Before running for office, Buttigieg worked on the Buttigieg was valedictorian of the class of 2000 at Before graduating from college, Buttigieg was an investigative intern at After earning his Oxford degree, in 2007 Buttigieg became a consultant at the Chicago office of In 2011, as South Bend's mayor-elect, Buttigieg supported In 2012, after a federal investigation ruled that South Bend police had illegally recorded telephone calls of several officers, Buttigieg demoted police chief Darryl Boykins.Buttigieg has written that his "first serious mistake as mayor" came shortly after taking office in 2012, when he decided to ask for Boykins's resignation.

The Pete Channel is an unofficial media site for Mayor Pete Buttigieg, presidential candidate 2020. This expanded the existing South Bend Home Repair Pilot, which helps make available funds to assist residents with home repairs, through the use of $600,000 in city funding (double what the city had earlier pledged to the program) and $300,000 in Buttigieg had been arranging a deal under which the city's parks department would sell Elbel Golf Course to developers for $747,500.Buttigieg supported a proposed high-rise development in South Bend's East Bank neighborhoodIn September 2019, the city of South Bend finalized a long-anticipated agreement with St. Joseph County to jointly fund the county's $18 million share of the project to Beginning in August 2018, Buttigieg promoted the idea of moving the city's In 2019, South Bend launched Commuters Trust, a new During Buttigieg's tenure, Downtown South Bend saw roughly $200 million in private investment.In late September 2017, in his budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, Buttigieg sought Common Council approval to create the new position of Director of Public Safety, which would have oversight over the city's fire and police chiefs.In September 2018, South Bend sent roughly 20 members of its fire department's Swift Water Rescue Group to After a white South Bend police officer shot and killed Eric Logan, an African-American man, in June 2019, Buttigieg was drawn from his presidential campaign to focus on the emerging public reaction. Today in Hot Men in Uniform, we bring you former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg looking fly in his camo uniform. Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg hustled around Iowa during the weeks before the caucuses, holding more than 50 town halls in a frantic three-week period.Buttigieg wore the same outfit every day during his final Iowa push — a white shirt, blue tie and navy blue pants. Press question … You know, the one that got over six million dollars in … Known locally as "1,000 Properties in 1,000 Days", it is a project to repair or demolish blighted properties across South Bend.Buttigieg served for seven months in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, returning to the United States on September 23, 2014.In 2014, Buttigieg announced that he would seek a second term.In a new phase of the Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiative, South Bend partnered with the Notre Dame Clinical Law Center to provide free legal assistance to qualifying applicants wishing to acquire vacant lots and, with local nonprofits, to repair or construct homes and provide low-income home ownership assistance using South Bend HUD (In 2013, Buttigieg proposed a "Smart Streets" urban development program to improve South Bend's downtown area,Under Buttigieg, South Bend invested $50 million in the city's parks, many of which had been neglected during the preceding decades;By 2019, the city had seen $374 million in private investment for In January 2019, Buttigieg launched the South Bend Home Repair initiative. He is of Maltese and Scottish descent.Buttigieg graduated from St. Joseph High School in 2000, where he was president and valedictorian of his senior class. With a win here, Buttigieg could find himself an unlikely front-runner as primary season begins.