What Does Pete Buttigieg Have against Hispanic Construction Workers?

His bean-counting is out of date.

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joins a rally ahead of the midterm elections in Henderson, Nev., November 7, 2022.

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Apparently getting a jump on Joe Biden’s DEI executive order, Pete Buttigieg urged a conference of county officials last week to make sure construction workers look like the communities where they work.

“We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color,” he said, “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.”

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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