Pete Buttigieg becomes first openly gay
Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary
USA Today,
by
Nicholas Wu Savannah Behrmann
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/2/2021 2:26:13 PM
WASHINGTON – Pete Buttigieg was confirmed as Transportation Secretary Tuesday as the first openly gay Cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the Senate. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a Democratic presidential candidate, received overwhelming bipartisan support with a 86-13 vote. (Snip) The Department of Transportation distributes billions of dollars in federal highway funding and regulates aviation, railroads and busing. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and clean energy plan has proposed placing 500,000 charging stations along highways and changing federal vehicles to electric power. Biden also has signed an executive order requiring the wearing of face masks in airports
Reply 1 - Posted by:
deerejon 2/2/2021 2:30:46 PM (No. 682727)
WHO CARES...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
berthabutt 2/2/2021 2:31:13 PM (No. 682728)
The 'Pete' principle now in play.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 2/2/2021 2:32:02 PM (No. 682729)
So.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 2/2/2021 2:34:03 PM (No. 682731)
Uh... and Richard Grenell?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/2/2021 2:42:38 PM (No. 682739)
At long last, due attention will be paid to highway and bus station men's rooms.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
marbles 2/2/2021 2:43:51 PM (No. 682741)
The first this , the first that, what about competentcy ? When you're a dem that's the last thing that matters.
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Barack O’Bathhouse and Hillary Clinton didn’t make the list?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/2/2021 2:47:43 PM (No. 682748)
Wow! That is and will be his most impressive achievement. He's an empty suit with no idea how to run a lemonade stand, never mind the budget for national transportation. Obama 2.0 - signs of wonderous works everywhere; no results.
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Competence has never been a particular qualification for any cabinet position. Just sign the paper in front of you, read this speech to that group like its written, and do what you're told.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 2/2/2021 2:56:41 PM (No. 682757)
Oh so inclusive...gays, trannies, blacks, whites, ladies of the night but hey, NO conservatives....what's up with that?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TJ54 2/2/2021 2:57:39 PM (No. 682759)
After all, he is an expert at filling holes
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 2/2/2021 2:57:44 PM (No. 682760)
so being gay, or a man dressed in women's clothing is what qualifies a person for a job in the Jo Bi Deng administration.
Tells one a lot about the boss. (or who ever is behind the curtain.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Scribelus 2/2/2021 3:03:59 PM (No. 682770)
Buddy Giggles is just another of Joe Fraud's cackle of Fascisti.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/2/2021 3:04:24 PM (No. 682771)
It appears that the main requirement to be a member of Biden's Cabinet is being a "FIRST". Everyone on Biden's Cabinet is a first this or first that. How about having the first qualified person in the Biden administration to be qualified for their job? All that I have seen so far is a bunch of condescending elitists who have never worked in the private sector and have no idea how the real world works. Government and academic jobs do not prepare you to actually run things in real life.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/2/2021 3:08:16 PM (No. 682782)
Psychological problems are now a qualification for a government job.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
sciteach 2/2/2021 3:16:13 PM (No. 682789)
As if all the homosexual flags at our embassies were not enough.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
nhveritas 2/2/2021 3:17:22 PM (No. 682792)
Unfortunately, competence is what matters, not liberal intersectionality,
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/2/2021 3:24:21 PM (No. 682798)
Ah, progress. We should face Sodom and Gomorrah like events beginning in three, two, one.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
joseph1 2/2/2021 3:26:41 PM (No. 682801)
what a choice this dumbo does not have a clue concerning transportation
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/2/2021 3:35:13 PM (No. 682814)
Good for Butt-plug
Who cares.
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Sickening.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/2/2021 3:52:06 PM (No. 682838)
'Openly gay' means don't give a damn about your views of normalcy. When enough voters rebel against such cultural and values aggression it will matter. Until then grin and bear it!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 2/2/2021 3:56:44 PM (No. 682842)
The vote was 86 - 13. That means 36 so-called republicans voted for him. IIRC, none of Pres. Trump's nominees got any votes from the opposition. I thonk the favor should be returned, especially since Xiden stole the election.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
red1066 2/2/2021 3:58:22 PM (No. 682845)
I don't care what his sexual orientation maybe. It's his political views that are the problem.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/2/2021 4:20:04 PM (No. 682874)
I have said for decades that if I am having a bypass I want the best, most experienced heart surgeon, anesthesiologist and nursing staff available. I don't want a bunch of affirmative action medicos.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/2/2021 4:21:00 PM (No. 682875)
Hooray for gay, hooray for gay. Little Pete would be an unknown paper pusher somewhere if he didn't like men.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Edgelady 2/2/2021 4:21:04 PM (No. 682876)
Grenell doesn't count. He's gay, but not the right kind of gay, or something.....
