pothole pete buttigieg. he has been utterly mia and in two years he aimlessly presided over multiple airline fiasco and chaos america shipping ports and supply chain nightmare that s still ongoing and a disaster in east palestine, ohio, a train wreck followed by a controlled chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water. we have dead fish and dead animal and sick people. pothole pete, he s nowhere to be found and same with joe. he did nothing about a toxic fire so huge that it could be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately pothole pete was shamed into making a statement. last week he declared that east palestine was getsing more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing. obviously, they have levels of severity. where all of that points us to is a need to raise the bar on rail safety.
you going to east palestine? well, i am planning to go. our folks are on the ground from the first hour. i do want to stress that the ntsb needs to be able to do its work independently. when i go, the focus is going on on action, look, i was mayor of my hometown for eight years. we dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human. a lot of disasters, okay, so we did a little digging and found some of those so-called disasters that pothole pete was forced to manage as mayor. according to the south ben tribune, one of his greatest challenges was turning several 1-way street to 2-way streets. that s a big challenge. another major challenge, he had to figure out what to do with all the city s empty lots and last but not least, his nickname, pothole pete, he has it for a reason. under his leadership, indiana was home to the worst roads in the entire state or as political put it, the former