Tom Coale
@hocorising
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I tweet about #housing , #MDHousing , #MDPolitics , #Orioles , #Ravens and random pop culture.
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The Governor of Maryland won’t meet with the Mayor of Baltimore, but is tweeting about him?
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Young people: Joe Biden is boring
Fox News:
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Hey journalists - "luxury apartments" is a branding term.
You don't cover auto accidents by saying "a sleek new sports mobile with leather seats" ran the red light.
Don't do it with housing.
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Maryland’s response to omnicron seems to be “do your best not to need the hospital for the next month.”
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If a school received $5.1 billion for equity training, the impact would be so large even MTG would be a little less racist.
Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT?
Dodaro: CRT?
Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things
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The PHIMBY (public housing in my backyard)/YIMBY divide is either fake or a one-way conflict. I don’t know any housing advocates who wouldn’t welcome a robust public housing program.
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“We flew the plane. Unfortunately, we couldn’t land it.”
"Our administration didn't end well" -- Mike Pence to Hannity
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Big pulls from
@jenny_schuetz
’s book
- you can’t build a housing unit that costs less than $500/mo rent
- you need an annual income of $20k to afford $500/mo
- only 1/4 of low income families eligible for housing assistance receive it
- Min wage of $7.25/hr = $15k annual income
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The Washington Post’s decision not to endorse
@BrookeELierman
because “one party rule is bad, mmkay” is such an insult to Brooke’s work. She’s been one of the most substantive delegates in Annapolis since being elected in 2014. 1/4
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You got towels? Crazy coincidence - we have towels too!
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The word “we” has never carried so much weight.
Every MLK Day we are treated to a bevy of thinkpieces on how the only way to achieve MLK's dream is to embrace group redistributionism and racial discrimination. MLK may have made such arguments in 1968, but that simply isn't the dream or the pathway we celebrate him for.
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I need someone to tell the Maryland Vaccination Center that I’ve received my booster. I’m just not willing to answer their phone calls to tell them.
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I feel like Ledo’s Pizza has an under appreciated place in the Maryland food canon.
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I, for one, would like to thank
@tedcruz
for coming to Maryland and reminding the 6th Congressional District of what was at stake this election.
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“Can you believe Joe Biden accused me, an innocent MAGA Republican, of supporting political violence?”
"By the way, how is she doing lately?" -- Trump on Nancy Pelosi
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Good news for Maryland Senate Republicans - you can all fit in 2 booths at Chick & Ruth’s.
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I did not expect the next revolution to be started by folks who stopped going to Orioles games because Baltimore was “too dangerous”.
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Imagine being Wes Moore and having a former Governor narrate you doing your job while refusing to say your name.
Thank you to all the local, state, and federal personnel who worked tirelessly to clear the wreckage of the Key Bridge in order to fully reopen the channel and the Port of Baltimore.
Now we cannot let partisan gridlock stop further progress. All levels of government must work
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If you think beating Dan Cox is easy, may I remind you of the power of slightly discomforted white suburban voters.
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Then stop filming political commercials in combat gear, Old Governor.
Politics shouldn’t be total war. That’s why Washington is so broken. We can disagree without destroying the other side. We must change politics as usual, and that is why I’m running.
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For those outside of the state, this is the real person. Unscripted.
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Watching UMD professors testify against graduate student subsidized housing is so disappointing.
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Enjoy today, Maryland. It's probably the last day for the next three weeks that you will not be frustrated over the completely avoidable lag in counting mail-in ballots caused by Governor Hogan's veto of HB 862/SB 163.
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This is an important step. We can only start cleaning up the mess in Washington by restoring the public's trust. In the Senate, I will join the fight to pass this bill into law.
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Don’t contribute to the narrative that this debate is a manifestation of our politics. This is one man. Our country is bigger than him.
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If you welcome refugees, but don’t support more housing because the schools are too crowded, I would genuinely like to understand your position better than I do right now.
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How does anyone vote for Larry Hogan when he routinely says he doesn’t know how he would vote?
