject of legal dispute, as well as the city council’s request that a local police officer stop selling t-shirts that seemed to make light of the 2014 police killing of unarmed black man Eric Garner in New York.
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“There is no contradiction between respecting the risks that police officers take every day in order to protect this community, and recognizing the need to overcome the biases implicit in a justice system that treats people from different backgrounds differently, even when they are accused of the same offenses,” Buttigieg said at the time.
“We need to take both those things seriously, for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter,” he said.
The comments came during Buttigieg’s “State of the City” address at a local high school in March of that year.
Buttigieg, a 37-year-old, openly gay veteran, has taken the Democratic field by storm since he launched his candidacy in late January. The liberal mayor is credited with the economic turnaround of a Midwestern city in a state that went to Trump by nearly 20 points in 2016, and where Vice President Mike Pence served as governor.
But as voters begin to make sense of where Buttigieg stands on national issues, some progressives have begun to raise concerns about his ties to the controversial global consulting outfit McKinsey & Company and what some describe as a focus, at times colored by his gender, on his perceived intelligence, rather than his beliefs and proposals.
“The Mayor’s comment was in the context of discussing racial reconciliation in his 2015 State of the City speech,” said Lis Smith, a spokesperson for Buttigieg, in a statement. “He believes black lives matter and that has been reflected in his actions as mayor of South Bend.”
Buttigieg, police and race
Some critics of Black Lives Matter use the phrase “all lives matter” as a counter slogan. Black Lives Matter activists oppose America’s disproportionate police violence against black people. When Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley said “all lives matter” in 2015 during the last presidential primary race, those comments earned fierce pushback from progressives.
Buttigieg’s comments about race and policing, as well as his record on race as mayor, could prove to be another lightning rod as voters seek out more information on Buttigieg, the only candidate polling above 1 percent without ever holding federal office.
Some local activists have for years been critical of Buttigieg’s economic policies, which they say have disproportionately benefited white residents while doing little to address a higher unemployment rate among minorities. His critics also say Buttigieg’s comments as mayor don’t always stack up against his progressive rhetoric as a presidential candidate.
“That’s four years ago, but it was not that long ago. It was not a time when ‘all lives matter’ was a smart thing to say, or reflective of someone who is concerned about black people being killed by the police,” said Nate Levin-Aspenson, a local organizer in South Bend.
“What I would say is, take a look at what he is saying now, and compare that to his record as mayor. See what you find,” Levin-Aspenson said.
Buttigieg’s comments could also put a spotlight on one of the more controversial aspects of his tenure as mayor of South Bend, involving secret recordings allegedly made of South Bend police officers at the direction of the city’s first African-American police chief, Darryl Boykins. Buttigieg demoted Boykins, who ultimately obtained a $75,000 settlement from the city after suing over what he described as Buttigieg’s “racial animus. ”
The officers believed to be recorded in the tapes also obtained a settlement from the city, for $500,000.
Buttigieg has maintained that releasing the tapes would violate federal wiretapping laws, and the settlement Boykins reached included a clause that stipulated the city did not admit to any wrongdoing regarding “disputed and doubtful” claims.
But the millennial mayor has noted the effect of the controversy on his standing in the city’s minority communities.
“Overwhelming pressure mounted for me to disclose the recordings, especially from the African-American community,” Buttigieg wrote in his political memoir released this year. Protesters picketed his first State of the City address, he wrote, and the story “affected my relationship with the African-American community in particular for years to come.”
During the 2015 State of the City address, Buttigieg said that he was taking steps to build a more diverse police department and planned to engage the “services of professionals with a proven track record of helping American cities improve diversity and inclusion in their hiring in public safety and beyond.”
Race is an increasingly important issue in the Democratic primary process, with more than 80 percent of African-American voters identifying as Democrats. Black voters accounted for nearly a quarter of the Democratic primary electorate in 2016, according to a CNN analysis of exit poll data.
Clinton, eventually the Democratic nominee, came under fire for her use of the phrase “all lives matter” in June 2015 while speaking at a black church near Ferguson, Missouri. The next month, Martin O’Malley, another contender, apologized for his use of the phrase.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who lost to Clinton in 2016 and is leading the pack of declared Democratic candidates this cycle, also came under scrutiny that summer after appearing to dismiss activists with the Black Lives Matter movement who interrupted one of his events in Arizona.
“Black lives, of course, matter,” Sanders said. “I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity. But if you don’t want me to be here that’s okay. I don’t want to outscream people.”