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Former President Barack Obama reportedly told a crowd of donors that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg could not win the presidency because “he’s gay” and “short,” according to a book on the 2020 presidential election.
10 Things in Politics: Mayor Pete's trying to make DOT cool bgriffiths@insider.com (Brent D. Griffiths) © Alex Wong/Getty Images Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Alex Wong/Getty Images Good morning! Welcome back to 10 Things in Politics. We have an incredible range of exclusive reporting from my colleagues today. I'm Brent Griffiths. Don't miss the best of Insider's political coverage!Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox each day. Send your tips and thoughts to bgriffiths@insider.com or tweet me 1. SECRETARY PETE'S HIGH HOPES: Pete Buttigieg is the onl...
South Bend, Ind.’s Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg became the United States’ first openly gay cabinet member. Appointed by President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., many Americans see Buttigieg’s appointment as a positive step on the road to a more progressive and inclusive America.
Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy CNN 2/27/2021 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg/Getty Images Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a file photo from 2007. Njeri Camara, 61, can't visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways. Camara says her parents moved when she was a baby to another Shreveport neighborhood, Allendale,...
That is the working definition of the word "diversity" in our benighted age: no non-Hispanic white Protestant heterosexual males! Only one of the sixteen is a white male Protestant: Peter Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary; and as an Episcopalian, his Protestantism is borderline. I used to be an Episcopalian, and I recall that bit in the liturgy where we prayed for the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Confessionwise I count eight Roman Catholics, four Jews, two Protestants, one Hindu, and one unknown. By sex they break down as ten guys and six gals. Cutting by race and ethnicity: te...