He also says he will not stop taking money from billionaires or corporations.
Here is his response to not letting the press in for fundraising events.
Weasel Pete is going to get kneecapped over his corporatists behavior. It should also be brought up that back in his city, the law enforcement used pete’s donors to get him to fire that black police chief, and in these same records those people were being racist and imitating ebonics.
As anyone with a brain expected, Pete is a corporate shill doing the bidding of his donors and continuing the legacy of the corporate democratic party. As you see with many dopers support for him, he’s a centrist who appeals to older democratic voters. He had abysmal approval by blacks in SC. He’s taking money from organizations that were started up to combat M4A. Support for pete coming from dopers specifically really goes to show how out of touch many democrats are. Thank god we have Sanders who’s rallying up support among non-voters, independent voters, and even pulls the largest number of trump voters than any other candidate.
You both are completely missing or avoiding the issue here. Money influences people, having an billionaires and multi billion dollars corporations line your pockets when you’re running for or are in office is a conflict of interest.
Despite the obvious issues, if we want to ignore all substance and merit… majority of americans want to get money out of politics. And you can’t sit here and tell me they absolutely have to take billionaire checks to win an election, there are plenty of candidates who are out fundraising their corp counter parts with small donations per individual alone at the grass roots level.
Weasel Pete can’t weasel himself outta this one, and you guys can’t defend this trash even if you tried.
It’s also how you win, whether it should be or not.
Booty might be a corrupt sell-out, I don’t know. But anyone who wants to change the system to remove these sorts of issues is going to have to get into a position of power in order to do it and that means doing what it takes to get there. Anyone who doesn’t do that may be principled but they’re also never going to have any effect on anything.
I’d take Booty over Trump and it’s worth remembering that before shading the guy. So far as this next election is concerned, they’re all beauteous godlings so be they not Trump.
Of course. Sometimes we read in these threads, something like “But I’ll vote for Biden if he’s the nominee.” Duuh. Of course you will. Otherwise you’d be like the proverbial restaurant customer:Waiter: “Sorry, sir. We’re out of capers. But we can serve your veal piccata with a delicious olive salad that mimics caper flavor.” Customer: “Veal piccata without capers? Heaven forbid! Bring me your only other menu item then: what was it? Dog-shit sandwich garnished with horse piss.”
My only problem with Buttigieg is his electability. Between his lack of experience and homosexuality, I’m afraid a lot of “independent” voters will find reason not to vote for him.
It’s funny how in the purity test of frowning upon fundraisers and billionaire donors, all it’s actually achieved is allow two billionaires to join the race. Because Trump is sitting on a war chest of money so when candidates in the democratic primary are essentially disarming themselves you end up like Beto and Kamala — good grassroots support but no money to keep competing, the billionaire like Steyer and Bloomberg thinks “I can stop him”. Most working people can’t afford to constantly chuck in more money on ActBlue for a candidate every other week. But Steyer and Bloomberg aren’t dependent on small donors.
Mayor Pete is the most charismatic Dem candidate. Therefore, he’s the most likely candidate to beat Trump. Therefore, I don’t care if he takes money from Satan himself. Now get a new schtick.
Mayor Pete is the most charismatic Democratic candidate to white voters. Minority voters seem to be seeing something entirely different. That makes him LESS electable than other Democrats if that holds up.
Maybe. Election polls right now show Buttigieg weak against Trump. That could be name recognition. It could also reflect low turnout if he’s the nominee.
I’m positive on Buttigieg so I hope you’re right but I’ve got this nagging feeling that he might have a real minority problem in the general as well as the primaries. Partly due to being gay, partly due to his South Bend record.
Hey guys, just to let you know I recently turned water into wine. Now, if you’re going to sit there and ask me questions about the reality of me turning water into wine, well I got to go, we need to keep the status quo while appearing as if we’re going to change something. Oh crap, donors calling, can’t say anything else bye!