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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,589 posts)
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 03:01 PM Mar 2023

Buttigieg knocks 'East Coast elite' over criticism of East Palestine train derailment response

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at Republican criticism over his response to the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, blasting his critics as “card-carrying members of the East Coast elite.”

“It’s really rich to see some of these folks — the former president, these Fox hosts — who are literally lifelong card-carrying members of the East Coast elite, whose top economic policy priority has always been tax cuts for the wealthy, and who wouldn’t know their way around a T.J. Maxx if their life depended on it, to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about the forgotten middle of the country,” Buttigieg said in an interview with CNN.

Buttigieg has come under fire for a series of transportation woes, most recently the derailment in Ohio, which has caused mounting environmental and public health problems.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) became one of the latest Republicans to pile on Buttigieg late last week, arguing the cabinet official was “not ready for the responsibility he has.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has called for Buttigieg’s resignation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/buttigieg-knocks-east-coast-elite-over-criticism-of-east-palestine-train-derailment-response/ar-AA18fDRH

But RWNJs say we're the 'East Coast Elite'.


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Trenzalore

(2,575 posts)
5. Biden and Buttigieg need to say that if you deregulate safety for 40 years
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 03:35 PM
Mar 2023

Bad things are going to happen.

They need to say that over and over again. Should be the answer to every question the press poses to them.

lame54

(39,195 posts)
6. Enough of that...
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 03:56 PM
Mar 2023

All we are getting is the back and forth

This administration needs to get a handle on this

Trenzalore

(2,575 posts)
7. Yes, reversing deregulation in a week
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 03:59 PM
Mar 2023

Biden is not a dictator. The process to regulate is purposely slow and the train companies view derailments as a cost of doing business.

lame54

(39,195 posts)
8. You're right. They're doing a bang up job...
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 04:03 PM
Mar 2023

The optics couldn't be better

This won't bite them in the ass at all

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