Thread by @SnowflakeSnark

I wrote this when I first heard about @PeteButtigieg but have never shared it on Twitter. I’d like to leave you with it for 2019:

“He’s only a Mayor.”

“He lacks experience.”

When decisions are handed down from federal and state governments, Pete Buttigieg is the guy...

on the ground implementing them and having to still look his constituents in the face when he gets coffee. There is no harder job. Pete has had to deal with the real-world fallout from those decisions and still be accountable. Remember what accountability looks like?...

I’m sure you miss it. I know you do too. He’s had to face all the consequences of those decisions, whether he created the policies or was shoved into them by another level of government. Who better to steward formulation of good policy at the top than someone who knows...

how it impacts the bottom? Someone who sees policy play out in his friends’ and neighbors’ every day lives?

Cities are microcosms of our country. They are hit by policies related to trade, jobs issues, institutional flaws with regard to race and gender bias, schools,...

religious freedoms, speech freedoms, safety and security, etc. Your constituents can easily hold you accountable by marching up in your office - which Pete’s constituents have done many times. And he’s listens when they do. He truly listens. ...

South Bend constituents agree and I’ve seen it in his actions time and time again. South Bend doesn’t have a City Manager, so his post is not purely a leadership one - he’s had to be hands-on at every turn.

The game of politics is a game of showmanship and pulling levers for...

political mavericks but, for Pete, it’s about authenticity, honesty, and accountability. Being a good leader is defined by *listening* to your people and finding the right thing to do by them - while being able to convince the majority that they also want to do the right thing...

It’s a president who understands how valuable our democracy is and respects it. A president who knows it’s not his job to legislate, but, instead, to set the agenda and rally the public for widespread support of policies that will begin to heal our country and...

move us forward again. That having functioning, democratic institutions are paramount to everything else and cannot continue to survive nakedly politically-motivated abuse.

That public servants are there to serve THE PEOPLE. And that’s Pete’s #1 priority. ❤️