Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By Pete Buttigieg
Okay, this week's book is Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend Indiana's book. Ever since I heard of Mayor Pete, I have been slightly intrigued by him. Buttigieg is the current Mayor of South Bend Indiana who is running for president. He was born and raised in Indiana and is only in his mid thirties. He went to Harvard and then was a Rhodes Scholar, and while he campaigned for Obama he decided to serve his country by joining the Navy reserve. He then came home to South Bend and ran for Treasurer of the state of Indiana, when the whole Chrysler plant in Kokomo (my hubby's home town) was all going down. After losing the State Treasurer run he turned around and became the Mayor of South Bend at the age of twenty-nine years old. While being mayor he pulled the town out of essentially dying, with helping tear down abandoned houses and decreasing unemployment and fixing the sewers. When he wasn't fixing his hometown he did a tour in Afghanistan. When he came home after his tour and facing death, the Indiana mayor decided he wanted to be more true to himself, he was finally able to come out to his parents and to his beloved hometown that he is gay. When the information came out he won his next mayoral run my eighty percent of the votes cast.
Now with the 2020 election coming up, Mayor Pete has thrown his hat into the ring to become the next democratic president of the United States of America. Everyone I have talked to has told me that it would be a long shot, that he would make a great Vice president, but he's still young and has only ever been a Mayor, but honestly I don't care. Pete Buttigieg is the first person that I've been excited about since I was a senior in college and a young hopeful candidate came to good old BSU: Barack Obama. Barack Obama spoke about hope and trying to heal our nation. It wasn't that I liked Obama just because I wanted him to be the first African American president. And I don't like Buttigieg just because he could be the first gay president or even that he's a fellow Hoosior; I like the ideas he has.
So if you are as big of a fan of Mayor Pete, or you want to know more about him, I would definitely recommend reading this book. I don't normally dive into political books but I really wanted to know more about this guy.
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