Pete takes on Pence

Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of Fort Wayne IN

Friends from various odd corners of my world are talking with excitement about Pete Buttigieg's recent announcement as a candidate for president in 2020.

Sharon from Sacramento emailed me.

Dana in Orange County called my husband to talk about him.

Andrea Mitchell reported about him on MSNBC this morning--I count her as a friend.

Buttigieg is a Christian and church-goer.  

When asked about Pence, he said he doesn't understand how Pence can claim to be a Christian yet support "a porn-star presidency."

He said his own understanding of Scripture is "protecting the prisoner... the stranger...the poor person" and giving "welcome."    That matches my own understanding.

He noted that sexuality seems to be the main concern of Pence's Christianity.

See this interview on CNN:  https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/03/11/pete-buttgieg-town-hall-pence-or-trump-sot-vpx.cnn

He also wants to expand the Supreme Court and get rid of the Electoral College.  The key is to reframe the debate so that fundamental change can be understood as pragmatic.

And he's not taking corporate money!  Radical, indeed.

Could he win some millennial votes from Bernie Sanders?  At any rate, it's important to get him enough separate donors to qualify for a part in the primary debates.

On January 24, the New York Times ran a review of his memoir, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future.

The reviewer, Adam Nagourney, puzzled over why a guy 37 years old would write a memoir: "this does seem a little early."  

He compared it to Barack Obama writing a memoir in 1995, nine years before he burst onto the national scene.  Then he suggested that a memoir might be "the modern equivalent of an early outing to New Hampshire."

When one considers that in 1995 no one thought Obama might become president, "...the notion that Buttigieg might be the nation's first openly gay president doesn't feel quite as far-fetched," Nagourney concludes.  

To donate via Act Blue, go to https://www.google.com/search?q=actblue+pete+buttigieg&rlz=1C1EJFC_enUS839US839&oq=act+blue+pete+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.10478j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8