Mayor Pete

[America Needs R'hllor]

Big oof

[America Needs R'hllor]

The TL has been finished

[America Needs R'hllor]

"Bombshell report on Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg", Wolf Blitzer was saying dramatically. "DeShawn Franklin, an African American whose house was entered in the middle of the night by South Bend police officers without a warrant in 2016, and who was then beaten and tasered, came forward to speak up about the Mayor's treatment of the case in a major press conference."

Anderson Cooper continued him. "He says, quote, 'the Mayor refused to meet me. He ignored me as some pest and sent his lawyers to offer me money so that I shut up. To our repeated requests to meet with him or a hight-ranking member of his administration and discuss the issue, we were given nothing. My civil rights were trampled, I was beaten and humiliated, my personal territory was invaded without warrant! And in the end, the courts went with him and gave me miserable 18$. Our criminal justice system is broken, and Pete Buttigieg will not repair it, because he's the cause, not the solution.' That's defintiely an indictment of the Governor..."

"Yes, and that's not all." Wolf Blitzer added ominously. "Another shadow from the Governor's past, former head of South Bend's Board of Public Safety Pat Cottrell, has come forward to speak out on another controversy. He resigned in protest after the then-Mayor determined that his new appointed Police Chief, Ron Teachman, did no wrongdoing when he failed to assist a fellow officer. Public advocacy groups expressed concern that the officer was African American."

"Cottrell, who tried to get the Mayor to release the report, said Buttigieg refused." Anderson Cooper continued. "He said that the Mayor showed 'no empathy and only cared about his appointment and furthering his career smoothly'. Cottrell added that he planned to vote for Buttigieg because of his policy, but that the Governor is 'clearly not the people's Mayor he tries to paint himself as- he's only his own Mayor'. Meanwhile, the officer who wasn't assisted by Teachman, Lt. David Newton, refused to comment. It's yet another scathing attack that is sure to hurt the Democratic nominee..."

"Oh, Christ." Governor Buttigieg's shoulders slumped. "I hoped this stupid controversy wouldn't come up... and especially not in that way. God damn it, what are we going to do?!"

"They're going to claim that the picture they tried to paint of you was validated: a young, elitist white Harvard student who gets all angry and flustered when he doesn't get his way and is the peak hypocrisity about minorities. And I'm just quoting a Republican colleague here... this can really hurt us with African Americans." Jen sighed. "They're going to press hard on it. But luckily, you have an opening- the townhall debate is in a week, and it's the perfect place to show empathy, calmness and the down-to-earth picture people crave for. This will be our chance to dispel this false image once and for all. We must take it."

I know this is a necro, but holy crap...this timeline is prophetic!

It's actually funny- all I had to do back then is to read the "controversies" section in his Wikipedia page and develop them a bit (what you quoted I just invented based on that). I think I was even actually warning that it could become an issue back when he was polling at 0%. It's surprising the media took so long to pick up on it