Buttigieg Ducks Under Pressure And Discloses McKinsey Connections
A hopeful Democratic Presidential candidate and currently serving Mayor to South Bend, Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg has divulged his accounts while working for the controversial McKinsey Company.
Buttigieg has been under pressure from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to show more transparency about his work history, to be fully trusted and considered as a solid presidential candidate.
News reports confirm that the American politician Buttigieg has finally revealed that his clients during his stint at McKinsey included Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Buttigieg worked with McKinsey straight out of graduate school before joining the U.S. military and later stepping into politics. He has elaborated that his work with the consulting firm included helping Canadian grocery chain Loblaws figure out how to cut prices, advising Best Buy on energy-efficient projects, and working on a report concerning energy efficiency for various U.S. agencies. The then-consultant also worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for the DOD, where he studied economic development and aided businesses in the region.
Buttigieg was counter-attacked by Warren when he asked her to disclose her tax returns. In retaliation, she pointed out how Buttigieg had shied away from showing transparency in his earlier portfolio of clients and also on how funding was coming so easy to him at the time of his campaigning in Iowa. Buttigieg has withheld information on the pretext of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) he had signed while working for the consulting firm but decided to disclose the names of his fundraisers to the press and public. Political analysts believe he might have to try to buy time.
On her part, Warren disclosed her own list of former corporate law clients and not let up her criticism against Buttigieg. The latter had initially given a vague timeline for the expiration of the NDA but seems to have caved in to pressure and let the names out.
McKinsey has an unpopular record of helping out Trump administration in detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants in the past. Somehow the attacks and counterblows have been more prominent between Warren and Buttigieg unlike Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. They are the other candidates at the top of the presidential hopeful lists and have largely stayed out of the scrum and fistfights.
Buttigieg has been under pressure from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to show more transparency about his work history, to be fully trusted and considered as a solid presidential candidate.
News reports confirm that the American politician Buttigieg has finally revealed that his clients during his stint at McKinsey included Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Buttigieg worked with McKinsey straight out of graduate school before joining the U.S. military and later stepping into politics. He has elaborated that his work with the consulting firm included helping Canadian grocery chain Loblaws figure out how to cut prices, advising Best Buy on energy-efficient projects, and working on a report concerning energy efficiency for various U.S. agencies. The then-consultant also worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for the DOD, where he studied economic development and aided businesses in the region.
Buttigieg was counter-attacked by Warren when he asked her to disclose her tax returns. In retaliation, she pointed out how Buttigieg had shied away from showing transparency in his earlier portfolio of clients and also on how funding was coming so easy to him at the time of his campaigning in Iowa. Buttigieg has withheld information on the pretext of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) he had signed while working for the consulting firm but decided to disclose the names of his fundraisers to the press and public. Political analysts believe he might have to try to buy time.
On her part, Warren disclosed her own list of former corporate law clients and not let up her criticism against Buttigieg. The latter had initially given a vague timeline for the expiration of the NDA but seems to have caved in to pressure and let the names out.
McKinsey has an unpopular record of helping out Trump administration in detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants in the past. Somehow the attacks and counterblows have been more prominent between Warren and Buttigieg unlike Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. They are the other candidates at the top of the presidential hopeful lists and have largely stayed out of the scrum and fistfights.
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