Buttigieg’s star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts
toward him
Associated Press,
by
Hope Yen
,
Tom Beaumont
&
Josh Boak
Original Article
Posted By: ronbet,
11/14/2021 5:20:55 PM
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. CORRECTIONS*
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/14/2021 5:25:51 PM (No. 977557)
Of all the incompetent, obnoxious dumpster fires populating this national nightmare of an Administration, Buttigieg tops the list.
Hopefully, Jesus will return first and we'll be spared.
37 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
peebster 11/14/2021 5:31:50 PM (No. 977560)
Yes, please build your campaign platform on racist roads, $150K electric vehicles, white supremacy, and global warming (sorry, climate change). Even Chris Christie would poll better.
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 11/14/2021 5:32:40 PM (No. 977561)
Buttguy's star isn't going anywhere no matter how desperately the clowns at AP want to puff him up.
33 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 11/14/2021 5:33:05 PM (No. 977562)
He's a nasty little Alfred E. Neuman look alike pervert. And he knows NOTHING about transportation, roads, etc. Just a political hack with the proper perversion resume.
31 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 11/14/2021 5:34:05 PM (No. 977564)
There's 1 billion. How are they going to waste the other 999 billion?
16 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/14/2021 5:34:16 PM (No. 977565)
Evidently some think, including AP propagandists that Pete Buttigieg is presidential material.
12 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 11/14/2021 5:35:16 PM (No. 977567)
Barf Alert . Roads are racist . The never tires of the 52 card racist deck of cards .
9 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/14/2021 5:36:24 PM (No. 977568)
It took THREE AP reporters to write this rubbish article on rubbish Buttsky? Small town mayor as Secretary of Transportation for the United States of America? Ridiculous run for president? Stay home, Mommy. Your babies need you much more than our dear country does.
19 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
marbles 11/14/2021 5:40:11 PM (No. 977572)
* The LEFT never tires...........
12 people like this.
I have a friend, who is gay, who expressed high hopes for "Mayor Pete" as a potential future President. I pointed out to him that "Mayor Pete" had never done anything more than run a small city, and had failed miserably in the primaries. Out of respect for my friend, and because there were no solid facts available about whether or not "Mayor Pete" had any competence or not, I told my friend that he should wait to see what "Mayor Pete" does going forward before getting excited about him.
I suspect that the Democratic establishment feels the way my friend did (and probably still does) and hopes to make him their candidate in 2024. I think that they are making a serious mistake in bringing him forward so far before 2024. I think he will prove to be no more competent than Kamala, and bringing him into the spotlight now will reveal that.
13 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/14/2021 5:56:52 PM (No. 977581)
Buttigieg has already gone supernova by being awol in a major transportation crisis so he could help his husband take care of a baby. There is no putting that cloud of cosmic dust back together. Gushing like this has not been seen since the glorious reign of the Obamas, who were also worthless and inept - but I consider the source.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
seamusm 11/14/2021 6:13:52 PM (No. 977593)
A pervert with money to spend is still a pervert - and it means he's a thief when it's MY money he is spending .
8 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 11/14/2021 6:21:00 PM (No. 977601)
The only transporting Butt Gig is doing is window shopping SUV's to transport his daughters around.
Oh wait ... they're not daughters ...
3 people like this.
But of course Alfred E won’t take the blame for all of the waste, fraud and theft of taxpayers money that this bill will surely produce.
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/14/2021 6:28:28 PM (No. 977609)
#10, if you’ve ever driven anywhere near South Bend, you’ll see what a bang up job he did as mayor. South Bend isn’t much better than the south side of Chicago.
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 11/14/2021 6:34:07 PM (No. 977612)
Of course its star is rising... He's an incompetent boob, BUT he's a homosexual so... no problems!
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
TJ54 11/14/2021 6:51:44 PM (No. 977622)
LOL! When Pete was mayor of South Bend, twenty percent of the adult population traveled each day to Republican controlled Elkhart for work
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/14/2021 6:54:14 PM (No. 977625)
Get real, Gramscian diaper dopey baby? Uh, no.
1 person likes this.
I doubt it is his star that is rising.
3 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/14/2021 7:03:58 PM (No. 977632)
The ONLY thing that Buttigieg has going for himself is that he is gay. Something that he brought up at every opportunity. I said it in 2020, and I'll say it again...............Black American men will not vote for this pillow biter. He's also not going to get the Gay Republican vote. ...... which is a much larger group than many would believe.
9 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/14/2021 7:30:04 PM (No. 977650)
Buttigieg? Surely you jest!
3 people like this.
Rising star? What?! This story is ninety-proof propaganda.
3 people like this.
Are they kidding? Mayor Petey is a disaster waiting to happen. What a terrible Secretary he has been. That is, when he has been in the office. Between him and the nominee who wants to end private banking, I don't know which one is worse. They are both UnAmerican.
8 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 11/14/2021 9:35:51 PM (No. 977744)
Butt’s star rises because he’s so competent. Do I need the /s ?
5 people like this.
More like a comet than a star. Biden just designated a former mayor of New Orleans to coordinate implementation of the fake infrastructure bill.
1 person likes this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
smcchk 11/14/2021 9:46:47 PM (No. 977755)
Pete needs to get those boats unloaded and goods dispersed first. When is that going to happen? I think his star is burning out quickly.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/14/2021 11:38:52 PM (No. 977809)
I heard some muttering over the weekend that the powers that be are working to oust Biden AND Karmella.... I pray that this isn't some sort of grooming for that fool as a replacement.
2 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Luandir 11/15/2021 12:19:39 AM (No. 977830)
#27, I sense that is exactly what's going on. This isn't the only piece to emerge from the Narrative Machine this weekend touting Petey even as Zho and Kommie's stars plunge. Rush was right to warn about this Red Diaper Baby. The man is a devious and dangerous enemy to our Republic.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Rama41 11/15/2021 3:32:29 AM (No. 977857)
The guy doesn't know anything. I watched Chris Wallace ask him very simple questions and all he gave was prepared flack from his staff. They'll never let him meet with a real reporter.
2 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/15/2021 3:46:59 AM (No. 977866)
I wonder how much money ButtBoy will scim off or will he have to compete with the NO criminal?
1 person likes this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
mifla 11/15/2021 4:36:35 AM (No. 977875)
Kammie is upset, she wants her star to rise, but Joe won't help. It would seem that "first gay" trumps "first black/female".
2 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/15/2021 11:04:38 AM (No. 978238)
Seems Buttboy was playing with a bicycle pump, stuck it in himself and now his head is 10x it's original size...
0 people like this.
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