Ohio train derailment: Buttigieg pens
sharply worded letter to Norfolk Southern Railway
ABC News,
by
Matt Foster*
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/20/2023 10:11:19 AM
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has called out the rail operator at the center of a hazardous train derailment in Ohio. In a sharply worded, three-page letter sent Sunday to Norfolk Southern Railway president and CEO Alan Shaw, Buttigieg accused the Atlanta-based company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over safety -- a problematic ethos within the larger transportation industry that the secretary said has contributed to a number of derailments over the years. "The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials near East Palestine, Ohio, has upended the lives of numerous residents, many of whom continue to worry about
Woo woo...... the railroad gets that dreaded "strong letter to follow."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 2/20/2023 10:17:40 AM (No. 1407546)
I accuse Buttigieg of repeatedly prioritizing politics over citizens safety .
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/20/2023 10:29:34 AM (No. 1407557)
I accuse buttigigue of massive incompetence due to the overthrow of meritocracy in favor of intraparty fetish based promotion.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/20/2023 10:30:25 AM (No. 1407558)
You know what you can do, Pete, although I can't say what it is here. No one can bend over that far.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 2/20/2023 10:38:50 AM (No. 1407564)
We should ask Pete's wife, Chasten James Glezman Buttigieg, what he/she thinks. No need to talk about the 2 months paternity leave or toenail polish.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/20/2023 10:47:35 AM (No. 1407570)
This is the best ButtBoy can do, he doesn't know anything about anything except what he's told to say...by the Railroads that PAY a TON OF CASH to Democraps so they can do whatever they want, including wrecking peoples lives and walking away. This incident shows criminal INTENT and Massive Negligence. Is there anyone in Govt. willing to take them down? If not maybe the citizens damaged will!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/20/2023 10:50:23 AM (No. 1407573)
That strongly worded letter is bound to dispel the toxic cloud and bring all those dead animals back to life and reverse all those new cancers.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 2/20/2023 10:51:43 AM (No. 1407576)
Does he really think the Norfolk Southern wants to have their trains derail? They have lost millions of dollars worth of cargo and tied up strategic tracks for theirs and other railroads to move cargo. What an idiot! He needs to help find the cause of the derailment after he sends people to help with the cleanup and put the tracks and trains back up and running.
Afetr an intelligwnt investigation balame an be established.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/20/2023 10:55:36 AM (No. 1407586)
According to “anonymous sources,” the real reason Buttigieg was upset and wrote his “strong letter” was that he found out two of the tank cars that broke open contained K-Y jelly.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/20/2023 10:58:57 AM (No. 1407594)
If the letter doesn’t work, he can hit someone with his purse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/20/2023 10:59:13 AM (No. 1407595)
Golly! I can't decide which one is meaner and scarier - - Tough Tony or Powerful Petey.
They both scare the bejeezis out of me. I'm too a-scared to make a choice.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 2/20/2023 11:18:54 AM (No. 1407632)
Whoa, the NSRR is shakin' in their overhauls. Butt Pete writes (??), doubt it. He's not that bright. The NSRR is not going to change Butt Pete. Campaign contributions have taken care of that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 2/20/2023 11:19:58 AM (No. 1407636)
Build Back Better?
I'd like to ask little Petey boy how many of those disappearing trillions of dollars have gone towards rail infrastructure improvement. Train derailments are up across the board, but as soon as one is tragic enough to draw headlines, the one person in the administration who is most responsible denies responsibility and tries to blame the railroad. Oh yeah, and racism, beacuse racism. And don't pick on poor little Petey, he needs to stay home and play mommy and daddy and leave him alone you toxic homophobes!
Competence seems to be part of that whole white privilege and toxic masculinity crap. Obviously this administration wants no part of that! But hey, we're inclusive! Yay!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
billsv 2/20/2023 11:36:14 AM (No. 1407659)
An axle was on fire for 40 minutes before the crash. This on film. There are supposed to be heat sensors along the track to warn of this. Did they work? Was the train operator notified? Were they ignored if they were warned? Where is this investigation? We need this before going hyperbolic on Norfolk Southern Rsilway and sending strong memos.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/20/2023 11:47:15 AM (No. 1407670)
Do these morons even know how much they will be lampooned? Right, a 'strongly worded letter' will do the trick and the other clown over the week-end imploring the people to 'trust' the government. Words fail.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Indy8166 2/20/2023 11:53:31 AM (No. 1407684)
Oooooohhhhhh, a sharply worded letter. That takes care of that little problem. Mayor Pete probably needs another vacation now.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ahpinion 2/20/2023 12:41:10 PM (No. 1407725)
Oh goody, it took him 2 weeks and the threat of a Trump visit to spend the weekend to “issue a sharply worded letter”… that should make the people living there much better! He’s such a useless, inefficient, ignorant, grandstanding puppet…
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/20/2023 1:14:13 PM (No. 1407752)
Everything is now solved. The strongly worded letter has arrived.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/20/2023 1:23:51 PM (No. 1407766)
If Buttplug had nay testes he would have bypassed the post office and gone directly to the NSR CEO’s office. Apparently, Chasten keeps them in his purse.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 2/20/2023 2:00:37 PM (No. 1407784)
It promises took Petey an hour to write this 3 page letter, if he even wrote it. I wonder what he did the rest of the weekend.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 2/20/2023 2:01:55 PM (No. 1407786)
Darn spell check. it should be it probably above. Grrrr!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
red1066 2/20/2023 3:29:57 PM (No. 1407840)
Now the railroad is in trouble. Petey sent a strongly worded letter. That will show them whose boss.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Norway 2/20/2023 5:46:41 PM (No. 1407944)
Buttgig has been asleep at the wheel throughout his time at Trans--portation.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
or gate 2/20/2023 8:53:17 PM (No. 1408102)
Sure
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 2/21/2023 6:50:44 AM (No. 1408293)
Criticism from the folks who brought us the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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No - this is not satire. I hope Petey remembered a letter now requires 63¢ worth of postage.