Yesterday Pete Buttigieg was forced to admit that when he worked for
corporate consulting firm McKinsey, he worked to cut the "overhead" of up
to 1,000 jobs at Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield.

This follows Pete buckling Monday to Elizabeth Warren's pressure to
(finally) let reporters into his big-money fundraising events. And to
reveal his big-money fundraising "bundlers" who have included lobbyists
and corporate executives associated with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Merck,
Verizon, and Facebook.

Reporters are asking us how the public is responding to this news. Can you
tell us: Has your opinion of Pete Buttigieg changed this week?

[ [link removed] ][IMG][ [link removed] ]It’s gotten much worse.
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These revelations are clearly rattling Buttigieg, a 37-year old mayor who
lost his last two campaigns and never faced real scrutiny before. A
political reporter at [ [link removed] ]The Atlantic wrote:

In three years of covering Buttigieg, I’ve never seen him stumble as much
as he did in a brief press conference after an event last Friday night in
Waterloo, Iowa, where Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, had confronted
him, asking him why he didn’t just break the NDA [with McKinsey]. Battered
by rapid-fire questions from reporters about both McKinsey and his
fundraising, he was curt and unrepentant, coming across as squirmy if not
downright suspicious. On The Daily Show a few days later, Trevor Noah
compared him to a teenager pretending he’d done his homework and then
getting mad while trying to hide the evidence he hadn’t.

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The Atlantic also points out that Pete is changing his biography to duck
scrutiny:

In 2010, when he was running for Indiana state treasurer, he made his time
as a consultant central to his pitch. During his presidential run, as the
optics of McKinsey have changed, he’s actively tried to push that
experience to the margins.

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Pete was caught deceiving voters about his work to kill 1,000 jobs to help
profits at his Big Insurance client:

The Atlantic yesterday: "The work he did was mainly about, in
consultant-speak, reducing 'overhead expenditures'...but he said he
doesn’t believe that any of the work he did led to job cuts."

Former insurance exec Wendell Potter said today: "As a former insurance
exec I know what that work really entails, and it is devastating...I see
Pete describes his work there as just math. In a way, this is true. Blue
Cross Blue Shield Michigan had a math problem: profits were down and
needed to go up. That’s when firms...bring in 'whiz kids' like Pete to
decide how high to raise rates and how many jobs to cut." ([ [link removed] ]Share this
on Twitter.)

Buttigieg was caught today in a 2011 video saying: "I remember one client
organization that was a large insurance firm that had grown in such a way
that there was a great deal of duplication. Some people didn’t even know
what the people working for them were doing." ([ [link removed] ]Share this on Twitter.)

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week?

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