Buttigieg Campaign Removes Fundraiser Co-Host Tied to ICE Contracts

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In the closing days of the Iowa campaign, Pete Buttigieg told crowds of supporters and skeptics at town halls across the state that it was critical to the party’s chances in November that voters nominate someone with experience outside of the Washington bubble, or, as he told an audience in Indianola, Iowa, someone who lived “within jogging distance of the nearest cornfield.”

But Buttigieg’s apparent history-making victory in the Iowa caucuses was still up in the air when he departed the New Hampshire campaign trail for a high-dollar fundraiser in New York City on Wednesday, another event was being hosted by exactly the kind of Washington old-guard pillars that Buttigieg had criticized.

The fundraiser in Washington on Wednesday, billed as a “Foreign Policy Conversation in D.C.” on the invitation, is co-hosted by more than 50 of Buttigieg’s supporters and advisers, and includes the current and former heads of lobbying firms, military contractors and fossil fuel interests—the same kind of figures whose past campaign contributions to the former mayor’s campaign have come under attack in the past by rivals for the nomination.

Among the people initially announced as the event’s hosts: the former president of a big data firm that has made tens of millions in contracts from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; a former ambassador who made a fortune off of an oil deal with the Kurds that was possible, in part, because of his work crafting the Iraqi constitution; and a former lobbyist whose work included advocating for the repeal of Glass-Steagall.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/buttigieg-campaign-removes-fundraiser-co-host-tied-to-ice-contracts

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1. That's why Bernie is the only choice for the Democratic nominee that makes sense!!

Bernie has been consistent in his aggressive progressive agenda and we can count on Bernie to keep fighting for the working class and poor folks after President Sanders takes the oath of office!!


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Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
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2. Interesting!