Daniel “What-i-gieg?” Buggigieg is the incumbent mayor of South Bend Indiana. He’s also the media’s flavor the the month among the roughly 225 Democrats running for the 2020 Presidential nod. <\/p>\n
Why? <\/p>\n
Is it the intersectional lottery – he’s a gay midwestern Democrat? Or is it his accomplishments as mayor of South Bend?<\/p>\n
It’s the lottery:<\/p>\n
\nWhile Chicago is notorious for its murder rate, in 2015, Buttigieg\u2019s South Bend actually topped Chicago\u2019s 16.4 homicides per 100,000 people with a homicide rate of 16.79 per 100,000 people. Those numbers put Mayor Pete Buttigieg\u2019s city on the list of the top 30 murder capitals in the country for the year.<\/p>\n
In January, three shootings in one week killed two teens and left a woman paralyzed from the waist down. In one summer week, the casualties included a 12 and a 13-year-old. Last year, a man shot 6 people when he opened fire on 50 partygoers in a house and was sentenced to 100 years in jail.<\/p>\n
By 2017, shootings had risen 20% on Mayor Buttigieg\u2019s watch. Rapes increased 27% and aggravated assaults rose from 183 in 2013, the year before Buttigieg took office, to a stunning 563 assaults.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to know which are flying faster, bullets in South Bend or dollars into Buttigieg\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
But then with Democrat politicians, effectiveness isn’t the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ability to divert the low-information voter base with a raft of hopey-changey unicorn piffle is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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