Pete Buttigieg Tag

Non-Essential Worker Pete Buttigieg Secretly Was on Paid Paternity Leave Since August and No One Noticed

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 15, 2021 68 Comments

"While U.S. ports faced anchor-to-anchor traffic and Congress nearly melted down over the president’s infrastructure bill in recent weeks, the usually omnipresent Transportation secretary was lying low."...

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Buttigieg Confronted Over His Lies About Infrastructure Package

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 12, 2021 12 Comments

Fox News' Chris Wallace corrected Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's lies about the infrastructure package on live TV. Buttigieg claimed America ranks 13th in infrastructure and the package would create 19 million jobs. Both are lies.

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Buttigieg Caught Unloading Bike From Huge SUV to Ride Short Distance

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 02, 2021 43 Comments

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wanted to look like an environmentalist by biking to his destination. A camera caught the secretary unloading his bike from a huge SUV, only a short distance from his destination.

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Former ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg Declares War On Rural Red States With Call For Mileage Tax

Posted by Legal Insurrection Staff on March 26, 2021 98 Comments

Pete Buttigieg wants to charge you more to get to work and buy groceries. The former mayor-turned-U.S. Transportation Secretary renewed calls for a Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT).

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Report: Biden Administration Pondering Domestic Travel Restrictions Due to COVID-19 Mutation

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 10, 2021 68 Comments

The Miami Herald and McClatchy DC reported that President Joe Biden's administration has started looking into domestic travel restrictions thanks to the COVID-19 mutation:

Outbreaks of the new variants — including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines — have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

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AOC, Jen Rubin (WaPo), and Former Buttigieg Staffers Launch Effort To Purge Trump Supporters From Public Life

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 07, 2020 38 Comments

A few weeks ago, former Clinton Administration official Robert Reich called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to identify and shame people associated with Trump's presidency. Now AOC, Jennifer Rubin, and others are actually pushing just such a thing. These are the people who accused Trump of being a fascist.

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Pete Buttigieg’s Husband Chosen for Harvard Institute of Politics Fellowship Despite Lack of Experience

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 17, 2020 9 Comments

"He has worked as a busboy, dog walker, nursing assistant, waiter, cashier, bartender, and most recently a middle school drama and humanities teacher"...

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Pete Buttigieg Hired by Notre Dame to ‘Restore Trust’ in Politics

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 22, 2020 16 Comments

"I am delighted to join this academic community to pursue research on one of the most salient issues of our time, the nature of trust"...

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Report: Buttigieg to Endorse Biden Monday Night, Day After Phone Call With Obama

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 02, 2020 21 Comments

President Barack Obama has said over and over that he will not endorse a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary. But is he supporting his Vice President Joe Biden behind the scenes? Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is supposedly mulling an endorsement of Biden after he spoke to both men after he dropped out of the race on Sunday. Now reports say Buttigieg, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), will endorse Biden Monday night at a rally in Dallas.

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Pete Buttigieg dropping out of presidential race

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 01, 2020 57 Comments

"Mayor" Pete Buttigieg is dropping out the the Democratic primary race.

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Report: University and College Professors Hate Pete Buttigieg

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 24, 2020 5 Comments

"He reminds them of someone they hated in college."...

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Media Pushes False Narrative That Klobuchar and Buttigieg Are ‘Moderates’

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 15, 2020 48 Comments

With socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' star rising in the Democratic Party and the rampant infighting going on in Democrat circles as to whether or not that's a good thing, the mainstream media is pushing a new narrative in advance of the upcoming Nevada caucuses, South Carolina primary, and Super Tuesday.

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Pete Buttigieg … the Robotic Candidate?

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 12, 2020 52 Comments

Back in the spring of 2019, the political world was marveling at how small-town mayor Pete Buttigieg seemingly arrived from out of nowhere and took over Beto O’Rourke’s spot as the media’s favorite Democratic presidential candidate.

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Buttigieg Leads in Iowa With 26.9% of Delegates With 62% Precincts Reporting

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 04, 2020 55 Comments

The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) released results from 62% of its precincts reporting. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has a slight leader over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 26.9% to 25.1%.

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Pete Buttigieg Campaign Reportedly Worried About Staff Microaggressions

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2020 23 Comments

We have repeatedly covered the topic of microaggressions as part of our ongoing examination of the culture of higher education. We did not however, expect the subject to come up in our coverage of the 2020 Democratic primary.

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Looks Like Buttigieg Won’t Support Changing Democratic Platform on Abortion

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 27, 2020 26 Comments

A pro-life Democrat asked 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg if he would support changing the abortion language in the Democratic Party platform. Buttigieg did the politician thing where he answered, but don't answer.

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Pete Buttigieg suggests Trump to blame for Iranians shooting down Ukrainian airliner

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2020 37 Comments

You just knew that in an era of pathological Trump Derangement Syndrome, Democrats would blame Trump for Iran shooting down a Ukrainian airliner at Tehran airport on the night Iran fired ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops. Iran fired the missile, there were no U.S. planes in action over Tehran and we were not firing at them, but somehow Trump would be blamed. Laurence Tribe, the TDS-infused Harvard Law School professor, is going there:

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Bernie is Back – Huge Cash Haul in 4Q 2019

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 02, 2020 21 Comments

Democrat insiders sounded the alarm last week that Bernie was back and may even win the nomination.  Fourth quarter fundraising suggests they are right to be alarmed. He raised a whopping $34.5 million.

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