WATCH: Larry Hogan tries to lie about his support for Trump's SCOTUS nominees that overturned Roe.
Angela Alsobrooks isn't having it.
#MDsen
"I think he said how he would vote. He said, he thought they were incredible."
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No one honors the retirement of a relief pitcher who left the team 5 years ago better than the
@Orioles
fan base.
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Imagine typing all this nasty hateful stuff and then thinking “let’s see what Clip Art has to offer.”
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It is breathtakingly bold for Dan Cox to make puns with Wes Moore’s last name…
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Gov. Moore just reported that our state’s economy is lagging behind the rest of the country.
Seems like something someone could have told us in between articles about Larry Hogan’s popularity.
But sure yeah fine.
Opinion: Journalists must make sure they don’t allow Gov. Wes Moore’s personal appeal to get in the way of holding him accountable with their coverage
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I’m just a guy, standing in front of a Governor, asking for COVID infection data.
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I have three kids. I am not "well rested after the break". I am at work to rest.
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Housing is not fungible. Vacant housing in Baltimore City doesn't address housing affordability in central Maryland.
This is uninformed nonsense.
We already have more empty homes than unhoused people. The solution to homelessness is to make housing a human right for all.
#VPDebate
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Larry Hogan had 8 years to form the Republican Party into something else. He could have done so by getting laws passed that improved the lives of every day Marylanders. Instead, he chased the support of those who disdain government and prize the status quo.
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I normally keep my personal news for FB and Insta, but we have a 4th kid on the way.
The world can be a scary place, but I’ll say that many of you, often strangers, make me feel like it’s ok to bring another person here despite all my fears to the contrary.
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Great housing policy starts with the premise that developers are neither good nor evil but rather market participants that can be motivated towards preferred outcomes.
“Developers don’t care about housing affordability. They just want to make money!”
Okay? Welcome to capitalism. This is why we need to change the rules to make building inexpensive housing like apartments, townhouses, and starter homes more profitable than building McMansions.
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Done - Calvin Ball wins re-election in Howard County Executive race.
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I am struggling with the fact that the
@baltimoresun
had articles about grammatical errors in Healthy Holly, but zero coverage of the conditions under which Maryland prisoners are making masks. And tomorrow, someone is going to tell us about the Easter bunny being “essential”
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This essay by
@ClintSmithIII
in
@TheAtlantic
is thoughtful, compassionate, and ruthlessly critical of the manner in which we remember and memorialize collective sins. I can’t recommend it enough.
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There are approximately 25,000 more registered Democrats in Howard County than there were in 2014.
There are 5,000 less registered Republicans.
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For those wondering why millennials and Gen X are so keyed in on housing, imagine your parents bought something for $100. When you tried to buy it, it was $1,000. And then everyone said you were lazy because you didn’t buy the thing sooner.
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I wish local and national media would stop buying Larry Hogan’s “I wasn’t going to run but then like a million hundred people called me and asked me to run” narrative.
That did not happen.
He waited until the last second because he didn’t want to draw a credible MAGA opponent.
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You need to build luxury units to feed the luxury beast.
If you don’t feed the luxury beast, it eats the affordable units.
If you don’t let developers build new high end homes, the rich people who would have lived in them don’t just disappear.
Instead, they buy existing less-expensive homes in desirable neighborhoods and renovate them into luxury housing.
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"I'm really looking for the angle on how Larry Hogan polls well with Democrats. Can we write that story?"
- Every single newspaper editor
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“Emphasizing Oh in the National Anthem is unpatriotic” is my favorite of bad takes.
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Wes Moore will bring back the Red Line.
Dan Cox will bring back the…Christopher Columbus statue?
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Could a Maryland journalist ask Dan Cox these exact same questions?
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Over the past week, I've been working with
@yimbyaction
to bring their tremendous resources and organizing skills to Maryland. I'm happy to announce the creation of the first Maryland chapter -
@YimbyMD
. Please follow that account for more information about how to get involved!
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The victims died because someone couldn’t handle how they existed in this world. This is powerful.
