Pete Butti-GAFFE

[mobeau69]

Link to tweet

[WeekiWater]

1. .

[Gato malo]

2. Cash or no cash?

He could say yes or no and still be nuanced.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Scared me!

[USALiberal]

4. Me too! Nt

[Perrenial Voter]

5. He's obviously a smart guy...

You might want to look at this profile of him before deciding whether he has credibility on this issue as someone who will seriously fight for this issue (because it will take a massive struggle to make it happen):

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete

Although i think the author is overly-critical, his point is that Buttgieg has done nothing for the poor blacks that constitute about a quarter of his city and that, based on his book, he has barely noticed them.

[IndyOp]

6. The article is a hit job - he has taken action on behalf of AAs in his community

The 50-year-old South Bend Charles Black Community Center was refurbished and doubled in size.

His evidence-based government discovered that people receiving the worst service from the city - think trash pick up and potholes - rarely called in complaints. Service was improved.

SB installed equipment to detect shots fired. He thought that probably 20% were not reported to the police. It turned out that 80% were not called in. The police are now dispatched anytime a shot is detected to interview neighbors.

He is with Senator Booker on criminal justice reform also on the 10-20-30 rule - 10% of federal money should be spent in communities in which more than 20% of the population has lived below the poverty level for 30 years.

He wants to double teacher salaries starting with disadvantaged schools because the evidence shows that excellent teachers have a huge impact on the lives of children who attend.

I need to learn more about his plans, but he is off to a good start. I hope he’ll present more info on programs in South Bend.

The Current Affairs article is a hit job. Would he have come off better if he had a chapter in which he bragged about everything he has done “for them”? He does talk about working with the minority communities.

In his re-election he won every district - including the majority minority districts.

[Perrenial Voter]

8. Thanks for the corrective info. I don't like pass on distorted information. n/t

[crimycarny]

9. I was taken aback by the anger coming from the author

A total hit piece. "Pete is all about Pete" ? Seriously? The vehemence with which this article was written was off putting, to say the least, and made me dismiss it almost immediately. Sounds like the author sees Buttigieg as a threat, I wonder against who/what?

[USALiberal]

7. He won first election with 74% of the votes, 2nd term with 78%......

So apparently he is doing something right.

[customerserviceguy]

11. Any Democratic nominee who answers any question about reparations

other than the way Pete did in those clips, is going to get trounced in the general election. Call for cash payments and an unwieldy scheme for distributing them, and Trump will eat us alive. Dismiss the question with a flat no, or even a wordy no, and our base is gone.

President Obama managed very well to walk the fine line between the two extremes.

[mobeau69]

18. That should be in their study guides for debate prep.

[Celerity]

12. the author of that article, Nathan J. Robinson, is a piece of shit

as evidence

http://superpredatorbook.com/

SUPERPREDATOR
BILL CLINTON'S USE AND ABUSE OF BLACK AMERICA

[Perrenial Voter]

14. I haven't read that book it but it is cited in support of a lot of the work

on the prison industrial complex, along with "The New Jim Crow" (which I have read and which is impeccably resarched) The author is a Ph. D. student in sociology at Harvard.

I suppose this is a little ironic, since much of his criticism in the article is his association with Harvard and other elite institutions, which he says blinds its participants to the experiences of the non-elite world.

[mobeau69]

16. That was about 20 minutes that I'll never get back.

What a dick.

[Blue_true]

17. Yet, he won EVERY majority AA district during the prinary

and General of his reelection race. How could that be if he ignored Black and Briwn people? How could that be? I ask again, how could that be?

[RLG]

21. Which makes him like some if not all of the candidates running in 2020.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Renew Deal]

10. Funny

[left-of-center2012]

13. Funny how much the other candidates fear Pete

[Blue_true]

19. Only ones' supporters have worked to smear Mayor Pete.

But anyone close or ahead get smeared by supporters of that candidate. It is always find a "hit" article or selectively leave out exculpatory information.

[Celerity]

20. One of the worst supports another candidate, but yes

you are spot on overall.

[Quixote1818]

15. He says what I think in a much more eloquent manor. :) nt