Where is Pete Buttigieg?
Washington Examiner
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The recent train derailment and hazardous chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, may be due partly to a mistake in federal Department of Transportation guidelines.
According to officials, the train’s cargo was mislabeled and lacked the “high hazardous waste” warning toxic chemicals such as vinyl chloride are supposed to carry.
BIDENFLATION IS NOT GOING AWAY
Unfortunately, neither people living near the crash who have been getting sick and seeing their animals die nor the wider public has been given much information by the DOT or its leader. The reason is that Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been elsewhere mouthing woke “equity” claptrap and thus is too busy to pay any attention to actual transportation problems since he first took office.
At a forum this week, Buttigieg spoke not a single word about the toxic disaster in Ohio. But he had lots to say about the need to throw white construction workers out of their jobs.
“We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you’ve got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don’t look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood,” Buttigieg said.
Does the nation really need white construction workers to be fired? Wouldn’t it be better if just one white transportation secretary were fired?
Buttigieg is notorious for wasting taxpayers’ time on fatuities such as “racist roads” and gender-inclusive pronouns while transportation infrastructure falls apart. A hyperambitious politician with almost no useful experience, he is desperate to shore up his frayed relations with black Democratic voters, the result of his racially divisive tenure as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
Hence his focus on anything but transportation, such as the rail strike that could have brought the nation’s economy to its knees but for Congress’s intervention, or, for another example, the recent collapse of air travel over Christmas and the Federal Aviation Administration’s subsequent computer malfunction — or the shipping crisis in U.S. ports.
If Buttigieg is serious about “equity,” he should resign and ask President Joe Biden to replace him with a black nominee. We are not keen on tokenism, but such a move would at least give the nation a better chance of competence at the DOT.