New York Buzzes Over a Mayor Mulling a 2020 Bid (Buttigieg, Not de Blasio)

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New York Buzzes Over a Mayor Mulling a 2020 Bid (Buttigieg, Not de Blasio)
NY Times




Near the High Line in Manhattan, more than 250 people gathered at The Park restaurant last week to hear about a Democratic mayor’s long-shot bid for the presidency.

The New York City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, worked the crowd, boasting about the mayor’s accomplishments, and how he had done a “tremendous amount” to “create jobs” and move “the conversation nationally” to important issues.

But the mayor in question was not Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, population 8.6 million. It was Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., population 102,245. ...

“Mayor Pete is fresh, he’s untainted,” said Michael Zorek, 58, who attended a fund-raiser Friday for Mr. Buttigieg in Chelsea with his wife, Shelly Friedland, 53, a lawyer; the couple lives on the Upper West Side. “He has an entirely different story than any other politician in our lifetime.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/nyregion/pete-buttigieg-2020-de-blasio-mayor.html

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1. Thank you for posting.

Good story!