“Therefore, we will be identifying the victims by how they identified themselves and how their families have loved and identified them.”
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Let's all agree not to take COVID-19 advice from a 32 year old Republican political operative named Aaron Ginn, deal?
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Here’s what you can expect if you speak out on
#housing
:
Men - accusations of corruption
Women - accusations of corruption, misogyny, personal threats, harassment, doxing, emails to your employer, comments about your children, comments about your appearance, etc. etc. etc.
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Did you know that
@baltbeat
distributes its paper in “Beat Boxes” that also serve as community resource pantries?
I don’t know why a journalist who made his money selling Baltimore’s tragedies fixated on them in his QTs, but I’ll be donating today.
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There is honor in all work.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says there’s a “real risk” Biden forgiving some student loan debt will help Democrats in the 2022 midterms:
“If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college … if you can get off the bong for a minute … it could drive up turnout.”
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There it is. Gov.
@iamwesmoore
putting $63M towards the construction of affordable rental housing. Secretary
@jacobrday
gets to hit the ground running.
#MDHousing
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Just sat in on a breakfast roundtable with
@iamwesmoore
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The idea that we have “enough
#housing
but not enough affordable housing” relies on the premise that everyone making the median income or higher is housing secure. That’s just not the case. It also ignores the existence of housing vouchers.
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We can, and should, outlaw this practice in Maryland by statute. Men and women experiencing homelessness are routinely flushed out of wooded areas with no other place to go. Their fragile tents are destroyed. They lose what little property they have. It’s shameful.
We condemn SCOTUS for further criminalizing homelessness in the Grant's Pass decision today.
Local governments are not providing enough homes for people who need them. Arresting people will not solve homelessness. We need more homes.
Full statement:
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Not now, Larry.
The Democratic party is dragging us in a far-left direction that America doesn’t want and can’t afford. Biden said he would govern from the center and unite the country, instead he caters to the far-left extremes of his party and flails from crisis to crisis.
#BetterPathForward
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Such an excellent, and empathetic, profile of those who profess liberal ideology, but provide the foundation for our conservative
#housing
laws.
@ConorDougherty
is one of my favorite writers on this subject, and this is a good example why.
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I know others have said it, but it really is remarkable how on point the
@BaltimoreBanner
has been on the Key Bridge collapse and recovery effort. Every angle is covered. I'm very glad to be a subscriber.
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People saying that a Biden win with a Republican Senate is still a loss have not lived the same four years I've just lived.
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It’s always fascinating to see whose background is scrutinized. It’s rarely someone who looks like me.
Wes Moore is a great Governor.
He served in the military at a time when few do the same.
This is one of the dumbest news stories I’ve ever seen.
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Breaking: Larry Hogan would endorse Donald Trump in the rain.
And in the dark. And on a train.
And in a car. And in a tree.
He will endorse him with a fox.
He will endorse him in a house.
He will endorse him here and there.
He will endorse him anywhere!
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Kinda wild that the only federal dollars we’re turning down are the ones that help people out of work.
And then citing states’ rights.
It’s too much.
Even President Biden has said that states have every right to do what’s best for our economies. I’m confident the courts will rule in favor of getting Marylanders back to work, supporting struggling small businesses, and continuing our economic recovery.
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WOW!
@iamwesmoore
names
@jacobrday
as Secretary of Housing and Community Development. What a fantastic pick!
#MDHousing
#MDPolitics
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We had to put our 14 year old black lab to sleep today. I wasn’t going to post about it, but my 5 year old, on her own, described death as “turning into love”.
It was beautiful and it helped me. I figured there may be someone else who could use it too.
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We’re about to enter “send money to long shot candidates in other states” season.
Remember -
1) your local elections matter more;
2) those long shot candidates are going to have plenty of money; and
3) money won’t change the electorate.
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Women are superheroes. My wife just created her third human life. Just amazing.
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Friends - I know you did everything you were supposed to do. You wore masks and didn’t take on unnecessary risks. We need to start lowering the stigma for catching COVID.
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Get 👏 them 👏 Gov
“My response is, I have no time for foolishness.”
