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LisaLynne

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Tue Mar 11, 2014, 06:51 AM Mar 2014

Most Interesting Mayor you've Never Heard of... WaPo Article

Yes, of course he's a Dem. He is the mayor of my hometown and he was just deployed to Afghanistan. In like the military. You know, the military the Repugs are always talking about but very few have actually served in? The article isn't that great -- there's a lot more that could be discussed, but I think the Democratic party needs to start looking around to see who might be up and coming...

When Buttigieg was at Harvard, he participated in protests against the war in Iraq, and even penned a few lines of President Bush-inspired poetry...


He also thinks that if more elected officials had served or had family members in the military, we may have never had gone to war in Iraq at all.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/the-most-interesting-mayor-youve-never-heard-of/
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Most Interesting Mayor you've Never Heard of... WaPo Article (Original Post) LisaLynne Mar 2014 OP
Bring back the draft and we will curtail our war-mongering. Scuba Mar 2014 #1
Kick for the afternoon crowd. nt LisaLynne Mar 2014 #2
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