Good day all. South Bend Indiana Mayor Peter “Buttplug” Buttigieg is one of the Democrats running for president. He’s been running on, among other things, his record as mayor of South Bend Indiana. So why are the residents of that city telling America not to vote for him?
Pete Buttigieg, who likes to call himself Mayor Pete, and who I refer to as Mayor Buttplug has held office for 2 terms. Apparently, like pretty much any Democratic CommuNazi anywhere, Buttplug has been ignoring the “Minority” communities. Here are some of the details from The New York Post:
When residents of this city’s impoverished West Side reflect on Pete Buttigieg’s two terms as mayor, a few things come to mind:
A spike in violent crime, development that largely ignored the African American community and how their only well-lit street is the one that leads to the University of Notre Dame.
From what I’ve read, South Bend is an outlier with the rest of the state. Pretty much all the other cities and towns are actually doing very well. Reduced crime, jobs, all the good things Democratic CommuNazis promise, and yet, never actually deliver on.
So how, they wonder, can Buttigieg possibly be trusted to run the country?
Well, I certainly don’t trust him.
“If he’s the next president, I fear for our country. He couldn’t run our city. How can he run the United States?” said Michelle Burger, 42, a stay-at-home mom who lives in South Bend’s impoverished and predominantly black West Side.
“Look at all the crime — he didn’t do anything about it. Look at our quality of life. If he becomes president, the United States will become one big South Bend — a giant sinkhole. We’ll be in a new depression.”
One of the things I’ve been reading is how Buttplug’s campaign makes most soap operas look lame. The entire campaign is all #Woke with everyone taking offense at every little thing, down to ho someone leaves a pencil on a desk. Buttplug’s been busy apologizing to everyone internally for every perceived slight in existence.
Another West Side resident, Cornish Miller, 62, said of Buttigieg, “Rating him 1 to 10, I’d give him a 2.”
“Buttigieg talked about all the improvements he made, but he hardly made a dent,” said Miller, who works for a military supply company.
“The West Side is the most neglected part of town. The street I live on is the only street around here that has lights. That’s because we’re a gateway to Notre Dame.”
Some in South Bend describe Buttigieg’s mayoralty as a nightmare during which FBI data show that violent crimes surged from 622 in 2012, his first year, to 1,088 in 2018, the latest for which statistics are available.
“We had a record number of homicides during his time as mayor, and it didn’t seem like he was feeling the people’s psychological, emotional and spiritual needs,” said the Rev. Sylvester Williams Jr. of the Interfaith Christian Union.
“It seemed like he was focused on creating a progressive city, that he was above tending to those basic needs.”
Congratulations Reverend, you have just discovered what all Progressives consider to be progress. It has nothing to do with actual accomplishments and making things better for most people. It’s all about appearances and “Feelz.”
One of Buttigieg’s fiercest critics, Councilman Henry Davis Jr., said Buttigieg was “inept” as mayor and “always had one foot out the door.”
He cited Buttigieg’s six-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2014 as a Navy Reserve intelligence officer, as well as his failed 2017 attempt to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Well the call up for reserve duty is not something you can just blow off. Unless there is an actual good reason, and being an incompetent mayor isn’t one of them, you’re going when they call you. Other then that, you are on target, keep firing for effect Councilman.
“And then he came back and takes off again and wants to be president of the United States,” said Davis, who unsuccessfully challenged Buttigieg in South Bend’s 2015 Democratic mayoral primary.
“So he really has never been here and committed to the growth and the [functionality] of this community. It’s always been a gateway to something that he believed was larger.”
This sounds awfully familiar. Who else always seemed to be looking at being president while accomplishing nothing? Hmmm, don’t tell me, it will come me…
So, how did this inept nitwit become mayor?
Buttigieg beat four opponents to win the Democratic primary with 55 percent of the vote and was elected in November with 74 percent of the vote. He was just 29 when he took office.
But while the overwhelmingly Democratic city has more than 71,000 registered voters, Buttigieg was swept into office with just 10,991 votes and his 2015 re-election bid garnered even fewer — 8,515 — even while winning 80 percent of the ballots cast.
Oh great. Basically no one bothered to show up at the polls. Considering that South Bend looks like a single party city, I can see why. What’s the point when all your choices are bad ones? I’d also like to know where the Republican Party was in all this? The city looks ripe for a political switch.
The NY Post article goes through a list of “Accomplishments,” and I’ll let you read them yourself. While there has been improvement, a lot of it seems to have come about in spite of Buttplug, not because of him.
But Indiana Republican Party chairman Kyle Hupfer countered that while Buttigieg “certainly had a few economic development wins,” he actually had “little, if anything, to do with that.”
