Oppo: Pete Buttigieg



Pete joined the already crowded race in April. Not much was known about him other than he was a mayor of the 4th largest city in Indiana, South Bend, and that he dropped out of the DNC Chair race  in 2017.

Here is just a few things that have come up so far since it is mid-May and he hasn't posted a issues page on his website yet.

GENTRIFICATION

The main thing that will always hit a mayor especially is how they dealt with gentrification in their city. Buttigieg supporters will say he did the right thing by going after the abandoned homes but his critics will point out where those homes were and that people could have moved in and fixed them up.  


"But the story of what happened in between — of an ambitious white leader literally plowing ahead before addressing concerns in the community of color — is not the story Buttigieg, 37, tells."




LGBTQIA ISSUES

Being an openly gay politician, one would think Mayor Pete would be fairly progressive on LGBTQIA issues (he has even declared his nemesis as Mike Pence who Pete says holds a a "social extremist ideology" attacking gay rights) but there is a group on the left that will never forgive him for the stance he took on Chelsea Manning when Obama commuted her sentence her.

"I certainly agree that we've learned things about abuses and that one way or another that needed to come out," Buttigieg said. "But in my view, the way for that to come out is through Congressional oversight, not through a breach of classified information."



PRO-ISRAEL

He believes Israel is a good role model on how to handle security threats and is not happy with the trend of Democrats not supporting Israel. 


POLICE REFORM

In 2015, Mayor Pete used the term "All Lives Matter" in a speech.

CAPITALISM

"If you want to see what happens when you have capitalism without democracy, you can see it very clearly in Russia." - Buttigieg


HEALTH CARE

Buttigieg is right there with all the other moderate candidates talking of a public option. In fact, he just doesn't get why there shouldn't be a public option.



COLLEGE

Excerpts from All About Pete by CA pic.twitter.com/BDbc30umQg — Heba Hersi (@Hebahersi) November 20, 2019
Pete isn't for those fancy "free college" plan. He wants to boost Pell Grants and loan forgiveness instead.



WOMEN'S ISSUES

 RACE RELATIONS (BEYOND GENTRIFICATION)








CLIMATE


LIVING WAGE 


TIME AT McKINSEY 

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