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Buttigieg came out as gay in a June 2015 piece in the South Bend Tribune, [109] becoming Indiana's first openly gay elected executive. [315] [316] [317] He was the first elected official in Indiana to come out while in office [318] and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out. [317] Pete and Chasten Buttigieg in 2019
Buttigieg has frequently pointed to automation as the chief cause of the great loss of manufacturing jobs nationwide. [24] He has spoken of the need to work with labor unions. [ 25 ] As a self-proclaimed democratic capitalist , Buttigieg rejects crony capitalism and supports a constitutional amendment to protect democracy from the undue and ...
Pete Buttigieg is the youngest secretary, taking office at 39 years 15 days old, overtaking Neil Goldschmidt as the youngest secretary, taking office at 39 years 3 months old, [5] while Norman Mineta was the oldest, retiring at age 74. [6] In April 2008, Mary Peters launched the official blog of the secretary of transportation called The Fast ...
Pete Buttigieg's time as Transportation Secretary has been anything but ... Buttigieg's only previous experience in elected office came as mayor of ... Buttigieg has learned a lot on the job. And ...
Pete Buttigieg is once again in the running for high office, jostling with other vice presidential contenders to join Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket. How Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign ...
Pete Buttigieg has appeared to lean into his role as the face of the ... In his two years on the job, Buttigieg has repeatedly criticized U.S. airlines for chronic cancellations and shoddy ...
Pete Buttigieg served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 2012 to 2020. Elected in 2011 as a Democrat, he took office in January 2012 at the age of 29, becoming the second-youngest mayor in South Bend history, and the youngest incumbent mayor, at the time, of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents.
“I love my job, and being able to work on things that are this important … is an incredible opportunity,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Yahoo News.