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Shaw Endorses Buttigieg in Democratic Presidential Primary

Pete Buttigieg | Sean Shaw | Politics

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, IN, is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sean Shaw was the Democratic nominee for Florida attorney general in 2018.

TAMPA – Sean Shaw has endorsed South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg in the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president.

“Today I am proud to endorse Mayor Pete Buttigieg for president of the United States,” Shaw said Monday (May 20). “Mayor Pete’s bold, progressive vision of the future, one where every American’s voice is heard clearly and equally, is precisely what this country needs. We have to renew our democratic system, secure health care for all, pass common sense gun safety reforms, and defend civil and equal rights. Mayor Pete is the Democratic Party’s best hope to move us forward and win the next era in American politics.”

Shaw served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2018, representing portions of Hillsborough County in and around Tampa that included Ybor City and Tampa Heights. He ran for state attorney general in 2018.

Buttigieg is one of 23 Democrats who have thus far announced presidential campaigns.

Buttigieg was first elected mayor in 2011 at only 29 years old, and re-elected in 2015 with 80 percent of the vote. He currently serves as the chair of “Automation and the Impacts on America’s Cities” task force at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The task force is examining how automation is shaping the economies of communities across America.

Buttigieg served as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve, and took an unpaid seven months leave during his mayoral term in 2014 for a deployment to Afghanistan. He earned the Joint Service Commendation Medal. for hi counter-terrorism work.

A Rhodes Scholar, Buttigieg studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University in Oxford, England, and holds a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard University. The son of educators, he was born in South Bend and grew up in the Northwest Side and North Shore Triangle. He graduated from St. Joseph High School in South Bend.

For information about Buttigieg, go to peteforamerica.com or facebook.com.

Photo shows Pete Buttigieg left, and Sean Shaw.

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