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
G-Tom 2/2/2021 4:26:57 PM (No. 682883)
PUKE!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
navybrat 2/2/2021 4:47:11 PM (No. 682899)
And Joe Biden is the first president elected with dementia.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/2/2021 4:51:05 PM (No. 682906)
How many qualified people were passed over to get this clown in his position based on his sexual orientation?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
snapper451 2/2/2021 4:54:23 PM (No. 682908)
The age and the price of diversity. MLK would be saddened to think that all decisions now are based on the color of your skin and what you think you should have between your legs.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
sanspeur 2/2/2021 4:58:54 PM (No. 682913)
don’t scoff at this position .This handles a lot of security things , like air traffic controllers , ports .purchasing , flagging carriers are f all sorts .The wifey of turtle , whose family controls chicom shipping just in this post & ruined a lot of America first things .Ditto in nyc chuck cheese’s wife ran the entire city street & planning stuff , trying to turn us into bike paths not roads .There is a lot of $$$$ here .and power !!! quality of travel is impt .
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
LesUNo 2/2/2021 5:10:02 PM (No. 682921)
And his other qualifications???
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
downnout 2/2/2021 5:18:44 PM (No. 682936)
What in the hell does being gay have to do with being a Cabinet official? Heaven forbid we hire people based on competence, it’s more important to check the right boxes. I despise these people.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
winmag 2/2/2021 5:27:20 PM (No. 682941)
Secretary Petey Buttplug. Very impressive.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
mizzmac 2/2/2021 5:35:31 PM (No. 682946)
How AWESOME to make history solely because of what you like to put where. He must be so proud.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Historybuff 2/2/2021 5:48:24 PM (No. 682956)
Bet you a shiny dime we’ve had plenty of gay cabinet members before. We didn’t know or care.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ncva 2/2/2021 5:53:03 PM (No. 682960)
Other than being gay, his only other "qualification" for the job is proposing to his "husband" at O'Hare. Based on those two qualifications, the U.S. transportation system should be on its way to extinction in 3 -2 -1.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/2/2021 5:54:34 PM (No. 682963)
Butt-giggity!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
bamboozle 2/2/2021 5:56:12 PM (No. 682965)
After all, he did such a great job in South Bend
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
rochow 2/2/2021 6:11:13 PM (No. 682974)
It took 2 stupids to write this piece and neither one of them ever heard the name Grenell!!!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/2/2021 6:21:43 PM (No. 682976)
Is this a hate crime? Oprah Winfrey: "I call Mayor Pete Buttigieg ‘Buttabeep, Buttaboop'"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/1/oprah-winfrey-dem-candidates-i-call-pete-buttigieg/
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Vesicant 2/2/2021 6:39:08 PM (No. 682991)
His first directive will be that truck drivers, train engineers, and bus drivers have to wear chaps, learn the words to "YMCA," and send one person a week to his office for "personal consultations."
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Donna M 2/2/2021 6:42:20 PM (No. 682994)
DOT has a lot of security and transportation safety under it. Watch for a certain laxness in both developing. Traveling by rail or airplane, or living near same, just got a lot more dangerous.
3 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
walcb 2/2/2021 6:42:59 PM (No. 682995)
Another box checked in the meaningless list of nothingness.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/2/2021 7:59:54 PM (No. 683042)
Is every single position that gets filled by a gay person, a woman or a person of color going to be announced as an historic first??
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
David Key 2/2/2021 8:35:38 PM (No. 683077)
funny, but I seem to remember Trump appointing a openly gay man to a position as a secretary in his administration
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
DVC 2/2/2021 9:48:31 PM (No. 683109)
A totally disgusting person. And he's a hater.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
bobn.t 2/3/2021 3:11:43 PM (No. 683785)
Nothing of which to be proud.
A big F or G on forehead.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
broken01 2/3/2021 8:53:34 PM (No. 684136)
Wow he’s a homosexual. Who the frack cares!
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Qualifications? He once said he likes trains. And his hometown has a defunct automobile factory (Studebaker).