Feud between Pete Buttigieg and Mike Pence escalates

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Feud between Pete Buttigieg and Mike Pence escalates

By Dan Merica, CNN 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/09/politics/buttigieg-pence-escalates/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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"They've always had a great relationship," Karen Pence said on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's radio show on Tuesday. "It's funny because I don't think the vice president does have a problem with him, but I think it's helping Pete to get some notoriety by saying that about the vice president."

The comment comes after Alyssa Farah, Pence's spokeswoman, tweeted that Pence -- as governor -- responded to the mayor's coming out in 2015 by saying he holds Buttigieg "in the highest personal regard. I see him as a dedicated public servant and a patriot."

Karen Pence responded to that on Tuesday.

"I'm just like, 'Pete, did you not like that,' because that's what the vice president said about him," she said. "So what's the problem with that?"

Buttigieg appeared to respond to the pushback from Pence's orbit on Tuesday, tweeting, "People will often be polite to you in person, while advancing policies that harm you and your family. You will be polite to them in turn, but you need not stand for such harms. Instead, you push back, honestly and emphatically. So it goes, in the public square."



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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. I'm so glad Buttigieg is calling out their bigotry.

[jezebel321]

2. the whole right wing Pence argument right now is "oh sweet

Pence never said one mean thing about Buttigieg".
Are they being deliberately obtuse? It is about every anti LGBT thing Pence has stood for his whole career.

[Kurt V.]

3. i get to quote buttigieg!

" so it goes, ..."

[WeekiWater]

4. This highlights one of the difficulties of religious bigotry.

They often wear two faces and the ugly aspects are the ones that become law and increase hate.