OK, everyone – we’ve had enough at this point. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finally traveled to East Palestine, Ohio, after almost three weeks of inaction on the railroad derailment and subsequent catastrophic chemical spill there.
While on the ground, and wearing dress shoes, Mayor Pete gave platitudes about the reason he had not traveled there earlier, and failed to address why his boss, President Biden, took the time to fly to Ukraine rather than visiting the residents impacted by the derailment.
Buttigieg walked away from a reporter asking about his delay in traveling to the area, leaving his press secretary to rescue him, who in turn refused to answer the reporter’s questions, instead calling them “aggressive.”
This was at least an improvement from the transportation secretary’s media dodge outside his home in Washington the night before, where he invoked “personal time” to avoid answering similar questions about his weeks-long refusal to visit the site of the spill.
Mayor Pete’s taking personal time and ignoring basic media questions around a transportation problem of national consequence is nothing new. A year-and-a-half ago, he took two months of paternity leave during a major supply chain and shipping crisis. When questioned on being MIA at a critical time for his department, Buttigieg sidestepped the issue and went on liberal television shows to defend his long absence as simply another form of “work.”
And then there was the infamous nationwide grounding of planes ordered by Mayor Pete’s Federal Aviation Administration in November following a computer glitch, shortly after he vacationed in Portugal, focusing instead on policing non-woke terminology in our aviation system instead of fixing the problem.
Felchie-boy has shown his capabilities….
He also demonstrated the reality of his failed presidential campaign!