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“In 2000, Buttigieg praised Sanders for identifying as a socialist, especially “in a country where Communism is still the dirtiest of ideological dirty words, in a climate where...liberalism is considered radical, & Socialism...(is) confused w/ Communism.” thecut.com/amp/2019/03/ev…
“Sanders’ positions on many difficult issues are commendable, but his real impact has been as a reaction to the cynical climate which threatens the effectiveness of the democratic system...”
He loves Bernie Sanders.
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“To fund his DNC bid, Buttigieg created a political committee called “Pete for DNC” and raised more than $548,000...Top contributors include...Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox ($33,000) and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes ($5,000)...”
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"The experience influenced Buttigieg’s formation of SBStat, a data-driven model of troubleshooting city services informed by Baltimore’s CitiStat...
"Working at McKinsey (in Chicago), Buttigieg said, 'I began to understand the concept of data structure in ways that really mattered later for how I approach campaigns and governing.'"
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"During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, telecoms started buying up railroad rights-of-way across the country, and dirt beneath the tracks in South Bend soon ensconced the densest concentration of fiber-optic cables in the country."
"A local entrepreneur & Notre Dame grad Kevin Smith saw that value & bought the old train station, on the other side of the tracks from Building 84...
...He turned it leasing space to telecom and cloud services companies that benefit from the millisecond efficiency gains of being close to a fat internet pipe."
