Wow. This is devastating.
The day before the South Carolina primary, South Bend Councilman Henry
Davis Jr. and South Bend Black Lives Matter leader Jorden Giger published
[ [link removed] ]an op-ed in the state's biggest newspaper. They say Pete Buttigieg's
tolerance of systemic racism has resulted in multiple "ticking time bombs"
in the courts that would help Trump (like the Comey letter in 2016) if
Pete were the nominee.
Check it out below -- and share [ [link removed] ]on Twitter and [ [link removed] ]on Facebook so voters
in upcoming states are warned. Also today, an [ [link removed] ]editorial in The Root
gave Elizabeth Warren's plans to address racism and inequality the highest
score of all of candidates, adding "Perhaps no candidate in history ever
had a more detailed, comprehensive plan than Elizabeth Warren’s." (Donate
to her [ [link removed] ]here.)
-- The PCCC Elections Team
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If black voters in SC support Pete Buttigieg, they will only re-elect
President Trump
BY HENRY DAVIS JR. AND JORDEN GIGER
Democratic voters everywhere need to see this warning -- not just in South
Carolina.
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Before South Carolina votes in Saturday’s Democratic Party primary, we
feel a duty -- as black leaders who know former South Bend, Indiana Mayor
Pete Buttigieg very well -- to issue a political warning to anyone who
cares about defeating President Donald Trump in 2020.
Simply put, if Buttigieg becomes the Democratic Party’s presidential
nominee, his candidacy will be damaged by at least three ticking legal
time bombs that are set to go off during the 2020 election -- all of which
will serve to help Trump depress black voter turnout and win re-election.
Voters deserve to know that there is a pending special prosecutor
investigation into the June 2019 death of Eric Logan, an unarmed black man
shot by a white South Bend police officer while walking to his mother’s
home from a family event. Buttigieg was still mayor when the shooting
occurred, and he was forced to leave the presidential campaign trail to
face the anger and anguish of our community. The Indiana attorney
general’s office says that the special prosecutor’s report on Logan’s
death will likely be released soon.
That represents the first ticking legal time bomb hovering over
Buttigieg’s campaign.
There is also a wide-ranging federal civil rights lawsuit into systematic
racism in the South Bend Police Department while Buttigieg was the city’s
mayor. Civil rights law gives plaintiffs broad discovery power to unearth
the racist behavior that plagued our community during Buttigieg’s two
terms leading South Bend -- and our former mayor may be among those
subpoenaed to give a deposition.
That represents the second ticking legal time bomb hovering over
Buttigieg’s campaign
And here is the third one that voters deserve to know about: the South
Bend City Council brought a pending lawsuit against Buttigieg to demand
the release of secret tapes revealing racist and criminal acts, including
white police officers plotting against the city’s first black police chief
in an attempt to get him fired.
This controversy has drawn national coverage: The New York Times, for
example, published an April 2019 article bearing the headline “Pete
Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.”
During the 2020 election President Trump will try to suppress the black
vote, possibly with help from the Russians. Now just imagine the field day
they will have as these Buttigieg-related lawsuits, depositions,
subpoenas, reports and other revelations become public throughout the 2020
campaign.
It could resemble the 2016 election furor over Hillary Clinton’s emails,
only on steroids. And the furor over the Buttigieg material will be far
more warranted, because the systemic racism Buttigieg appeared to tolerate
is real.
Before they vote, South Carolinians deserve to know that Buttigieg’s
problems with black voters will not go away anytime soon, and that these
problems exist for good reason.
Thanks for listening to our voices.
Henry Davis Jr. is serving his third term on the South Bend, Indiana City
Council. Jorden Giger is a school teacher and the leader of Black Lives
Matter South Bend.
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Dems can't afford another 2016.
Sound the alarm by sharing their op-ed [ [link removed] ]on Facebook and [ [link removed] ]on Twitter
-- and forward this to people you know who are considering voting for Pete
Buttigieg.
[ [link removed] ]And donate to power Elizabeth Warren's campaign here.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Elections Team
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