“I found it ironic that when he announced his presidential run, he did it in front of Studebaker Building 84, which had sat vacant since 1963,” Hupfer said.
“But it was $3.5 million from then-Gov. Mike Pence’s Regional Cities Initiative that made that project go.”
In this case, he is referring to a plan to convert the old Studebaker plant into a tech center. As for the unemployment rate, it has dropped significantly in South Bend has it has all over the country, no thanks to people like Buttplug.
Hupfer said increased employment in the area covering South Bend — where the unemployment rate dropped from 9.3 percent in 2012 to 3.6 percent in 2018 — was largely a function of “statewide economic strength under Republican leadership.”
And who do you think we have to thank for that dramatic turnaround? I know it’s someone important. Just wait a moment, it will come to me. Now who was that again?
Buttigieg has long been at odds with much of South Bend’s African American community, which accounts for 26 percent of the population and has a median income about half that of the city’s white residents, according to a 2017 report by the “Prosperity Now” nonprofit.
Shortly after taking office, Buttigieg fired the city’s first black police chief, Darryl Boykins, over allegations that Boykins secretly recorded the phone calls of high-ranking white cops suspected of using racist language against him and others.
Ok, I can see a few issues here. First, we do not need police who are racists, of any skin tone or ethnic origin. Second, did the chief have the correct legal paperwork to monitor the calls? If he didn’t, then he’s just as bad as the cops who he was targeting, if, in fact, they were saying and doing things regarding people with a darker skin tone then mine. I assume Buttplug cleaned out the vermin in the police department, didn’t he?
From 2012 to 2018, the number of black cops fell by almost half — from 29 to 15, compared to more than 200 whites — and in June, the city was rocked when a white police sergeant shot and killed 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was black, while responding to a report of someone breaking into cars.
I have a vague memory of this, but didn’t read up on it. Because I have no information, I can’t offer any comments, pro or con regarding the incident. However, Mayor Buttplug seems to have felt rather put upon to come off the campaign trail and actually do his job as mayor.
The South Bend Board of Public Safety held eight community meetings to address the controversy, but Buttigieg only attended one, in September, a day after Black Lives Matter activists publicly complained about his response to the killing.
Williams, who hosts a local radio show called “Real Talk,” pointed to another June shooting outside a bar called Kelly’s Pub that left one man dead and 10 people injured, all of whom were black.
The incident sparked so much community outrage that it forced a lockdown at a local hospital when more than 100 “angry and upset citizens” showed up there, the sheriff said at the time.
“Not one time did he try to bring some level of compassion or sympathy,” Williams said of Buttigieg.
He’s a Rhodes scholar. He’s a polished politician. He’s been to a lot of schools of prominence. But there’s one school he omitted — and that’s the school of grief.”
I’m not surprised at all at Buttplugs lack of compassion. He’s a typical Progressive Democratic CommuNazi. It’s all about him, and what other can do for him. Showing up at things like this? Unless it’s going to help him, he can’t be bothered. He’s also been slammed for his dealing with homelessness in the city.
The founder of South Bend’s Michiana Five for the Homeless nonprofit, John Shafer, estimated that the city had about 500 vagrants, ranging from some who are “temporarily couch surfing” to others “living in abandoned vehicles, abandoned buildings, alleys, tents.”
“I just feel he didn’t care. I also feel he couldn’t relate to the homeless. And it just wasn’t one of his priorities,” Shafer said.
“I think he did more harm than good, and any good he did was a result of him running for office and trying to cover up some of those mistakes and neglects from his past dealings with the homeless.”
To really stick the knife in, the New York Post spoke with a vagrant in South Bend. (Holy Panhandling Batman! A journalist who did actual work instead of reading publicity handouts!)
A vagrant whom The Post interviewed as he panhandled near South Bend’s main emergency shelter, the Center for the Homeless, said that if Buttigieg gets elected president, “you can bet you’ll see a lot more people like me around the country.”
Peter Buttplug is yet another Progressive Liberal Democratic CommuNazi. He only cares about himself and moving ahead. He will do his job, ineptly, only to protect himself as he looks for his next gig. Right now, he see’s his next gig not as Governor of Indiana, (A job where he will actually have to show up for work), but as President of the United States of America.
His policies aren’t much different from Comrade Bernie’s, which is expected since Buttplug is a Red Diaper baby. His military service seems to have been driving an admiral or general around, at least that’s what I’ve been hearing. He certainly wasn’t getting shot at every day like many people I’ve spoken to over the years. While the DNC might be able to stomach Pete Buttplug over Bernie Sanders, his record as mayor is going to be grist for President Trump’s Twitter mill, if he gets the DNC nomination. The last thing this country needs is yet another inept moonbat who puts “Feelz” over accomplishment.
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