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In reply to the discussion: 🔥🔥 BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg is IN -- he'll be running for president in 2028! [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,968 posts)39. he better be able to explain
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-buttigiegs-decision-on-police-chief-shadows-his-presidential-run
the fact he fired a black chief of police because he caught cops saying that n word,
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How Buttigieg's decision on police chief shadows his presidential run
Politics Jan 16, 2020 12:20 PM EDT
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg.
It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to replace the city's first African American police chief over complaints that he illegally wiretapped police officers' phone calls.
DePaepe, who oversaw the department's phone system, had called the mayor to try to talk him out of removing the popular chief. She wanted to tell him the situation was not that simple. It was DePaepe who discovered a mistakenly recorded phone line, and, she says, heard white police officers making racist comments. She said in an interview with The Associated Press that she reported what she heard to the chief, and the recording continued.
the fact he fired a black chief of police because he caught cops saying that n word,
from the article:
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How Buttigieg's decision on police chief shadows his presidential run
Politics Jan 16, 2020 12:20 PM EDT
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg.
It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to replace the city's first African American police chief over complaints that he illegally wiretapped police officers' phone calls.
DePaepe, who oversaw the department's phone system, had called the mayor to try to talk him out of removing the popular chief. She wanted to tell him the situation was not that simple. It was DePaepe who discovered a mistakenly recorded phone line, and, she says, heard white police officers making racist comments. She said in an interview with The Associated Press that she reported what she heard to the chief, and the recording continued.
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🔥🔥 BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg is IN -- he'll be running for president in 2028! [View all]
Swede
Friday
OP
He is formidable, intelligent, articulate, wise. So were Hillary and Kamala. The misogynist voters won't have
wiggs
Friday
#12
Yes, many historic and contemporary societies discriminated against "bottoms" in particular.
Marcuse
19 hrs ago
#78
After tRUMP and his destructive ways we'll need someone like Pete to come in afterwards, and restore our faith in
SWBTATTReg
Friday
#13
He can't win for president. But he'd win in a landslide for US Senator almost anywhere
SpankMe
Friday
#14
I think that he is a great guy, but I am leery of anyone from the Biden administration running for
everyonematters
Friday
#17
Yep, was hoping he would have run for senator or at least a House seat once he moved to Michigan
fujiyamasan
Yesterday
#46
He's welcome to try but transportation isn't really considered prestigious like Secretary of State, defense, or AG
fujiyamasan
Yesterday
#47
Governor is a very tough lift for a person who has only just moved to a state. US Senate would be much easier IMHO (see
Celerity
Yesterday
#53
*If* 2028 is a free and fair election, I could see Pete making an Obama like surprise
Tommy Carcetti
Yesterday
#51
My clear #1 choice... he'd bring that calm competence back to the White House that Obama brought.
WarGamer
21 hrs ago
#67
America is not ready for a woman president, much less a gay man with a husband.
Wanderlust988
21 hrs ago
#68