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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pete Buttigieg’s “qualifications” for Transportation Secretary:

1. Likes trains
2. Gay[/quote]
Um no. Do you think gay people are inherently unequal because of their sexual preferences.

Pete B. Was the mayor of a city population of 900k people and a municipal budget of 1.6 billion dollars. I think he could handle DOT with a workforce of a little over 56k. It wasn’t Treasury or Defense. 
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I have no problem with Buttigieg, but it’s a big step from South Bend to US DOT. DOT is 100x the budget and staff of South Bend government. The mayor doesn’t run the entire population of the city, and the DOT serves the population not just the employees.[/quote]

+1 I was annoyed by Buttigieg's appointment for this reason. It was a reward for doing well in the primaries and a nod to Mayor Pete fans. I think Pete is smart but he was not qualified for that appointment. And now he's "moved" to Michigan so he can run for office there and it's just transparently about the party trying to elevate him to a role from which he can run for President again instead of drawing from the ranks of already qualified people for these roles. It's a problem created by Pete overperforming expectations when he ran and then getting a lot of progressives who like the idea of a youngish, married, veteran, gay guy. They saw him and thought "Gay Obama!" and then tried to reverse engineer his resume to make that work.

This is not shade on Pete himself, but those instincts are VERY bad for the Democratic party and that's why Pete shouldn't have gotten that particular cabinet appointment.

So now that I've said all that I'll say: Pete Hegseth is not qualified to lead the DoD and his appointment is an embarrassment for all involved.[/quote]

And yet, he has been a fabulous head of DOT.[/quote]

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