Last friday Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially dropped the "exploratory" from his Presidential Committee with the FEC.
He Raised boer 7 million for Q1 and made, in my opinion, a very amazing explanation and breakdown of how he got there
And, for those of us West Wing fans, wishing we had a Bartlett administration…. finally a #walkAndtalk
Today's announcement will be moved inside, because of weather, into the bustling Studebaker plant that, an iconic building/company that left South Bend in 1963...and send the town into years of finding a new identity and means to grow. The space was renovated into mixed-use building.
The building has recently been repurposed. It now anchors South Bend's Renaissance District and houses a mix of technology companies, including South Bend Code School and an Amazon Web Services company, a symbol -- Buttigieg is expected to say -- of how his leadership as mayor over the last eight years helped revitalize portions of the city.
he will be introduced by Mayors and his main message will be
The need for generational change in the country and the argument that he is an entirely different political figure at a time when the American people are looking for something different in their politics.
He has been smart with his money, keeping a small campaign team that will just expand at the end of the month, when besides opening offices in South Bend, will have a presence in Chicago because of the easy access to it's airport hub.
Buttigieg's committee has been shoestring for months. According to the Buttigieg aide, the committee currently has 32 people on staff and plans to get to 45 or 50 staffers by the end of the month.
That initially small staff has meant the mayor has spent very little of the $7 million his team raised in 2019's first fundraising quarter. According to the aide, Buttigieg's first quarter fundraising report will show he only has a burn rate of less than 10%, a number far smaller than other candidates, like Warren, whose campaign announced earlier this month her burn rate was more than 85%.
this will be livestreamed by CSPAN at 2pm ET….
while we wait… there is a lot of fun GIFs and Meme out there we could enjoy while we wait
I literally DIED with this #GeekAlert