@GovWesMoore
dismisses some Republicans who have tried to blame Baltimore’s bridge collapse on policies that encourage workplace diversity.
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“I don’t go to the city anymore because they refused to open the ‘$1,200 concert ticket express lane’”
Crowd flowing into the lots now is increasingly angry. “I paid $1200 for these tickets. Shame on Baltimore,” yelled one woman as she hustled across the lot. Her husband stayed with their car in line to park.
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Replacing huge parking lots next to sports complexes that are full less than 100 days per year with housing is good.
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Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back for turning away from a police officer.
BREAKING: Pro-Trump protestors have breached the Capitol.
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I can’t imagine spending eight years talking about lowering taxes and fees and then spend my last two months in office telling people to gamble on sports to fill state coffers.
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Here comes the 2024 Democratic Primary for Ben Cardin's seat in the US Senate.
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TFW you appear in *whatever is left of* Newsweek for making fun of Majorie Taylor Greene
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Dan Cox is going to spend all day working on his “Stop the Maryland Steal” banner.
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Kim K was never going to sniff Congress, but picking a fight with a Terp/Raven 2x Super Bowl winning all around nice guy should go down in the annals of Maryland politics as a remarkable own goal
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There are two deeply cynical takeaways from this:
1) If Democrats say something complementary about a Republican, they may end up in a commercial against their will; and
2) There are not similar quotes by Hogan about Democrats.
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We don’t have enough money to keep people housed.
We appear to have money to “refund” police budgets that were never defunded in the first place.
This is America.
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Allan Kittleman came to my house dressed as Santa, hugged my kids, and still tried to drag my name through the mud in an attempt to win an election. I hope this is the last time we see his name on a ballot.
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Doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to say that if Larry Hogan ran for President, he would lose the Maryland Republican Primary to Donald Trump.
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My wife: All I want for Mother’s Day is to sleep in until 8.
Me with three kids and a puppy at 7:33:
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This looks like people waiting for the host to call their name at a Ruby Tuesday’s
Maryland packed the house at Maralago last night to support Gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox. President Trump was on fire with his midterms speech; he currently has a 99pc win rate with his endorsed candidates.
@realdonaldtrump
@dancoxforgovernor
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Larry Hogan's confession that he would support Donald Trump if he were the 2024 Republican nominee for President demonstrates that he is slightly less of a joke than he was in 2020 when he voted for a dead person.
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I appreciate
@marylandmatters
providing a write-up of my career shift! There’s important work to be done in Annapolis and I’m excited to be a part of it!
That pun though…
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Dan Cox is relatively careful with his answers about Trump, January 6th, and election denialism.
His running mate is not.
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Waiting for my friends on the right to acknowledge that, in his first budget submitted to the General Assembly, Governor Moore included a tax cut for military retirees.
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Frederick County Executive Race Update:
Mike Hough's lead over Jessica Fitzwater down to 2,063 votes.
Fitzwater has outpaced Hough in mail-in ballots 14k to 5K. Many more to count.
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Everyone, please watch
#PlotAgainstAmerica
- it is the “frog in boiling water” metaphor that America needs.
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This is all you need for the undecided voter in your life.
We don’t need Larry Hogan installing new buttons at his Senate desk to avoid “yay” or “nay”
This is the moment Angela Alsobrooks ended Larry Hogan’s Senate campaign. She killed his entire fake independent, county over party narrative.
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Just saw a local Council-person post on FB about how land bought for $4 million could be sold for $8 million after entitlements were secured.
That’s you. You did that.
When you increase risk and narrow the path, you create arbitrage. Maybe don’t do that?
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The WaPo endorsement also ignores the broad tent of the Democratic Party that comes with deep divisions and disagreements. To suggest there won’t be deliberative decision-making bc everyone has the same suffix initial is embarrassingly shallow in its analysis. 3/4
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I had a hard time with the 2020 Pete Buttigieg that seemed to live in the “mealy mouthed” unity he rejects here.
I would enthusiastically vote for this version of Pete Buttigieg.
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