Team Buttigieg fires back at Warren...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

Always good to know there's a rapid response team available.

[highplainsdem]

1. Good response.

[crazytown]

16. Wow. Talk about false equivalence.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=370928

You really don't like Warren that much.

[blm]

22. They WANT Warren to be seen as a deceitful crook

because her genuine goodness can’t be anywhere NEAR as genuine and good as their preferred candidate.

Sad and wrongheaded, IMO. Kind of evil, too.

[Cha]

23. What is it with you and your "kinda evil" insults?

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Someone doesn't like EW so they're "kinda evil"?

And, you have no idea what "they want"...

They WANT Warren to be seen as a deceitful crook

[blm]

24. I know that shoe doesn't fit you, but, it fits some of

those who post against Warren - a genuinely good person - hoping a smear sticks.

That is kind of evil.

You don’t think it is. I do.

[Cha]

25. Of course, I disagree.. Biden gets much uglier posts

against him.. and I don't go around saying they're "kinda evil".

I don't like it but I would never accuse them of that.

[redqueen]

2. That didn't take long!

Warren may have made a mistake with that barb.

[BootinUp]

8. Pretty hard to get Pete over a barrel. nt

[msongs]

3. maybe these ppl should just ignore pot shots nt

[still_one]

27. +++. They won't though

[SaschaHM]

4. Didn't she release a list of her corporate clients though?

This seems like a terrible road to go down. I'd love to see how much Liz made in those years.

Let's not pretend that it's even equivalent to knowing who is funding Pete's campaign and what he is saying at those fundraisers.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama disclosed their bundlers. Every candidate should follow their lead.

Buttigieg initially did, but he stopped doing so in April of this year. Harris updated hers every quarter.

[brooklynite]

15. You know what he says at his fundraisers? Same thing Warren said at hers...

Warren did plenty of events with high dollar Wall Street types (I attended some) and they were no different. Candidates at these events give a variation of the standard stump speech, something slightly varied based on the demographics of the audience (I was one at a lunch with VP Biden which veered into mediterranean politics since the audience was largely Greek-American). They also answer questions on broad policy issues or political strategies. The people who attend aren't there to cut deals, and $2800 doesn't buy any influence, even from the richest billionaire.

[SaschaHM]

20. Sure he does.

If I'm trying to win a primary though, I'm going to repeatedly ask why a 37 yr old mayor that is a donor favorite hasn't updated his list of bundlers since April and hasn't opened his fundraisers to the press. I also wouldn't be surprised if everyone also piled on like they did in regards to Warren's MFA plan.

It's up to his campaign if they want to keep that line of attack.

The secrecy around the secret is often deadlier than the secret. There's no need for deflection. Just say no and let that be it. Liz did.

[Celerity]

5. How Elizabeth Warren Raised Big Money Before She Denounced Big Money

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287370720#post5

[blm]

6. Warren's released 10yrs of returns. 5 from before she became senator.

Ms Smith is reaching. And she likely doesn’t want Warren’s transparency because she doesn’t want her candidate to be then obliged to produce some records they stopped revealing in April.

[SaschaHM]

7. Not to mention, we know who Warren worked for during her corporate years.

The same can't be said for Buttigieg's years due to the whole NDA situation.

[George II]

10. She became a Senator in January 2013, about seven years ago. A lot of years are missing....

...prior to 2010.

[blm]

18. She released tax records from 2008 on. Why is that problematic or

considered to be ‘hiding’ her taxes? That’s 10yrs of taxes. And every client she consulted with based on her expertise in bankruptcy law is known.

If you have reasons to believe she is a deceitful crook, please share them.

[pnwmom]

9. This makes no sense. She's released 11 years of tax returns and

he has released 10 years, so they're comparable.

There's no reason for her to release decades of returns, dating back to when she was a private citizen with no connections to politics.

Who keeps returns for decades? Even the government doesn't keep them forever.

[Celerity]

11. Lis Smith is awesome, she was President Obama's rapid response director in 2012

https://ballotpedia.org/Lis_Smith

Lis Smith began working on campaigns shortly after graduating from Dartmouth College. She was a field representative in South Dakota for then-Sen. Tom Daschle's unsuccessful re-election campaign in 2004 and press secretary for Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo.) first campaign in 2006.

In 2012, Smith was the rapid response director for Barack Obama's (D) presidential campaign. During the campaign, Forbes considered her one of "the essential people to follow on Twitter," saying:

“The Obama campaign’s director of rapid response, Lis Smith, is not afraid to take the gloves off on Twitter. She uses her feed to, well, rapidly respond to the news. Smith also gets points for interacting. She often mentions others in her tweets and sometimes gets into multiple tweet disputes with people she disagrees with, which are always fun to watch. ”

The New York Times noted that Smith's rapid response tweets "were a big reason that the campaign was able to define Mitt Romney before he could define himself."

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Five Essential Obama Campaign Twitter Follows


https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkantrowitz/2012/08/28/five-essential-obama-campaign-twitter-follows/#1346645757da

[crazytown]

12. Lis Smith has got some nerve.

Ten years of tax returns and all Warren's corporate work is her campaign site.

Tax Returns: https://elizabethwarren.com/tax-returns/
Corporate Advisories: https://elizabethwarren.com/legal-work/#expert

How are payments more than 10 years old, comparable to donations received by Pete this year? In what conceivable would such payment's influence Warren's exercise of the presidency?

If Buttigieg has received outsized contributions, sourced back to Private Equity firms, that should be on the record.

[jezebel321]

13. Even Bakari Sellers (no big fan of Buttigieg) calls Warren's attack trash

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Link to tweet

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[BeyondGeography]

14. Mr. McKinsey hides behind his NDA and lectures on transparency

Sure, Pete.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

19. +1

Instead, in some more recent interviews, Mr. Buttigieg has sought to play down his McKinsey years, telling one reporter, “It’s not something that I think is essential in my story.”

But that is inconsistent with the manner in which Mr. Buttigieg has chosen to present himself to voters, as a candidate with roots in the private sector. Those three years at McKinsey represent Mr. Buttigieg’s only substantial claim on such experience.

The McKinsey experience also looms large because Mr. Buttigieg is running on a short résumé. Those three years account for fully 20 percent of his post-college career.

The Times reported this week that the consulting firm has advised the Trump administration on the logistics of its cruel crackdown on immigration. McKinsey also has offered its services as a consultant to brutal and corrupt governments and state-owned enterprises in other countries, including China, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

[Lexee]

17. I like them both. She was talking about now, Buttigeig went after her for years ago.

Not a good come back. Like going after HRC's speaking notes.

[SaschaHM]

21. It's bad deflection.

Pete's bundlers weren't even on my radar until this off the wall response.

Sometimes just saying "No" or ignoring the "attack" is the best option. Don't make the main subject a topic of discussion. I don't see why his campaign thinks it remotely benefits him to have this become a multi day story since the Warren campaign, or the candidate herself, is sure to respond and this is no doubt going to come up in the debates now.

[TidalWave46]

26. Look like some fair blows to me.

Let’s get it on!