Pete Buttigieg is my least favorite candidate because he changed his entire governing philosophy in the same campaign in a matter of months. Nevertheless, I have to give a lot of credit to him for doing the right thing. A woman was about to be sexually assaulted by three guys outside a bar and he came to her rescue and made them back off. By the way, this came to be known publicly without Pete or his campaign saying a word about it.
Nicole Cliffe is a popular left-wing Twitter personality and writer known for founding the website The Toast and, in part, for charitable giving. On Friday, it surfaced that she donated the maximum amount possible as an individual to Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign. This resulted in some confusion, given that Cliffe is critical of moderate left and centrist positions and since she's a supporter of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Buttigieg has positioned himself as a centrist in a strikingly far left pack of Democratic candidates. He is a frequent target of leftist ire online.
She told the same anecdote to the Boston Globe, who ran it in a story about Buttigieg's classmates at Harvard. Cliffe told the Globe she knew Buttigieg in college because she once dated one of his roommates and that he stepped in when a group of men confronted her at a bar."
"He did just did it very quietly and with great ease," she told the Globe in May 2019.
. Whether a person likes him or not ( I am not a big fan and will not vote for him in the primary ) , that was a very courageous act and it deserves our commendation.
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2019 · 1:41:38 AM +00:00 · Dem
My goal was to write something positive about Pete Buttigieg because he deserves it from this story. I will be very disappointed if this turns into something much broader and conflicts from outside of the major topic of this diary are brought in here. It would mean that the purpose for the diary was defeated. My comment did not get published — internet issues. But it is better because it avoids extraneous conflict, extraneous to this diary.
I hope almost all of us can focus on what we agree on: Pete Buttigieg did something great and courageous and praiseworthy. I will be grateful to all who who help us stay focused on the topic of the diary: Pete Buttigieg’s brave and courageous act of saving this woman from being assaulted by 3 guys. Please! Thank you !